Description
How “green” is your green building? This session intends to answer this fundamental question and to reveal the “real” carbon impacts of various design decisions on early stage building design. Annually, embodied carbon is responsible for 11% of global greenhouse gas emissions and 28% of global building sector emissions. Currently, architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) firms mostly focus on reducing operational emissions without much regard for embodied emissions. This talk will focus on the importance of quantifying the impact of material selection at early stage design on EC, and to integrate the results with Insight 360 software. We’ll illustrate the fundamentals of EE and EC, and we’ll demonstrate through case studies how Dynamo workflows and various carbon databases can be used to provide a visual, high-level carbon feedback to the designer. The intention of this talk is to empower the designers to make better carbon-informed decisions without compromising energy performance for their Architecture 2030 projects.
Key Learnings
- Discover why embodied carbon simulation is as critical as energy simulation for the Architecture 2030 challenge
- Learn how to estimate during early stage design the impact of embodied carbon simulation on a project’s carbon footprint
- Learn how carbon databases and Dynamo libraries can be used to create a basic carbon feedback tool
- Learn about common high- and low-impact materials and where to find additional resources for a carbon-sensitive design
Speakers
- ASAman SinghviAman is a New York City based High Performance Design Specialist with over 7 years of research and professional experience in building science and architecture. He holds an M.Des. in Energy and Environments degree from Harvard University Graduate School of Design and has been engaged with multiple projects from small Net-Zero Energy buildings to large master-planning. Aman's professional work also includes development of scripts, tools and UI dashboards to create more efficient, user-friendly workflows for BIM and Energy Modeling. Some of his expertise include Dynamo, Grasshopper, Insight 360 and fundamental C# and JavaScript. His speaking engagements includes IBPSA Int'l Building Simulation Conference and ASHRAE SimBuild. He has also held leadership positions at university and professional level organizations focusing on technology in the field of sustainable design in the AEC industry. His recent award includes the The Kate Goldstein Scholarship for Emerging Professionals by NESEA.
- EDEdward DaltonI am a structural engineer and senior software engineer with 6 and half years’ experience split between three engineering consultancy companies Taylor Thomson Whitting (TTW), Sydney Australia, BuroHappold, London UK and AECOM New York, USA. During my time at TTW my main role was in the development of in-house software for both drafting and engineering applications. At BuroHappold although my role has been more project/structural design focused I have been key player in setting up creating an in-house object model based in C#. This object model defines a common interface for transferring data (geometry, properties and attributes) between analysis and BIM software as well as creating a program agnostic environment for data processing and manipulation. In my current position at AECOM my role has been much more focused in software development where I manage a small team in the delivery of software solutions including web applications, data management and engineering design.
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