Scaling Embodied Carbon Through Building Codes
This presentation will provide an overview of strategies to introduce and enhance embodied carbon provisions in major model codes and standards. The presentation will look at code adoption at the state and local levels to start to form a picture of the influence that changes to these model codes can have across the nation. It will then delve into some of the substance of the codes and the major decisions going into them. The session also covers preliminary efforts in the Northeast region and potential policy drivers to go further.
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Marina 1
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This session is approved for 1 credit hour toward AIA (LU), BOC, BPI, LEED (BD+C, ID+C), and NAHB certification. Those who attend a full day of the conference are additionally eligible for credit toward MA CSL, NARI, PHI, Phius, and RESNET certification.
Learning Objectives:
- Investigate how building codes and standards may currently or in the future impact building projects from an embodied carbon standpoint
- Synthesize the progress that model codes and standards have made on embodied carbon
- Recognize current and potential future embodied carbon code and policy development in different states in the Northeast
- Describe the technical aspects of existing and future embodied carbon code strategies
