Slashing Upfront Embodied Carbon: How to Replicate Success

Learn lessons from prizing winning submissions of MassCEC’s Embodied Carbon Challenge, as well as One Boston Wharf, a 17-story net zero operational carbon office building that reduced upfront embodied carbon dramatically while reaching net zero operational carbon. This session will share low-cost, high-impact lessons learned across Challenge participants, and will dive into details of how One Boston Wharf reduced upfront carbon from cladding materials, low carbon concrete, and innovative materials like Sublime Systems concrete.

Session Speaker(s): 

Beverly Craig
Meredith Elbaum
Caroline Murray

Session Chair(s): 

Karno Widjaja

Event Time: 

Friday, March 21, 2025 - 10:30am to 12:00pm

Room / Location:
Harbor 3

CEU Information: 

Credit pending for AIA, BOC, BPI, GBCI, MA CSL, NAHB, NARI, PHI, Phius, and RESNET certification.

Learning Objectives:

  • Synthesize typical design strategies and materials that can reduce embodied carbon
  • Adapt strategies for procuring low carbon concrete on a project
  • Analyze which strategies for reduced embodied carbon are both low cost and high impact and thus will be appealing to clients
  • Recognize synergies and tradeoffs to embodied carbon reduction

Session ID: 

BOS25-212