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Embodied Carbon and CALGreen
Room: 105
Time: 1:30pm – 2:30pm
July 2024 brings new CALGreen requirements for school buildings over 50,000 square feet and commercial buildings over 100,000 square feet to show embodied carbon savings. This short one-hour session will cover these new requirements, as well as explaining the concepts, why embodied carbon matters, how to measure and reduce embodied carbon, and how to show compliance with the new CALGreen requirements via prescriptive and performance pathways.
School buildings greater than 50,000 sqft are subject to the new CALGreen rules to meet new embodied Carbon goals. We’ll explain why embodied Carbon is important and what CALGreen will require of school building projects.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the concept of embodied carbon and how it is different from operational carbon
- Learn why managing embodied carbon of buildings is so important to achieving California’s climate goals
- Understand how to measure and reduce embodied carbon and what design decisions have the biggest impact
- Study the CALGreen requirements that take effect July 1, 2024 on embodied carbon and how to demonstrate compliance with them
Speaker:
Nick Brown, Instructor, Energy Code Ace | President, Build Smart Group
Nick Brown is President of Build Smart Group, an independent energy consultancy focused on California’s residential and nonresidential energy modeling, energy code, and building performance. He supports builders and architects in creating energy-efficient living and commercial spaces. Nick is a Certified Energy Analyst (CEA) for residential and an Associate Energy Analyst (AEA) for nonresidential projects, accredited by the California Association of Building Energy Consultants (CABEC). As a Subject Matter Expert on the Energy Code Ace statewide education team, he teaches classes for Southern California Edison on topics including Net Zero Design, All-Electric Homes, Heat Pumps, and PV and Battery Systems. Currently, Nick is involved with a CalSEED team researching phase change material applications in HVAC systems. He has been a member of CABEC’s Board of Directors since 2018.
Nick holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University and an MBA in Manufacturing from the University of Michigan. His hands-on experience includes a deep energy retrofit of his own home in 2014 and an All-Electric Net Zero Carbon ADU built in 2022, which serves as a living lab. Before founding Build Smart, he was President of Merlex Stucco, a $15 million manufacturer in Southern California for 15 years.