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Content Description

Reducing Embodied Carbon: How Architects Can Make a Difference Using LCAs & EPDs, 2024
CEU: 0.1 | CEU Code:

Alside Embodied carbon represents a significant portion of the building industry's carbon footprint; it is essential to utilize low-carbon construction processes and materials now, before the tipping point of the climate crisis is reached. This course discusses the use of LCAs and EPDs as tools to measure the carbon footprint and environmental impacts of building products and how architects and designers can utilize them to make sustainable choices in the design stages of a project. The course also looks at the growing relevance of EPDs in policies and green building standards, such as the Building Design and Construction rating systems of LEED v4.1 and the upcoming LEED v5. 60 minutes.

Learning Objectives

  • Describe what embodied carbon is, its significance for climate change, and the role architects can play in reducing it.
  • Describe how LCAs and EPDs are developed and what information they convey.
  • Explain how to utilize the different elements of LCAs and EPDs to understand a product's environmental impacts and weigh it against other product options in support of design goals, such as those articulated in LEED v4.1 and v5.
  • Discuss some of the codes, policies, and green building programs, such as Living Building Challenge, Zero Carbon Certification, and LEED, in which EPDs are required or incentivized to reduce the embodied carbon impacts of buildings and infrastructure.

Faculty BIO

Sam Savides is the Senior Business Development Manager for the northern and central US at Associated Materials'Alside, responsible for educating architects, developers, builders, and remodelers through the creation and conversion of product specifications. Focusing on new construction and remodeling applications, Sam has educated architects throughout his more than 30 years in building material business development for several well-known manufacturers. Sam graduated from Elmhurst University and is a registered American Institute of Architects presenter.

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2024
ICC
Model Code
 $256.71
2024
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