FRI-DD-001: Carbon in the Built Environment: Strategies for Low-Carbon Design at Each Phase

Friday, November 11, 2022

9:00am – 11:30am PT

Location: Moscone Center, Room 304

2.50 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AIA/HSW, AICP, FL, NY/HSW
Ticket Price: $25 per person

Lead Speaker(s)

Christopher R. Ng-Hardy, ASLA, LEED AP

Senior Associate
Sasaki
Newton Center, Massachusetts

Speaker(s)

Lauren Bergenholtz, ASLA

Associate
CMG Landscape Architecture
Berkeley, California
Justin Winters, ASLA, LEED AP

Principal
Wintergreen Landscape Studio
Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Junko Nakagawa, AIA, LEED AP

Associate Director
Atelier Ten
New York, New York

Transform your practice by taking responsibility for the climate impacts of your projects, from neighborhood to garden scales. This session covers emissions considerations at each design stage and includes training sessions on open-source tools, client management strategies, and a working session to test project opportunities.

Learning Outcomes:

Understand how to discuss and study the carbon impacts of their projects.
Gain immediate, actionable ideas for lowering the carbon footprint of their projects.
Learn how to advocate for ecosystem preservation, restoration, and enhancement, with an understanding of carbon cycle impacts.
Learn effective strategies for managing client buy-in and project management risks for low-carbon design.
Examine a range of low-carbon design examples that challenge contemporary standards, materials, and aesthetics.
Engage with each project phase from a carbon perspective that can be immediately applied to their studio work.