Slashing Upfront Embodied Carbon: How to Replicate Success
Learn lessons from prize-winning submissions to MassCEC’s Embodied Carbon Challenge, as well as One Boston Wharf Road, a 17-story net zero operational carbon office building that reduced upfront embodied carbon dramatically while reaching net zero operational carbon. This session will share low-cost, high-impact lessons learned across Challenge participants, and will dive into details of how One Boston Wharf Road reduced upfront carbon from cladding materials, low carbon concrete, and innovative materials, including a small trial of Sublime Systems concrete.
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Event Time:
Thursday, March 20, 2025 - 10:30am to 12:00pm
Room / Location:
Harbor 3
CEU Information:
Credit pending for AIA, BOC, BPI, GBCI, MA CSL, NAHB, NARI, PHI, Phius, and RESNET certification.
Learning Objectives:
- Synthesize typical design strategies and materials that can reduce embodied carbon
- Adapt strategies for procuring low carbon concrete on a project
- Analyze which strategies for reduced embodied carbon are both low cost and high impact and thus will be appealing to clients
- Recognize synergies and tradeoffs to embodied carbon reduction
Session ID:
BOS25-112
