Thursday 16 February 2023
Measuring embodied carbon in
residential design.
Speakers
Sarah Bousquet - Arup
Orlando Gibbons - Arup
Mariam Kapsali - Architype
Dave Richards - Conisbee
Venue: The Building Centre, Store Street, London WC!E 7BT
Time; 7.45 - 10.15am
The UK Green Building Council defines Embodied Carbon as the total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (often simplified to “carbon”) generated to produce a built asset. This includes emissions caused by extraction, manufacture/processing, transportation and assembly of every product and element in an asset. The UK Government has committed in law to achieve Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
The recent report by the Future Homes Hub (FFH) summarises a first phase of work undertaken by the homebuilding industry in collaboration with government expert and stakeholder bodies to tackle embodied and whole life carbon in new homes. It identifies actions needed for an effective and smart approach to measuring and reducing carbon at all stages of a new development lifecycle.
Come and join us as our expert panel discuss:
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What is the scale of the problem in reducing carbon emissions within the construction industry?
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How do we go about measuring and validating Embodied Carbon and how easy is it?
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How much upskilling of the industry at large will be required?
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How does it work in practice?
Speakers
Mariam Kapsali
Architype
Since joining Architype in 2015, Mariam worked on a variety of projects ranging from primary and secondary schools to housing and archives. She has worked as project architect on London Dock Secondary School, a large Passive House secondary school situated in London.
Mariam’s skills lie in climate responsive design for buildings, passive design, building adaptation for climate change and building performance. She is interested in sustainable design at the urban and building scale, as well as detailing and low carbon construction.
Prior to joining Architype, Mariam worked in architecture in Athens where she gained experience on a range of projects. Mariam has research experience in Building Performance Evaluation and the performance gap. She has lectured at University College London, Oxford Brookes University and the Architectural Association and has presented her research work in several conferences and academic journals. In addition, Mariam teaches environmental design at the Architectural Association School of Architecture.
Dave Richards
Conisbee
Dave leads one Conisbee's structural engineering teams in the London office. He has been a chartered structural engineer since 1995, and worked at Conisbee since 2005. Dave has over 35 years’ experience working in the construction industry, on projects in both the UK and overseas. He also runs a mentoring programme to prepare our prospective chartered engineers for their professional IStructE exam.
He has worked as an associate at the company for over a decade, and was recently promoted to associate director. Dave’s team produce designs for new and refurbished buildings of all shapes and sizes, anything from small but complex art installations, to large tower blocks and overseas shopping centres.
Sarah Bousquet
Arup
Sarah joined Arup in 2018 as a public health engineer, and has since worked on a range of commercial, infrastructure and education building projects. Over the past few years, she has specialised in building services embodied carbon, and has led several internal research initiatives to improve calculation methodologies and identify hot spots. At present, she is working as a sustainability consultant on a film studios project where she's leading the embodied carbon assessment of building services.
Sarah is currently focusing on optimising calculation processes, engaging with manufacturers to fill data gaps and upskilling building services engineers to drastically reduce emissions. She has recently co-authored the WBCSD report on Halving Construction Emissions Today published in January 2023.
Orlando Gibbons
Arup
Orlando is passionate about minimising the environmental impact of the built environment. He started life at Arup as a structural engineer, and having worked on a number of innovative projects in that role now specialises in embodied carbon measurement and reduction. As well as addressing embodied carbon on projects, his work spans research, up-skilling, and digital infrastructure development as Arup’s UK Structural Sustainability Skills Lead and Project Manager of Arup’s Global Net Zero Carbon Buildings Working Group.
He is an active member of industry initiatives addressing Whole Life Carbon including the BECD, IDDI, Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard and IStructE Sustainability Panel. He is a co-author of the IStructE’s How to Calculate Embodied Carbon guide.