Grand Ballroom

08:00 AM - 09:30 AM

Keynote and Awards Ceremony Breakfast

03:35 PM - 04:35 PM

How can we halve the footprint of the built environment this decade? Buildings generate approximately 40% of total annual global carbon dioxide emissions. Of this total, building operations are responsible for approximately 28% annually, while the embodied carbon of building materials and construction is responsible for 11% annually. This requires us to halve the emissions of the existing building stock, and those of all future buildings.

08:00 AM - 09:10 AM

The built environment industry is beginning to understand its collective environmental impact on a larger scale. There is an increased focus on reducing the carbon impact of built spaces, especially as building owners establish their own climate targets and architects and engineers set reduction goals for their projects. Beyond the industry itself, policymakers on the local, state, federal and global levels have started to establish or pass Buy Clean bills and other low-carbon procurement policies.

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