Title: Holistic Carbon Reduction in the Built Environment (Panel)
Clients are becoming much more focused on the emissions associated with their buildings; this pertains to both operational emissions and emissions associated with the static building elements. Embodied carbon analysis is beginning to get paired with the energy model to understand a more wholistic view of a project’s emissions. This session will focus on strategies that help a project team balance operational carbon solutions with embodied carbon strategies.
Panelists: Jessica Martinez (DCI), Hilary Giffen (EEI), Rachel Thompson (EUA), Richard Bowden (EUA)
Objectives:
- Identify the impacts from electrification.
- Recognize the issues and benefits from mass timber versus steel/concrete.
- Acknowledge the programmatic space types that fit mass timber best.
- Define the terms associated with embodied carbon.
Title: Mastering Energy Modeling with Master Tools
Creating an energy model for a project can be an overwhelming task. From gathering and organizing data across various design disciplines to making assumptions for unfinished aspects, it’s easy to feel buried under the complexity. On top of this, tracking the data through each phase of design while maintaining budgeted time can add even more pressure. So, how can you streamline this process to ensure both accuracy and efficiency? The answer lies in using master tools such as checklists and data tracking files that empower energy modelers to manage data and workflows seamlessly.
Speaker: Sheila Sagerer, EIT, LEED AP BD+C, BEMP, Senior Analyst, Ecoworks Studio
Objectives:
- Discover why master files are essential for maintaining consistency and accuracy in energy modeling.
- Explain how to use master checklists to stay on track throughout the modeling process, with real-world examples.
- Explore how master data tools help in gathering, manipulating, managing, and tracking data efficiently, with practical examples.
- Describe how master files support quality control, facilitate reporting, and provide quick answers to the project team.
Title: Embodied and Operational Energy Lessons and Opportunities Outside Building-Scale New Construction
New construction at the individual building scale often gets the most attention for innovation in high performance. Oftentimes, rightly so. However, when one zooms out to look at the bigger picture, there are clear opportunities for high performance innovation in masterplans, campus approaches, and renovation of existing buildings. Such big picture planning and attention to existing resources can help one take a more holistic look at a project’s contextual opportunities, pertaining to incentives, embodied carbon analysis, triple bottomline analysis, etc. This presentation uses examples of one masterplan, one campus, and one renovation project to highlight unconventional opportunities and lessons learned for operational and embodied carbon.
Speaker: Ramana Koti, Principal Consultant, LEED Fellow, BEMP, GGP, TerraVert Sustainability Services, LLC
Objectives:
- Describe how the Georgia World Congress Center Masterplan integrated incentives, energy analysis, and planned for Triple Bottomline Analysis
- Explain how a confidential technology campus project achieved net-zero operational energy and reconciled between design and as-designed Lifecycle Assessments
- Apply GSA’s Low Embodied Carbon and Lifecycle Costing Analysis requirements for window treatment/replacement while respecting historic preservation guidelines
- Incorporate whole life carbon metrics into projects of all types
Title: Waste to Wealth; Circularity is Central (Panel)
Circularity is concept that everything should be healthy food for something else – like nature. We should strive to run our business as nature runs its’ business. Rather than demolition the industry is beginning to refer to this stage as ‘deconstruction’. Manufacturers are creating Extended Producer Responsibility programs that take back used products as raw materials for new products. This session focuses on strategies that promote circularity and resiliency throughout the project’s life cycle.
With sustainability, tomorrow begins today. With circularity, tomorrow began yesterday.
Panelists: Phil Vetterkind (Hunzinger), Misty Bell (EUA), Rachel Thompson (EUA)
Objectives:
- Identify and define opportunities for circularity.
- Recognize how to educate project team members on circularity strategies.
- Acknowledge the cost impacts and challenges of deconstruction.
- Explain the terms associated with circularity and resilience.