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Track 3/Volet 3

CS3.2: Decarbonization in action

Friday, November 15, 2024
10:30 AM – 12:00 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

How can the preservation of historic buildings become a powerful tool in the fight against climate change? This session explores the intersection of historic preservation and climate action, offering valuable insights for architects, engineers, and historic property owners. The presentations focus on how historic structures can contribute to carbon reduction through innovative conservation practices. Topics include deep energy retrofits in higher education campuses, the integration of electrification and decarbonization strategies guided by carbon master plans, and the quantification of carbon benefits from existing building stewardship. Additionally, the session delves into the embodied carbon impacts of structural interventions in historic building reuse, providing essential guidance on how to make carbon-conscious decisions while preserving the integrity of historic structures. Attendees will gain a comprehensive understanding of how to balance technical innovation with conservation ethics, ensuring that historic buildings play a vital role in the fight against climate change.

HSW Justification
Learning objectives directly relate to Programming & Analysis, Project Planning & Design and Project Development & Documentation: This presentation will address the following HSW topics: 1 - Adaptive reuse and carbon-conscious designs support the endurance of historic resources facing the physical and economic impacts of climate change. 2 - Enerfy retrofit interventions in historic building requires multidisciplinary, collaborative decision-making, and regulatory stakeholder buy-in in terms of applicable codes and potentail variances. 3 - Historic buildings represent baseline embodied carbon footprint, but their potential to support overall sustainability goals extends well beyond that baseline; this session explores technological innovations and lessons learned to enhance safety, wellbeing, and energy efficiency of historic assets.

Learning Objectives:

  • Explore strategies for deep energy retrofits in historic buildings that balance energy efficiency and historic preservation principles.
  • Assess the opportunities and challenges presented by existing building stewardship as a climate action strategy, reducing both operational and embodied carbon emissions.
  • Evaluate the carbon impacts of structural interventions in historic buildings, using case studies to inform carbon-conscious design decisions.
  • Select appropriate tools and techniques to assess and quantify embodied carbon in existing buildings.

Presentations:

  • 10:30 AM – 10:50 AM EST
    (CS3.2) Carbon Counts: Quantifying the Value of Existing Building Stewardship

    Speaker: Denise Gravelle, AIA, LEED AP BD+C (she/her/hers) – Quinn Evans

    Session Chair: Eric Stein, OAQ APT CAHP PMP (he/him/his) – EVOQ Architecture

  • 10:50 AM – 11:10 AM EST
    (CS3.2) Conservation and Carbon: The Campus Context

    Speaker: Amy Montgomery, P.Eng. – RDH Building Science Inc.

    Session Chair: Eric Stein, OAQ APT CAHP PMP (he/him/his) – EVOQ Architecture

  • 11:10 AM – 11:30 AM EST
    (CS3.2) Electrification/Decarbonization of Historic Properties – Developing Carbon Master Plan, Effective Implementation Strategies, and Management of Operational Carbon

    Speaker: Hallah Abodaff, PE (she/her/hers) – Loring Consulting Engineers, Inc.

    Session Chair: Eric Stein, OAQ APT CAHP PMP (he/him/his) – EVOQ Architecture

  • 11:30 AM – 11:40 AM EST
    (CS3.2) Quantifying Embodied Carbon Emissions from Structural Interventions for Existing and Historic Building Reuse

    Speaker: Eleanor Phetteplace, EIT (she/her/hers) – Columbia University

    Session Chair: Eric Stein, OAQ APT CAHP PMP (he/him/his) – EVOQ Architecture