A green built environment plays a significant role in reducing our carbon footprint and accelerating the journey to zero carbon. This starts with planning and designing zero carbon buildings. Discover how life cycle assessment comes into play during this process with insights from eTool and Jasmax.
Read on for further details about this webinar.
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is particularly useful when applied early during building design, so that environmental consequences of design choices can be tested, understood, and refined. This is where eTool comes in with their building LCA software eToolLCD. We dig into the details in this webinar replay featuring architecture firm Jasmax’s Associate Principal—Sustainability Manager Jerome Partington and eTool’s Business Development Manager Maryia Perthen.
This 30 minute webinar is a part of our series ‘Straight from the Horse’s Mouth’ and is hosted by CEO Barbara Nebel.
The webinar covers
- The role of the built environment on New Zealand’s overall carbon footprint
- Identifying carbon reduction potential early on with LCA
- The importance of calculating the embodied carbon of a building
- Pathway to net zero carbon design
Key takeaways from webinar
- As a significant contributor to New Zealand’s carbon footprint, the built environment also offers significant opportunities for decarbonisation
- Embodied carbon becomes increasingly important as the electricity grid decarbonises
- LCA can play a key role on the green building transformation by looking at both the embodied carbon (building materials) and the operational carbon (energy)
- Software tools such as eToolLCD further the green transformation by enabling modelling of ‘whole of building’ projects
The biggest carbon reduction potential occurs during the planning and design phase of buildings—how we build and what we build will determine the timeline for a green building transformation and thus, have a significant impact on our pathway to net-zero. Recognised by a host of green building rating including New Zealand’s NZGBC and Australia’s Green Star, eToolLCD provides a tried and tested way to incorporate LCA into this process from the start.