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2022 CALGreen Intervening Code Cycle: Reducing California’s Embodied Carbon

Green Technology

Forum Floorplan Advisory Board Register to Attend 2022 CALGreen Intervening Code Cycle: Reducing California’s Embodied Carbon The Division of the State Architect will present the 2022 California Green Building Standards Code (CALGreen) proposals to reduce embodied carbon in construction materials.

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Environment+Energy Leader Awards 2024 Winners Announced

3BL Media

Consumer & Residential: FLOR, for their Carbon Negative Area Rugs. Software & Cloud: Building Transparency for the Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator (EC3). This event will allow attendees to engage with award winners and thought leaders through keynote speeches and solution-driven sessions.

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Wood You Believe: Mass Timber Leading a Renaissance in Modern Construction

3BL Media

Reducing Embodied Carbon. For WSP and most of its clients and stakeholders, interest in mass timber is being driven primarily by a concern for reducing embodied carbon in buildings. To view the firm’s Embodied Carbon Action Plan, click here. [To Industry groups and professional organizations in the U.S.

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HGA and Consigli Unveil New Mass Timber Buildings at Bowdoin College

3BL Media

Early in the design process, an HGA structural analysis estimated that a timber frame system would reduce the buildings’ embodied carbon footprint by approximately 75 percent when compared to a traditional steel structure. Consigli began construction of both buildings in April 2021.

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Time Value to Carbon

Green Technology

Forum Floorplan Advisory Board Register to Attend Time Value to Carbon Over the years the building industry has been focused on the operation side of things. Embodied Carbon has become the focus as of late as a more holistic approach to a Building’s lifecycle.

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World Green Building Council Forum to Help Keep a 1.5°C Scenario Within Reach

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: Leaders in the building and construction sector joined forces at London Climate Action Week yesterday to engage in a purposeful event to help devise and deliver solutions necessary to combat the climate crisis, in the wake of COP26. by Jonathan Goldsmith, Head of Infrastructure & Transportation – UK at Acre. SOURCE: Acre.

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Lighting workshops will address quantifying sustainable resilience

Envirotec Magazine

Delegate feedback from the event: “Simon delivered a superb CPD workshop explaining and unravelling the complexities of the circular economy from the perspective of designers and manufacturers. The educational event explores the latest guidelines, standards, and legislation, Life Cycle Assessments and associated metrics.