Slashing Upfront Embodied Carbon: How to Replicate Success

Learn lessons from prize-winning submissions to MassCEC’s Embodied Carbon Challenge, as well as One Boston Wharf Road, 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 Road reduced upfront carbon from cladding materials, low carbon concrete, and innovative materials like Sublime Systems concrete.

Session Chairs

Session Speakers

Room / Location
Harbor 3
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
CEU Information

This session is approved for 1.5 credit hours toward AIA (LU), BOC, BPI, LEED (BD+C), and NAHB certification. Those who attend a full day of the conference are additionally eligible for credit toward MA CSL, NARI, PHI, Phius, and RESNET certification.

Session ID
BOS25-112
Session Documents
112_slashing_upfront_embodied_carbon.pdf (6.36 MB)
Event Date
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