Embodied Carbon in Materials: Real Steps to Drawing Down Carbon in our Buildings

This course was originally presented at BuildingEnergy Boston 2020, a conference presented by the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA)

This session will provide concrete tools and answers on how to draw down carbon in our buildings starting today. We’ll focus on low-rise buildings, where most new construction and renovations happen and which are currently under-represented in embodied-carbon design and analysis. We will present critical construction details such as band joist insulation selections and sloped ceiling retrofits, as well as whole-building design strategies. We’ll present current developments including tools for carbon counting, “green list” material specifications, cooperative supply chains for biogenic materials, and carbon curriculum for industry education. We will fuel hope and build a movement by presenting the very real and immediate carbon drawdown reservoir that exists in constructed or renovated buildings. Session speakers presented the acclaimed keynote at last year’s BuildingEnergy conference.

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Participants in this course will upon completion of this course, be able to:

• Explain what embodied carbon is and how carbon can be stored in building materials
• Describe at least two case-study examples of stored carbon
• Describe critical, common design details that incorporate carbon storing materials
• Access currently-available tools that measure carbon impact and storage of specific materials