Abstract: As
the new buildings and major renovations we design become more and more
efficient for energy and carbon emissions, the importance of the energy and
carbon emissions associated with the materials (embodied carbon) to create
buildings increases. The Minnesota Sustainable Building Guidelines (B3) have a
long history of including embodied carbon in the guidelines for state funded
construction. Currently the Center for Sustainable Building Research is
studying potential new processes and requirements to reduce the embodied carbon
of state construction in Minnesota.
Biography: Richard Graves is the Director of the Center for
Sustainable Building Research and an Associate Professor in the College of
Design at the University of Minnesota. From 2012 to 2014, he was the Executive
Director of the International Living Future Institute, leading the operations
and strategic efforts around all of the Institute's signature programs. His
research focuses on regenerative design as a fundamentally new approach that
must be required of architecture across scales (from the building to the neighborhood
to the city) to achieve sustainable and resilient urban development in a
dynamic world.
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