Embodied GHG Symposium

Overview

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 the 2nd 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 on sufficiency and efficiency pathways for building more with less.

Embodied GHG Symposium will present the latest embodied GHG research, policy, case studies, and prove opportunities 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.

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If you would like to present a poster please submit an abstract here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeu45anINMq3r6QI3E8Al_8XyLwL7pmkcqUp6yWO-DYKenNjA/viewform?usp=header

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About the speaker

Michael Eliason is an architect and founder of Seattle-based Larch Lab – part architecture and urbanism studio, part ‘think and do’ tank – focusing on research and policy; decarbonized low-energy buildings; and climate adaptive urbanism. Michael is also an award-winning architect specializing in mass timber, social housing, Baugruppen (urban cohousing), and Passivhaus buildings. He has helped usher several legislative efforts on Point Access Blocks across the US, and is a founding board member of Seattle’s Passivhaus Social Housing Developer. His professional experience includes work in both the US and Germany. Michael is also an author, recently publishing Building for People: Designing Livable, Climate-Friendly, Affordable Neighborhoods (Island Press, 2024) which advocates for prioritizing neighborhoods where public health, affordable housing, climate adaptation, and a high quality of life are prioritized.

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Name of Talk: Designing better – using less