CLF British Columbia

In case you can’t make it to the five year anniversary celebration in Vancouver on October 16, we hope you can join us for a social in Victoria!

Originally founded in 2019 as the Embodied Carbon Network Vancouver, CLF British Columbia has played a fundamental role in reducing embodied carbon in the building sector - not only in the Metro Vancouver region, but throughout the province as well. It has also supported the development of embodied carbon regional hubs throughout Canada and around the world.

The Embodied Carbon Exchange is our newest initiative, join us for this bi-monthly group discussion event that connects a diverse range of building industry stakeholders, including architects, structural engineers, developers, manufacturers, policy makers, and sustainability consultants. Our focus is on open-ended, informal discussions about real-world, on-the-ground problems related to reducing embodied carbon in building construction projects.

The Embodied Carbon Exchange is our newest initiative, join us for this bi-monthly group discussion event that connects a diverse range of building industry stakeholders, including architects, structural engineers, developers, manufacturers, policy makers, and sustainability consultants. Our focus is on open-ended, informal discussions about real-world, on-the-ground problems related to reducing embodied carbon in building construction projects.

Join us for our first hybrid Embodied Carbon Exchange where you can connect with a diverse range of building industry stakeholders, including architects, structural engineers, developers, manufacturers, policymakers, and sustainability consultants.

Whether you are an embodied carbon expert, or new to this area of sustainability, our focus is to provide a space for informal and open-ended discussions about real-world, on-the-ground problems related to reducing embodied carbon in building construction projects.

The City of Vancouver is requesting your input in an upcoming online workshop on their proposed 2025 Vancouver Building Bylaw amendments that will limit embodied carbon in new Part 3 developments.

With a 6-year countdown to 2030, the City of Vancouver is committed to developing & implementing policy that will facilitate the 40% reduction in embodied carbon.

During the workshop, you will receive:

On February 14, CLF BC will be hosting four sessions at Buildex Vancouver. Why not cap the big day off with a few drinks at a nearby pub?

Come and join us for drinks and great conversation. If you’ve attended one of our events before, you’ll know that we believe that progress comes when we all speak and share ideas.

Now in its second year, the BC Embodied Carbon Awards are a first of their kind, fully dedicated to celebrating companies and projects that go above and beyond in the pursuit of low embodied carbon design.

This awards night will celebrate and showcase those who are leading the way, working to reduce the embodied carbon in their projects. We wish to celebrate success stories and share ideas to accelerate change.

There are 6 awards categories this year:

Looking for some inspiration before submitting your application to the 2024 BC Embodied Carbon Awards?

Our next CLF BC webinar features Discover Montessori, the Large Buildings category winner at the 2023 BC Embodied Carbon Awards. Learn more about this award-winning project that used embodied carbon as a key decision-making tool for building design.

As of Oct 1, 2023, the City of Vancouver’s Building Bylaws include an embodied carbon requirement for large (Part 3) buildings. To comply with the requirement, two pathways are possible: the absolute and baseline paths. If choosing the absolute path, the project cannot exceed 800 kg CO2e/m2 (double the benchmark intensity of 400 kgCO2e/m2). If pursuing a baseline path, projects can define a project-specific, functionally equivalent baseline to measure against, and cannot be more than double the baseline.