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Track 5/Volet 5

CS5.4: Integrating Circularity

Saturday, November 16, 2024
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EST
CE: 1.5

General Admission/Adminsion générale Simultaneous Interpretation Available/Interprétation simultanée disponible AIA CES Approved

This session has qualified for 1.5 LU|HSW Credits

This session builds off of the concept "building re-use is climate action" and delves into how our heritage and older building stock can re-imagine themselves in the overall sustainability ecosystem. The session will review available financing levers to be utilized to re-position older buildings in an ESG portfolio and teach how to talk the sustainability language of the finance ecosystem. The session will dive deeper into the role heritage practitioners can play in crafting adaptive re-use and circular materials policies in their regions. An example of this advocacy will be presented from work in Ontario to develop the Ontario Municipalities Embodied Carbon Management Toolkit that is advocating for adaptive re-use of buildings first by looking at the carbon impacts of demolition, the benefits of re-use and how to best re-use materials as we work towards a circular ecosystem. The session will conclude with a broad overview of the circular economy in the built environment in action across Canada - and highlight the successes and lessons learned as well as the practitioners working together to make it happen.

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe how to use ESG parameters to secure financing for preservation projects.
  • Recognize how to use sustainabliity language of embodied carbon to incentivize adaptive re-use of whole builidngs as well as their materials.
  • Formulate the opportunities for material circularity and how to integrate into your project.
  • Discuss embodied carbon policies and their relation to deconstruction ordinances, adaptive re-use and circularity policy development.

Presentations:

  • 11:00 AM – 11:20 AM EST
    (CS5.4) How to successfully position older buildings and heritage assets within the ESG portfolio?

    Speaker: Graham Singh, BA BMin MSc CAHP – Relèven

    Session Chair: Carly Connor, M.A.Sc., CAHP (she/her/hers) – Green Salvaged Materials

  • 11:20 AM – 11:40 AM EST
    (CS5.4) Embodied Carbon Management Toolkit: A Municipal Guide for the adoption of policy in the City of Toronto and across Canada to incentivize adaptive reuse, demolition, deconstruction, material salvage and circularity

    Speaker: Ryan Zizzo, P.Eng., M.A.Sc., LEED AP ND – Mantle Developments

    Session Chair: Carly Connor, M.A.Sc., CAHP (she/her/hers) – Green Salvaged Materials

  • 11:40 AM – 12:00 PM EST
    (CS5.4) State of Deconstruction and Circularity in Canada and Beyond: A look at circularity policy in practice and the challenges and opportunities with wood and masonry in the preservation sector

    Speaker: Meredith Moore – Ouroboros Deconstruction

    Session Chair: Carly Connor, M.A.Sc., CAHP (she/her/hers) – Green Salvaged Materials