Where Embodied Carbon Meets Circular Economy- ZEBx Decarb Lunch Feb 13, 2025
Description
Season 5, Episode 2
Recorded on Feb 13, 2025
Overview
Reducing embodied carbon and advancing the circular economy are increasingly important efforts in the sustainability realm - but how do they relate to each other in practice?
For example, directly reusing structure and envelope components to serve new functions is the most carbon-efficient end-of-life scenario for a building. However, if this isn’t an available option to owners, builders, and designers – the next best thing is to reuse materials and design flexible and adaptable structures that can be deconstructed at the end of a building’s use. By holding onto materials at the end of life and optimizing their reuse potential, not only will this disrupt industry with a flow of low-carbon materials, but this will also increase diversion of construction and demolition waste from landfills and reduce extraction and use of virgin materials.
In this Decarb Lunch we learn more about the relationship between embodied carbon and circular design principles and how embodied carbon reductions can be achieved through deconstruction, reuse, and designing for disassembly.
Thanks to the generous support of BC Hydro and the City of Vancouver, this event was free.
Resources
Slides here
Speakers
Stephanie Dalo, Carbon Leadership Forum BC Program Manager, ZEIC
HostsNatalie Douglas, ZEBx Program Manager, ZEIC
Podcast ProductionGordon Patrick Newell, Communications at ZEIC
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