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Designing Carbon Neutral Cities

Designing Carbon Neutral Cities

WEBINAR

Designing Carbon Neutral Cities

April 12 – 13, 2022
8:30 am –12:30 pm MT

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Overview

Urban Design Utah/AIA Utah

Join us for a two half day virtual symposium inspiring innovative design solutions for a carbon-neutral future. The virtual speakers on the second day will be followed by an on-site tour of the Arch Nexus office remodel project which is slated for certification as the first Living Building Challenge commercial facility in Utah.

Educational credit for all presentations are pending approval through AIA, national offices.

Agenda

Tuesday April 12          

8:30 AM Soren Simonsen – AIA, Urban Design Utah Committee

8:40 AM Chris Magwood – Builders for Climate Action & Endeavour Center, Achieving Real Zero Carbon Building

9:50 AM 10 min  Break

10:00 AM  Ajla Aksamija – University of Utah Chair, School of Architecture, Decarbonizing the Built Environment Through Regenerative Design: Achieving Net-Zero Energy in Existing Buildings

11:00 AM Christie Gamble, Sustainability for CarbonCure Technologies, Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Concrete using Recycled CO2

11:45 AM Matthew Mead –  Hempitecture, Hemp Insulation: A Carbon Negative Alternative

12:30 PM   Soren Simonsen – AIA, Urban Design Utah Committee

12:32 PM END

Wednesday April 13  

8:30 AM Soren Simonsen – AIA, Urban Design Utah Committee

8:40 AM Brad Benke – Carbon Leadership Forum, Architecture’s Carbon Problem, and the AIA-CLF Embodied Carbon Toolkit for Architects

9:50 AM 10 min  Break

10:00 AM  Darren McAvoy – Utah State University Forestry Extension, Biochar in Utah

11:00 AM Kevin Emerson – Utah Clean Energies, Building Decarbonization in Utah

11:45 AM Pamela Yonkin – HDR, Sustainability Planning for Transportation Agencies

12:30 PM   Soren Simonsen – AIA, Urban Design Utah Committee

12:32 PM END

1:30 PM TOUR   Kenner Kingston – Arch Nexus Living Building Challenge

Registration

$10 Registration Fee

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  • Designing Carbon Neutral Cities
    April 12, 2022 - April 13, 2022
    8:00 am - 5:00 pm
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