Embodied GHG Symposium

How can Canada meet the simultaneous challenges of scaling up its infrastructure and housing to keep pace with population growth while also achieving ambitious targets for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions?

Join the Centre for the Sustainable Built Environment for its first Embodied GHG Symposium. This half day event will explore solutions to building more housing and infrastructure with less greenhouse gas pollution. Interactive sessions and speakers will address total embodied emissions at the scale of the city, recognizing that to avert the most catastrophic impacts of climate change we have to build sustainably beyond per building or m².

Embodied GHG Symposium will present the latest embodied GHG research, policy, case studies, and prove opportunitites for networking with industry professionals, academics and policymakers. During the embodied GHG symposium we will have a poster session presenting research and case studies along the theme of reducing resource use and embodied GHG in the construction sector. The work can be at the building, multiple building, infrastructure, neighbourhood, city, regional and/or national scale for any country. The work must deal with embodied GHG and/or resource use the AEC sector.

If you would like to present a poster please submit an abstract here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeK-Jz12_HjWl6Xf0D0pwGtIq9eTDXifmcrKBOGB3u4rmHfNg/viewform?usp=sf_link

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Keynote Speaker: Isabelle Smith

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Speaker Biography

Isabelle Smith is the co-founder of the DecarbonomicsTM and holds the position of Global Director for Engineering Net Zero at AtkinsRéalis. She is a founding member LETI, a key player in transition of the UK’s built environment to Net Zero Carbon and has held board positions on the UK Net Zero Building Design Standard, UK FIRES, UK Green Building Council and the UK Society of Digital Engineering, among others. With a background in architecture and building services engineering, Isabelle has led multiple teams, including the UK & Europe Net Zero Building Design Team with AtkinsRéalis. Isabelle has led the delivery of sustainable infrastructure around the world including in the UAE, the UK, and Canada. She is focused on the development of the construction industry, both environmentally and digitally.

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Name of Talk: A Potential Future

GHG Budgeting and the construction sector in the UK. She will be discussing the UK construction sector GHG budget (and associated regulation) and how it is changing the AEC industry in the UK.