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Opening Keynote: Embodied Carbon, Why Now?
AIA/CES (HSW), 1 LUs
Circular Economy & Embodied Carbon
AIA/CES (HSW), 1 LUs
Can We Grow Carbon-Storing Buildings?
AIA/CES (HSW), 1 LUs
Financial Feasibility (De-Risking) of Low-EC Construction
AIA/CES (HSW), 1 LUs
Heading Toward Zero
AIA/CES (HSW), 1 LUs
The Role of Government in Addressing Embodied Carbon
AIA/CES (HSW), 1 LUs
Building Materials and Climate: Constructing a New Future
AIA/CES (HSW), 1.25 LUs


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Opening Keynote: Embodied Carbon, Why Now?
Filmed June 2024
Climate advocate and author Bill Caplan, Assoc. AIA, delivers a powerful opening keynote address and challenges design professionals to leverage their roles in reducing carbon emissions.
Bill discusses the significance of embodied carbon in the context of sustainable design and global warming, identifies key strategies for minimizing embodied carbon emissions in construction, and helps assess the global warming potential of various building materials and construction processes.
Presenter:
Bill Caplan, Assoc. AIA
| Provider: | AIA Los Angeles |
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| Certification: | AIA/CES (HSW) |
| Learning Units: | 1 hours |
Circular Economy & Embodied Carbon
Filmed June 2024
Explore innovative design and construction strategies for reducing embodied carbon rom an esteemed group of panelists.
Jan Top, Attache | Netherlands Consulate General, discusses the circular economy.
Pablo La Roche, Ph.D., Assoc. AIA, LEED AB BD+C, Principal & Sustainable Services Director | ARCADIS, focuses on total carbon and the impact of time.
Sophie Pennetier, Associate Director | Enclos; ; Adjunct Faculty | SCI-Arc, provides a fascinating look at designing for disassembly.
Presenter:
Don Davies, Co-Founder, Principal | Davis-Crooks Associates, Jan Top, Attache | Netherlands Consulate General in San Francisco, Sophie Pennetier, Associate Director | Enclos; Adjunct Faculty | SCI-Arc, and Pablo La Roche, Ph.D., Assoc. AIA, LEED AB BD+C, Principal & Sustainable Services Director | ARCADIS
| Provider: | AIA Los Angeles |
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| Certification: | AIA/CES (HSW) |
| Learning Units: | 1 hours |
Can We Grow Carbon-Storing Buildings?
Filmed June 2024
Learn how to harness natural building materials such as responsibly grown wood, straw, hemp and algae-based products to reduce embodied carbon emissions.
Wil Srubar, III, PhD, Associate Professor | University of Colorado Boulder delivers a fast-moving overview of the environmental consequences of current building materials, particularly steel and concrete, and their contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions.
Presenter:
Dr. Wil Srubar, III, Associate Professor of civil and architectural engineering and materials science at the University of Colorado Boulder
| Provider: | AIA Los Angeles |
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| Certification: | AIA/CES (HSW) |
| Learning Units: | 1 hours |
Financial Feasibility (De-Risking) of Low-EC Construction
Filmed June 2024
Ben Stapleton, Executive Director of USGBC California, deftly moderates a discussion with an architect, a contractor and a developer, to discuss low embodied-carbon projects in the construction industry. They cover the financial risks and costs associated with low embodied-carbon projects and innovative strategies and tools for reducing embodied carbon in construction projects.
Among the projects discussed is the PAE Living Building, which is the first certified living building that is both located in a metropolitan area and developer-driven.
Presenter:
Kathy Berg, AIA, Partner | ZGF Partners LLP, Celia Hoag, P.E., BEMP, True Advisor, Regional Sustainability Leader | DPR Construction, and Sarah Neff, Head of ESG | Landlease Americas
| Provider: | AIA Los Angeles |
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| Certification: | AIA/CES (HSW) |
| Learning Units: | 1 hours |
Heading Toward Zero
Filmed June 2024
Don Davies, PE, SE, an industry champion for the promotion of urban density and low-carbon construction, demonstrates the use of CLT, low-cement concrete and other alternative strategies to reduce cement usage in structural systems.
Don shows us how Hubbard’s Corner, his own experimental development, repurposes existing building stock and reuses materials to minimize embodied carbon while examining the challenges of implementing low carbon concrete in construction.
Don’s enthusiasm and stellar visuals will inspire design professionals to rethink their approach to design and construction.
Presenter:
Don Davies, PE, SE, Principal | Davies-Crooks Associates
| Provider: | AIA Los Angeles |
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| Certification: | AIA/CES (HSW) |
| Learning Units: | 1 hours |
The Role of Government in Addressing Embodied Carbon
Filmed June 2024
Navigate California’s evolving green building code as California State Architect Ida Clair, FAIA, LEED AP BD+C, CASp, leads us through CAL Green’s prescriptive- and performance-based compliance pathways, including the maintenance of existing structures, Whole Building LCA and product GWP limits.
Ida also discusses the impact and future directions of Cal Green regulations and their potential for reducing global warming, and the difficulties faced by enforcement entities, such as building officials, in integrating new sustainability requirements into existing frameworks.
Presenter:
Ida Clair, FAIA, LEED AP BD+C, CASp, State Architect | California Dept. of General Services, Division of the State Architect
| Provider: | AIA Los Angeles |
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| Certification: | AIA/CES (HSW) |
| Learning Units: | 1 hours |
Building Materials and Climate: Constructing a New Future
Filmed June 2024
Anna Dyson of Yale Center for Ecosystems + Architecture presents forward-thinking strategies for decarbonizing the built environment. From biomaterials to circular systems, discover how emerging technologies and ecological thinking are reshaping design.
Presenter:
Anna Dyson, Professor of Architecture | Yale University
| Provider: | AIA Los Angeles |
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| Certification: | AIA/CES (HSW) |
| Learning Units: | 1.25 hours |
2 Degrees Symposium: L.A.'s Green New Deal
Filmed May 2020
Understand ambitious climate policy and implementation strategies.
Dominique Hargreaves, Deputy Chief Sustainability Officer for the City of Los Angeles, provides an overview of LA's Green New Deal, one of the nation's most ambitious plans to combat climate change and achieve a zero-carbon grid.
Berkeley City Council Member Kate Harrison inspires us to kick-start the Green New Deal with all-electric buildings and explains how Berkeley is implementing steps to eliminate fossil fuels from new buildings while reducing greenhouse gas emissions, air pollution and economic inequality.
Presenter:
Dominique Hargreaves, Deputy Chief Sustainability Officer for the City of Los Angeles, Kate Harrison, Councilmember, City of Berkeley
| Provider: | AIA Los Angeles |
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| Certification: | AIA/CES (HSW) |
| Learning Units: | 1.0 hours |
2 Degrees Symposium: Urban Scale
Filmed May 2020
Understand how design professionals can help transform urban regions into more sustainable, less carbon-intensive environments.
Dylan Jones, AIA, of Gensler's Mobility Lab discusses how mobility has shaped our communities and how the past decade of technology-driven disruption is shaping the way we move, connect and plan the cities of tomorrow.
Nick Saponara, Deputy Executive Officer of Transit Oriented Communities at LA Metro, provides an overview of one of the largest transportation infrastructure programs in the nation and how it fosters transit-oriented communities.
Matthew Wintner, AIA, leads us through the planning process for the Pacific Beach EcoDistrict, which focuses on place, prosperity, health + wellbeing, connectivity, living infrastructure and resource regeneration.
Presenter:
Dylan Jones, AIA, Gensler Mobility Lab, Nick Saponara, Deputy Executive Officer, Transit Oriented Communities, Matthew Wintner, AIA, President of beautfulPB
| Provider: | AIA Los Angeles |
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| Certification: | AIA/CES (HSW) |
| Learning Units: | 1.25 hours |
2 Degrees Symposium: Building Scale
Filmed May 2020
Gain insights on the design of healthy, low intensity buildings that meet or exceed the goals set forth in the Green New Deal.
In “Adaptive Reuse,” William Leddy, FAIA, provides insights into why adaptive building reuse reduces both embodied operational carbon and why it is imperative in a climate-positive world.
In “Building to Cool the Climate,” Bruce King, Founder and Director of the Ecological Building Network (EBNet) provides strategies for pulling carbon out of the atmosphere and sequestering it within foundations, walls, roofs and insulation.
In “Aligning Climate and Health Goals,” Bill Walsh, Founder and Board President, Healthy Building Network, discusses why reducing embodied carbon is essential to meeting our climate change goals and why this demands a revolution in how we specify and manufacture building materials.
Presenter:
William Leddy, FAIA, Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects, Bill Walsh, Founder and President of the Board of the Healthy Building Network (HBN), and Bruce King, Co-Founder & Director, Ecological Building Network (EBNet)
| Provider: | AIA Los Angeles |
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| Certification: | AIA/CES (HSW) |
| Learning Units: | 1.25 hours |
2 Degrees Symposium: The Terrestrial Biosphere
Filmed May 2020
Dr. Joshua B. Fisher, a climate scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and one of the leaders of the ECOSTRESS mission, captivates us with stunning visuals, videos and metaphors about "The Fate of the Terrestrial Biosphere Under a Changing Climate."
Dr. Fisher gives an overview of the latest remote-sensing datasets and model developments from JPL and discusses new insights into the behavior and understanding of terrestrial ecosystems.
Viewers will appreciate why Dr. Fisher has been named one of the world's most influential climate researchers and is a widely sought-after lecturer on climate change.
Presenter:
Dr. Joshua Fisher, NASA JPL Research Scientist
| Provider: | AIA Los Angeles |
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| Certification: | AIA/CES (HSW) |
| Learning Units: | 1.25 hours |
