About this event
Material Bank's "Design Your Impact" Series
Demystifying the Language of Carbon: EPDs, LCAs and Other Carbon Acronyms
1 x IDCEC Credit Offered to All Attendees
With global climate change growing in severity and urgency, designers need to take a deeper look at building interiors as a source of carbon reduction. Most of the global building stock already exists, and renovations never stop during their 25+ year life spans, so their carbon footprint just keeps growing.
Join Suzanne Drake, senior interior designer, sustainability lead at Revel Architecture, and Christine Tiffin, senior consultant, sustainable materials specialist at ARUP, to learn how to use EPDs to inform your interior product selection and start improving your projects' embodied carbon footprints. Take control and lead your clients to do less harm, starting now!
About Suzanne Drake
Suzanne’s career has focused on commercial interiors, specializing in creating healthy environments and being the conduit for healthy materials knowledge dissemination. As an interior designer, she draws on over two decades of experience in workplace, health care, and laboratory environments to support client initiatives and sustainability goals. Currently, she is leading Revel’s firmwide sustainability initiative.
About Christine Tiffin
Christine is a senior consultant in Arup San Francisco’s Sustainability, Climate, Resilience, and Environment group. She specializes in embodied carbon, whole-building life cycle assessment, sustainable building materials, and green rating systems. Christine offers project teams practical advice to make more informed design decisions though the use of data and computational tools that integrate easily into real workflows, with the end goal to have a positive impact on the built and natural environment.
This session is brought to you by
The Carbon Impact Program is a free, exclusive Material Bank program supporting firms on their sustainable design journey. Program partners gain access to firm specific sampling impact metrics and customized digital tools to support sustainability education and material specification efforts. The program is available for firms with 10+ Material Bank members and requires minimal set-up and execution time. Click here to learn more.
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