Through a blend of discussion and presentation, this training will focus on optimizing your practice for low-carbon outcomes. Topics include goal establishment, developing a strategy for efficient carbon analysis, different types of embodied carbon analysis throughout a design and construction process, developing a “tool stack”, data visualization and communication, and identifying and overcoming social barriers to conducting technical work.

Syllabus

Goal Development

• Goal setting: establishing quality goals to guide embodied carbon analysis
• Goal documentation: ensuring articulation of and alignment around goals

Strategic Development

• Identifying barriers and opportunities for embodied carbon analysis
• Continual improvement: developing strategies for iterative improvement over multiple projects
• Stakeholder engagement: developing strategies to successfully engage and enroll all participants in the design and construction process around embodied carbon reduction goals

Types of Analysis

• Comparative analysis
• Baseline reduction analysis
• Quantitative analysis

Analysis Structure

• Defining the analysis: asking the right question at the right time
• Good boundaries: establishing what needs to be defined and counted
• Certifications: analysis in pursuit of a third-party certification
• Communications: Who needs to know what, and how do they learn?

Tool stacks and Data

• Types of embodied carbon analysis tools and data sets
• Design workflow: identifying which tools to use throughout the design and construction process
• Tool selection: identifying which tools are needed to meet project analysis goals
• Democratizing data: ensuring tool, data, and analysis access for a diversity of participants

Case Study

• Goal, strategy, and analysis development
• Tool stack development
• Analysis results and communication: internal and external
• Applied analysis: identifying drivers of embodied carbon and project decision-making

Participants will leave this training with the ability to
 

1- Establish a framework for conducting embodied carbon analysis efficiently

2- Integrate this analysis seamlessly into their workflow

3- Communicate analysis results effectively to a variety of stakeholders, enabling actionable results for low-carbon outcomes

*A certificate of attendance can be issued for continuing education credits