The University of Oregon’s Net ZED Lab, in association with TallWood Design Institute, CORRIM, and AIA Oregon are launching a series of five workshops to focus on unanswered questions or conflicting narratives in the professional design community related to carbon in structural building materials. To develop a more consistent narrative for the carbon conscious selection of structural building materials, we are inviting AEC members from multiple scales of practice, to query scientific and industry experts.
Workshop #4 | July 30 | 9am to 11:15am | 2 AIA LU|HSW Available
LCA Assumptions: carbon neutrality vs climate neutrality
The fourth workshop in the series will center around lesser understood topics of Life Cycle Analysis that often provides an incomplete picture on global warming potential. There are assumptions made within LCA that do not consider regional differences or only look at a portion of the life cycle of the material leading to results that provide a short-term solution. The panelists will explain these lesser understood topics and the conversations will explore the time scales of carbon and climate neutrality. There will be a Q&A period following the panelist presentations.
You can register for all 5 workshops at the link below.
In this presentation, participants will be able to:
Understand how the impacts to local ecologies are estimated during LCA analysis.
Understand the differences between various LCA methodologies and how the environmental impacts are calculated.
Describe the regional differences of the environmental impacts with the use of one type of structural material over the others.
Discuss the difference in solutions that mediate global warming potential for short term and long-term project goals.
Workshop 5 | 9-11:15am | Save the Date!
September 24 | Building the End of Life
This work was funded through USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS 58-0204-66-002) grant and in association with TallWood Design Institute