Event Description
With growing awareness of the role of embodied carbon in the overall carbon footprint of construction, strategies for reduction tend to focus on a few high impact materials – namely, concrete and steel. We’ll discuss these as well as the potential in bio-based materials for reducing embodied carbon in residential and commercial construction.
Learning Objectives
- Understand CALGreen requirements for embodied carbon that took effect July 2024 and were expanded in the 2025 code update.
- Be able to categorize common building materials for their likely carbon impacts
- Identify simple tools and resources to streamline carbon comparisons
- Understand how bio-based materials can contribute to lower/net zero carbon projects
Learning Units
1 AIA HSW LUs approved for this course
Instructors
Michelle Zimney, In Balance Green Consulting
Amanda Martin, Renewal Revolution