Designing Carbon Neutral Cities
WEBINAR
Designing Carbon Neutral Cities
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
Venue: Online
Register
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Designing Carbon Neutral Cities
April 12, 2022 - April 13, 2022
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
