Annual Webinar Series:
Embodied Carbon in the Built Environment
CLF hosts a six-part annual webinar series based on Focus Group topics. Each session includes 4-5 panelists who share research, strategies, initiatives and case studies to measure and reduce embodied carbon during design, construction and operation of buildings. See below to register for upcoming webinars and watch recordings of past sessions.
Upcoming webinars:
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Past webinars: 2020
- December 11, 2020. CLF 2020 Wrapup
Highlights for Embodied Carbon
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- August 21, 2020: Structures
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- Description: This session will introduce global embodied carbon initiatives and resources focused on structural engineers.
- Topics: SE 2050 Challenge and Commitment; two white papers: 1) “Getting to Zero” paper recently published by ASCE through the SEI sustainability committee, 2) UK activity including IStructE’s “Calculating Embodied Carbon” paper; and other initiatives
- Speakers:
- Orlando Gibbons
- Mike Gryniuk
- Mike Cook
- Mark D. Webster, Senior Consulting Engineer at Simpson Gumpertz & Heger and Co-Chair of the SEI Sustainability Committee
- May 22, 2020: Policy
- March 20, 2020: Education: Embodied Carbon 101
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- Slides not available
- Speaker: Kate Simonen (Director of Carbon Leadership Forum at the University of Washington)
- February 21, 2020: Construction: The Contractor’s Role in Quantifying and Reducing Embodied Carbon: Why, What and How
Past webinars: 2019
- December 13, 2019: LCA Data & Tools
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- Speakers
- Jeremy Gregory (Concrete Sustainability Hub at MIT)
- Geoffrey Guest (National Research Council Canada)
- Robert Cooney (National Research Council Canada)
- December 6, 2019: Materially-Important: Steel
- November 8, 2019: Buildings: Using WBLCA to Reduce Embodied Carbon within LEED and Beyond
- September 20, 2019: Reuse
- June 21, 2019: Renewable Materials
- June 5, 2019: Policy
- March 22, 2019: Materials: Insulation
Past webinars: 2018
- November 30, 2018: LCA Data and Tools
- August 17, 2018: Accelerating Circular Economy with Material Reuse
- June 15, 2018: Materials
- May 18, 2018: Buildings
- March 16, 2018: Renewable Materials
- February 16, 2018: Policy
Wood Carbon Seminars
8-Part Series: Wood Experts Answer Common and Critical Questions about the Carbon Impacts of Wood