AIA CA Climate Action Webinar Series | Storm Water as a Site Design Element
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Did you miss this valuable Webinar? Scroll down to view the video. Speakers: Paul A. Mathew, Ph.D. | Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryMegan Dougherty, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, WELL AP, Fitwel Amb. | Perkins EastmanStephanie Kingsnorth, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP | Pfeiffer PartnersHeidi Lubin | e6 DevelopmentDay | Date | Time: Wednesday, August 31, 2022 | 12:00 PM – 1:00 PMAIA LUs: 1 LU / HSWDescription: There’s a wide array of commercially available, proven technologies to deliver deeper energy savings cost-effectively. The energy efficient integrated systems approach often requires significant expertise to ensure that they are designed, integrated, commissioned, and operated effectively. Furthermore, the customary practice of building energy retrofits is to treat such projects as standalone engineering projects, which is often too disruptive to the building occupants and activities because they are not aligned with the real estate life cycle.A scalable approach to deploying energy efficient integrated systems in offices and schools by opportunistically incorporating them within adaptive reuse projects ranging from tenant fit outs to whole building renovations is more productive. We describe a suite of Integrated Systems Packages (ISPs) that are ‘pre-engineered’ to minimize expertise and effort required for implementation. Each ISP is tailored to a particular project scope, such as tenant fit out, equipment replacement, whole building renovation, etc. Each ISP is also pre-validated with respect to functionality and energy performance to reduce real and perceived risk. We review ISP toolkits which include template specifications and other resources.Learn More:What You Can Do Now: Incorporate Energy Efficiency into Tenant Improvement and Renovation Projects with Integrated Systems PackagesEarn 1 LU|HSW and 1hr of ZNCD MCE for attending live.https://youtu.be/DI4P_fq2EM8 Additional Resources Additional Resources PDF Presentation | Adaptive Reuse, Efficient by Default: Projects with Embedded Energy Efficiency
When: Wednesday September 14th, 2022 12pm – 1pmUnits: 1 LU/HSW (pending approval)Moderator:Avideh Haghighi AIA, LFA, LEED GA --- Associate Principal | ZGF ARCHITECTS LLPSpeaker:Brad Benke, AIA | Researcher, Carbon Leadership ForumJack Rusk, LEED AP | Climate Strategist, EHDDDescription:This program is the first in a 3 part series on Carbon made in partnership with the Carbon Leadership Forum.Kicking off the series with basic terminology and metrics, this program will guide audience members through core concepts of carbon analysis and demystify terms such as embodied carbon, whole-life carbon, and zero carbon. Attendees will leave this program with a foundational understanding of the built environment’s contribution to global climate change including how, when, and where greenhouse gas emissions are generated over the full life cycle of a building.Please Note:To qualify for AIA course credit and/or a ZNCD certificate of completion, you must stay logged in to the live webinar. It may take several weeks before credits are posted to your AIA transcript or before you receive your certificate of completion. Certificates are sent via email to the address that is provided at time of registration.Earn 1 LU|HSW and 1hr ZNCD MCE for attending live, or 1.25hrs ZNCD MCE for watching on-demand here. Additional Resources Additional Resources PDF Presentation | Carbon Part 1. | Carbon Accounting: Terminology and MetricsFinal_Combined Presentation_CLF Pt 1
When: Thursday September 22nd, 2022 12pm – 1:30pm Units: 1.5 LU/HSW (pending approval) Qualifies for Zero Net Carbon Design Mandatory Continuing Education. Certificate of completion will be provided to those who stay on and watch the webinar live. Moderator: Carmen Suero, Associate AIA --- Principal with GPCO Speaker: David Arkin, AIA --- Principal | Arkin Tilt Architects While reducing the operational carbon impacts of structures is important, focus has turned to the impacts of material choices and construction itself – the embodied carbon of a building from extraction, processing, and assembly of materials. This is especially important in California given the relatively low carbon intensity of our grid-supplied electricity. An all-electric, grid-harmonized building will have low operational carbon emissions in California because of our electric grid’s cleaner energy mix. Thus, the need to shift focus toward embodied carbon. The AIA 2030 Commitment’s Design Data Exchange (DDx) added reporting of embodied carbon in 2021. In this session, David Arkin outlines the basics of embodied carbon, discusses materials that have low embodied carbon or store carbon, and introduces a range of tools for measuring your project’s kilograms of CO2 emitted per meter squared. Examples of carbon storing materials and the range of tools available for measuring embodied carbon will be shared. The presentation will include challenges to answer questions regarding embodied carbon and climate impacts, such as: ‘Name the earth’s five carbon sinks’, ‘What process drives the sequestration of carbon in plants and soil’, and ‘Other than wood, what bio-based resources are potential carbon storing building materials’, to name a few. Earn 1.5 LU|HSW and 1.5hrs ZNCD MCE for attending live. https://youtu.be/a49NkNfZTO4 Additional Resources Additional Resources PDF Presentation | Small Firm Carbon Basics: Why It’s Important and How to Measure It
With the 2022 Energy Code going into effect January 1, 2023, California is moving closer to meeting goals for carbon reduction, grid harmonization and energy efficiency. Electrification, photovoltaics, and ever-increasing building efficiency measures are all tools utilized to help single-family construction achieve these goals. During this session, we will review the electrification measures of the Energy Code and explore appliance choices, such as space heating, water heating, cooktops and clothes dryers, that can meet those measures taking into consideration installation criteria, cost, and fuel source; explore when the photovoltaics (PV) minimum requirements apply and how PV sizing should take into consideration these additional electric appliances and other electric loads of the home; discuss how battery storage allows the homeowner to store electric production from the PV system to utilize during peak use conditions and the Energy Code requirements when battery storage is not installed at time of construction. There is a lot of great information out there supporting electrification, and we take a look at some of Energy Code Ace’s favorites. Speaker: Gina Rodda | Principal/Owner of Gabel Associates, LLC https://youtu.be/vhb5cx7rD2k (Watching video recordings of past webinars does not give the opportunity to receive any AIA LUs / CE credit.)