Advocates hope to see efforts like Marin County's Bay Area Low-Carbon Concrete Code—which would limit embodied carbon in both public and private projects—catch on around the globe.
How does the rapid pace of technological development affect the way architecture is taught, practiced, and sustained? This year’s speakers presented a range of answers to that very question.
From recent reports like "Bringing Embodied Carbon Upfront" to new tools like EC3—the Embodied Carbon Construction Calculator, released at Greenbuild—the profession is grappling with how to decarbonize the materials and construction supply chain.