Industry expert session on the

‘Impact of Building Elements and Whole Building Carbon Benchmarking Studies’ with Harish Borah 🌁✨

📅 Date: Thursday, May 9th, 2024, 🕓 Time: 4:00 pm IST | 12:30 PM CEST, 🎯Duration: 45 mins

As per LETI the current embodied carbon benchmark for residential buildings is 1750 KgCo2e/m2 and non-residential buildings is 1700 KgCo2e/m2. The RIBA 2030 Climate Challenge Target  Benchmarks Review has an ambitious target of reducing embodied carbon benchmark by almost half for residential to 850 KgCo2e/m2 and non residential to 840 KgCo2e/m2 — Source: LETI Embodied Carbon Primer.

All buildings, regardless of their size, location, or purpose, have unique embodied carbon footprints. This variability is due to a multitude of factors including the materials used in construction, how much of it is being used, the energy sources powering the building, the efficiency of its design, and the behaviours of its occupants. 

Understanding and addressing these differences is crucial in the pursuit of reducing the overall carbon footprint of the built environment, especially if your LCA study is complimenting a real-time design effort, it is worth having a landscape view on where (building elements & life cycle stages) the biggest embodied carbons are hiding. It helps you to stay focused on the biggest opportunities available for reductions.

✅ Join Harish Borah, from ADW Developments in this session to deep dive more into the topic.

With Harish, we will talk about:

• Overview of the benchmarking studies from a global to a regional scale. 
• What are the logics/rationales that go behind benchmark designs that can be adopted across the spectrum and also to individual companies with a portfolio of buildings .
• The data that is required to produce a benchmarking study 
• What to expect from an LCA of the whole buildings – for different asset types, building elements and life cycle stages - using a mature marketplace as a case study to present these ideas.

Who should attend this webinar?

• Anyone with a role or interest in decarbonising the built environment.
• Sustainable construction professionals wanting to learn more about carbon footprint and benchmarking studies.
• Anyone looking to learn more about LCA and its applications.

About Harish Borah

Harish Borah is a subject expert in cost/carbon studies within the building industry, with 10+ years of experience. Among various engagements, Harish is the principal ‘Life Cycle Study’ Expert for ADW Developments (UK), advises Green Building Rating Systems in India on LCC & LCA & is currently building a community (OnePointFive) to help create a space in India for new climate-leaders to emerge & lead.

Harish’s writings have been tabled at COP28 & he has been part of the 2041 Climate Force Antarctica Crew. He has also been named among the top 25 leading minds in sustainability by the Economic Times, in India. He is an alumna of NIT Silchar, University of Manchester (UK) and University of Cambridge (UK); has the distinction of receiving the Ratan Tata Trust Grant (India), Hammond Trust Grant (UK), among others.

About One Click LCA

One Click LCA is a Helsinki-based tech company decarbonizing construction and manufacturing with world-leading, easy-to-use, and automated life-cycle assessment (LCA) to calculate and reduce the environmental impacts of building, infrastructure, and renovation projects — as well as construction and other manufactured products. It also enables manufacturers to generate and publish third-party verified EPDs, and allows assessment of circularity, life-cycle cost, and soon also biodiversity. One Click LCA is used in +170 countries. Its decarbonization platform includes a unique global database with +200,000 LCA datasets, and it supports +80 standards and certifications, including LEED, BREEAM, GRESB and other national regulations.

╰┈➤📣Reserve your seat now and ask your questions directly from Harish in this interactive session!