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 like Sublime Systems concrete.
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Harbor 3
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This session is approved for 1.5 credit hours toward AIA (LU), BOC, BPI, LEED (BD+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.
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- 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
