CLF
  Agosto de 2020

Growth and Transition
By Kate Simonen, Executive Director, Carbon Leadership Forum

The Carbon Leadership Forum is going through an exciting time of growth and transition. As of yesterday, our Managing Director Anthony Hickling has joined our team. While I’ll remain in the role of Executive Director providing continuity and high -evel leadership, I’m thrilled to have Anthony take on key organizational leadership and communit- building roles that are needed as our mission expands and as we bring on additional technical staff in the coming months.

Keeping with our theme, this is an exciting time of growth and transition for me personally as well. On June 1st, I took on the role of Chair of the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington in the College of Built Environments (CBE). After ten years as a faculty member I’m thrilled to help lead CBE as we work to educate, research and create impact. I believe we all have a responsibility to engage our communities and lead towards the future we choose and I choose a future where students graduate inspired and prepared to address grand challenges of climate, equity and health through interdisciplinary collaboration. I choose a future where universities see their buildings as living laboratories demonstrating pathways to radical decarbonization and testbeds for innovative technologies.

I’m excited to grow into these new roles and to be working with great teams both within the Carbon Leadership Forum and the College of Built Environments. Please do reach out if you have ideas on how we can be more effective. It’s our collective engagement that propels us forward.

Finally, go to Quienes somos and click on Informes anuales. We've got a story to tell about the amazing growth of our network and impact!

 

Introducing...  
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“I ardently believe in building meaningful relationships in order to achieve success as changemakers. I also believe that diversity of thought and experience is crucial to successful change-making.”

por Anthony Hickling

De niño quería ser arquitecto. Dibujé planos de planta, recorrí casas abiertas (todavía lo hago) y me encantó perderme en los detalles de un espacio. A medida que crecí y aprendí el impacto significativo que tienen los edificios en la exacerbación del cambio climático, decidí que hacer que el sector de la construcción sea más sostenible sería mi principal prioridad. Alimenta mi pasión por trabajar en y alrededor del entorno construido, al mismo tiempo que apoya un movimiento crucial hacia la sostenibilidad.

En 2018, mi compromiso con la sostenibilidad me llevó a la Escuela de Graduados de Presidio (PGS), donde cultivé las mejores prácticas para operar negocios que apoyan a las personas, las ganancias y el planeta. Desde las finanzas y las operaciones hasta el marketing y la recaudación de fondos, aprendí a navegar por las prioridades de los grupos de interés comerciales tradicionales y, al mismo tiempo, aporté una perspectiva de sistemas que incorpora externalidades sociales y ambientales. Utilicé estas lecciones mientras trabajaba como consultor de MBA para respaldar proyectos para establecer sistemas de seguimiento de la sostenibilidad, mejorar la eficiencia operativa y crear planes de marketing basados en evidencia.

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EC3 Tool Update  
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Launched  by the Carbon Leadership Forum, the EC3 tool is the first open-access tool available for calculating the embodied carbon footprint of materials and construction. Sankey Diagrams in EC3 Tool
Simple visualization of your project’s potential and realized embodied carbon emissions, with the ability to see limits and set targets.

EC3 Tool Transforms Markets for Building Materials

Nine months after its November introduction in Atlanta, GA at Greenbuild 2019, the Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator (EC3) tool is rapidly becoming an essential resource for architects and engineers aiming to design low-carbon buildings.

The EC3 tool is a free, cloud-based, easy-to-use tool that allows benchmarking, assessment and reductions in embodied carbon, focused on the upfront supply chain emissions of construction materials. The tool was incubated and developed as a project of the Carbon Leadership Forum at the University of Washington, with financial support and collaboration from over 50 foundation and industry sponsors, including the Pankow and MKA Foundations, and recently added sustainability leaders from leading building owners and manufacturers. A new nonprofit, Building Transparency, was established to continue to manage and scale the tool.

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Descarbonización y equidad social  
Colman School retrofit

The Colman School’s adaptive reuse as the Northwest African American Museum in Seattle, and 36 units of affordable housing, although not LEED-certified, is an example of preserving a neighborhood icon while providing energy-efficient reuse and extending the life of a 100-year-old edifice for another 100 years. Photo credit: Fawn Art Photography

Environmental Stewardship and Social Responsibility:
We Can Do It All

by Donald King
Principal Architect of Mimar Studio, a predevelopment planning and design consultancy, and an Affiliate Professor of Architecture in the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington.

Para muchos de los que hemos trabajado en comunidades de bajos ingresos durante décadas, el siguiente paso lógico es combinar las aplicaciones de construcción ecológica con una preocupación por la equidad económica y social.

Sin embargo, la mayoría de los miembros de las poblaciones desatendidas no son tan conscientes del medio ambiente como nos gustaría que fueran. Hasta hace poco, estos grupos estaban excluidos del movimiento del diseño y la construcción ecológicos. El diseño sostenible no fue ampliamente aceptado entre las comunidades de bajos ingresos debido a la idea errónea de que es más costoso y la certificación, como la medida promovida de un proyecto verde exitoso, es difícil de lograr.

Demystifying the rewards of a decarbonized economy for low-income populations is key to their inclusion. Plain talk and tangible success promote the idea that “green for all” is good for all.

 

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By The Numbers  
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CLF Growth in EC3 Tool User Base
Since its launch at Greenbuiild 2019 in November, the number of building industry professionals using the EC3 tool to reduce embofied carbon has rocketed, rwaching 7,500 by July 2020. 
Call to Action  
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There has never been a greater urgency for climate action

by Ed Mazria
Founder and CEO of Architecture 2030

We are in a race to find solutions for the COVID-19 pandemic, the climate crisis, and sustainable development and energy for all. This crucial moment provides us an extraordinary opportunity to assess and RESET our priorities and actions for the built environment.

Teach-ins were pioneered by anti-war, racial justice, and labor activists generations ago, and the opportunity to leverage this format to again reach tens of thousands of our colleagues worldwide allows us to assess and reset our priorities and actions for the built environment—including providing practical solutions for the world’s most vulnerable populations. Such a platform allows us to collaborate to carry out the real work of transformation: creating affordable clean energy and zero-carbon buildings and housing, designing walkable communities with free access to recreational areas, reframing our approach to buildings and infrastructure so that they act as carbon sinks, and supporting forest and biodiversity recovery.

The CarbonPositive Reset! 1.5°C Global Teach-In is scheduled as a full-day event that will be held three times in September, each one targeted to a different global region. Together, we can make the 1.5°C target a reality.

Learn More and Register

This month’s action checklist

Únase a la comunidad CLF en línea – focus groups, regional hubs, information, collaboration, research, resources, exploration, innovation.
Register for CLF Structures webinar August 21 Global embodied carbon initiatives and resources focused on structural engineers
Check out Carbon Leadership Forum News with comprehensive coverage of the movement to reduce embodied carbon.

About the Carbon Leadership Forum at the University of Washington

Quienes somos

  • The Carbon Leadership Forum accelerates transformation of the building sector to radically reduce the embodied carbon in building materials and construction.
  • We pioneer research, create resources, foster cross-sector collaboration, and incubate member-led initiatives to bring embodied carbon emissions of buildings down to zero.
  • We are architects, engineers, contractors, material suppliers, building owners, and policymakers who care about the future and take bold steps to eliminate embodied carbon from buildings and infrastructure.

 

www.carbonleadershipforum.org

 

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