The first day of the online symposium will consist of a keynote lecture and two sessions. More details can be found below.
8:00-8:10am
(U.S. Eastern)
1:00-1:10pm (GMT)
2:00-2:10pm (CET)
Opening Remarks
Michael J. and Aimee Rusinko Kakos Dean, Penn State College of Arts and Architecture
B. Stephen Carpenter II
Director, Penn State Institutes of Energy and Environment
Bruce Logan
Symposium Co-chairs
Rahman Azari, Alice Moncaster, Freja Nygaard Rasmussen
8:10-8:50am
(U.S. Eastern)
1:10-1:50pm (GMT)
2:10-2:50pm (CET)
Keynote Speech
Luke Leung
Sustainability Engineering Studio Director, Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM)
8:50-10:20am
(U.S. Eastern)
1:50-3:20pm (GMT)
2:50-4:20pm (CET)
Session 1:
Embodied Carbon – Some Questions and Key Debates
Rahman Azari, Penn State, USA
Moderator
a. A Manifesto for Minimal Embodied Carbon: A question of politics not percentages
Alice Moncaster, The Open University, UK
Presenter
b. Climate Neutral and Circular Built Environment – Right Here, Right Now
Guillaume Habert, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Presenter
c. Net Zero in Buildings and Construction: Use and misuse of carbon offsets
Bernardino D’Amico, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
Presenter
Francesco Pomponi, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
d. Characterization of Links between Embodied Carbon and Thermal Mass
Matan Mayer, IE University, Spain
Presenter
Jonathan Grinham, Harvard University, USA
Presenter
10:20-10:25am
(U.S. Eastern)
3:20-3:25pm (GMT)
4:20-4:25pm (CET)
Break
10:25am-12:10pm
(U.S. Eastern)
3:25-5:10pm (GMT)
4:25-6:10pm (CET)
Session 2:
Embodied Decarbonization – Policies and Approaches
Alice Moncaster, The Open University, UK
Moderator
a. Building Decarbonization in the United States
Rahman Azari, Penn State, USA
Presenter
b. Embodied Carbon in Building Regulation: Development and implementation in Finland, Sweden, and Denmark
Freja Nygaard Rasmussen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Presenter
Harpa Birgisdottir, Aalborg University, Denmark
Tove Malmqvist, KTH, Sweden
Matti Kuttinen, Ministry of the Environment, Finland
Tarja Hakkinen, Ministry of the Environment, Finland
c. Global Carbon Budgets for the Built Environment: How far are we to achieve a 1.5°C limit in global warming? A Swiss example
Yasmine Dominique Priore, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Presenter
Guillaume Habert, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Thomas Jusselme, HES-SO Haute école spécialisée de Suisse, Switzerland
d. The Levels Process and the Life Levels Project: Supporting the development of quality data
Borja Izaola, Green Building Council, Spain
Presenter
e. Embodied Carbon – Knowledge Building for Industry
Aoife Houlihan Wiberg, Ulster University, UK; NTNU, Norway
Presenter
Harpa Birgisdottir, Alborg University, Denmark
Freja Nygaard Rasmussen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Tove Malmqvist, KTH, SwedenAlice Moncaster, Open University, UK
12:10-12:40pm
(U.S. Eastern)
5:10-5:40pm (GMT)
6:10-6:40pm (CET)