Built Environment Lecture and Workshop — IEGC LC

1. Public CIE lecture, 9:00-10:00am, Reducing embodied carbon in buildings: Opportunities and caveats. Buildings are responsible for 37% of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, with building materials accounting for about a quarter of these emissions. Strategies to reduce the “embodied carbon” range from circular economy strategies (component and material reuse, recycling) to the substitution of carbon-intensive with regenerative building materials to the decarbonization of conventional building materials (e.g., green steel). To successfully decarbonize the built environment will require substantial progress in all these areas. 2. Workshop, 9:00-12:00pm, Towards a regenerative built environment: from circular solutions to substituting conventional with earth- and bio-based building materials. Following the public lecture, this workshop will offer case studies from around the world applying region-specific decarbonization strategies for building materials, illustrating that solutions are regional and always context specific. We will discuss the results and their implications for other world regions.