Achieving a Sustainable Economy Through Digital Design Tools
The realities of the CO2e economy and calculating the carbon footprint of a building before you build it
In today’s architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) economy, there are plenty of people specialized in reporting the financial cost of designing and building. But tracking the environmental cost in carbon emissions (CO2e) is a different discipline altogether. In this data-rich talk, Elise Grosse, Chief of Sustainability for Sweco Architects, illustrates through multiple examples the real total cost of building methods in both financial and environmental currencies over the operational life of a structure. She goes on to show how design and construction methods can and must change—through the use of digital design tools like the Carbon Cost Compass (C3)—to achieve a sustainable construction economy in the future.
About the speaker
Elise Grosse is Chief of Sustainability at Sweco Architects in Sweden. She is also part of Sweco Sweden Sustainability advisory board, Chair of the Swedish Innovation Association Sustainability Council, and the Green Building Sweden Quality council. She is a popular keynote speaker, moderator, and facilitator of sustainability innovation processes. Together with clients, she develops new business concepts and partnerships for sustainable construction and building operation. She has a master’s in architecture, post-master’s in building biology IBN, environmental specialist Green Building GBC, and is a part-time Ph.D. scholar at KTH, the Royal School of Technology.
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