Embodied Carbon and CALGreen

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:

1. Understand the concept of embodied carbon and how it is different from operational carbon
2. Learn why managing embodied carbon of buildings is so important to achieving California’s climate goals
3. Understand how to measure and reduce embodied carbon and what design decisions have the biggest impact
4. 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

Speaker Photos and Bio’s Coming Soon!

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