Reducing Embodied Carbon in Roads and Highways: A New Data Interchange

説明

主な学習内容

• Learn about new regulations, incentives, and market pressures for low-embodied-carbon road and highway construction.
• Learn how to apply analysis of embodied carbon in roadway projects using Civil 3D, and optimize workflows for application during design.
• Learn how to set an achievable embodied-carbon budget and carbon scope of work for a roadway project.

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  Kristen MacKay

  Kristen MacKay is a Design Technology Implementation Lead with McElhanney Ltd. Kristen is passionate about improving design processes and implementing innovative design technology. Kristen has 18 years of combined experience in Highway Design, Project Management, Value Analysis, Construction Supervision, Geomatics & GIS. She is passionate about changing the way we design to improve both the way we work and the world we live in.
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  Haley Waldhaus

  Haley Waldhaus is a Bridge Engineer-in-Training with McElhanney Ltd. with a passion for sustainable infrastructure. Combining design experience in highway and pedestrian bridges with a degree in green civil engineering from the University of Victoria, Haley brings a unique lens to transportation infrastructure design and strives to make environmental sustainability a larger part of the conversation in this space. Her structural engineering experience includes new bridge design, rehabilitation, structural inspections and load evaluations throughout British Columbia. She is also actively involved in growing McElhanney's sustainability services offerings and volunteers with an industry organization working to advance sustainability and climate change consulting practice on a larger scale. Haley is a registered Envision Sustainability Professional (ENV SP) and enjoys applying this framework to help achieve a more sustainable built environment.
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  Sheena Zhang

  Sheena Zhang is an AEC Sustainability Specialist at Autodesk, where she develops the internal strategy across Autodesk's portfolio for connected sustainability workflows and capabilities. Prior to Autodesk, she was a sustainability consultant to the architecture, engineering, and construction industry at Atelier Ten, where she managed projects of all scales and typologies, including adaptive reuse, museum, healthcare, and masterplans with a wide range of sustainability goals like net-zero operational and embodied carbon, zero waste of resources, and net-zero water waste. She helped develop methods to quantify projects' total carbon and has extensive experience working with many stakeholders, including building owners, design teams, and construction managers to incorporate sustainability from concept design through construction. As a LEED AP and Living Futures Accredited professional, she has a record of delivering a multitude of sustainable design benchmarks and is passionate about democratizing sustainability tools for equitable impact in the built environment. She is a registered architect and has taught at the Pratt Institute and the Parsons School of Design.
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  Renaud de Montaignac

  ORIS Co-founder & General Manager PhD in civil engineering ORIS is a cloud based software to measure and reduce the environmental impact of transportation infrastructure. Mixing civil engineering, value creation and holistic approach, my activity is about bridging engineering and material knowledge gap to create innovative solutions. Act now for sustainable Infrastructure My mantra : Be ready, Stay open, Do better
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  Phil Northcott

  Phil Northcott is the CEO of C-Change Labs, co-founder of BuildingTransparency.org, and co-creator of EC3. He is a veteran leader of advanced R&D projects, and leads a team of dedicated software engineers bringing the best of information technology to the fight against climate change, with a core focus on carbon-intensive construction materials. Phil's has extensive experience in Computer-aided design, optimization, manufacturing, and quality. As CEO of C-Change, he leads the development of the EC3 service, its integrations with the Autodesk ecosystem, and its implementation as a free tool and as the in-house tool of choice for major multinationals.
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  Stuart Guthrie

  As Technical Director at Sweco, Stuart leverages 35+ years of experience to revolutionize pavement engineering. His focus: innovative, low-carbon solutions for major infrastructure projects. Key Expertise: • Low-carbon pavement design • Circular economy implementation in road construction • Advanced carbon calculation tools Credentials: • Fellow: Institute of Asphalt Technology, Institute of Highway Engineers, Chartered Institute of Highways and Transportation • Chartered Engineer (UK) • National Highways Certified Pavement Engineer At Sweco, Stuart drives sustainability: • Champions warm mix asphalt to slash emissions • Pioneers recycled material use in pavements • Develops sustainability-focused professional certifications Impact: Stuart's work marries technical excellence with environmental stewardship. He's pushing the industry towards greener, more resilient infrastructure, tackling the construction sector's carbon footprint head-on. Vision: Stuart is transforming road construction, proving that sustainability and superior engineering go hand in hand. His legacy? A blueprint for eco-friendly infrastructure that doesn't compromise on quality or durability.