Carbon and the Building Construction Industry

A free webinar by GBES and BlueOcean in partnership with AGC NYS

Thursday, October 7 | 1:00-2:30PM

In recent years, the design and construction industry has been undergoing a shift in focusing on general sustainability/efficiency of buildings to focusing on a project’s carbon impact. But what does that really mean for a contractor? This webinar will explain how embodied carbon is defined, including how it relates to on-site construction activities of both building and non-building projects such as infrastructure work, and introduce Building Green’s Contractor Commitment Program.  Finally, we will review some of the various methods of tracking your construction site impacts to distinguish your company as a leader in tracking, reporting, and improving your company’s true carbon footprint.  Topics will include:

• Allows contractors to track and report consistent metrics across their entire portfolio by simplifying the data collection process.
• Build your reputation as an industry leader by being among the first to track efforts during construction (an overlooked but non-negligible part of the building life cycle).
• Gain a better understanding of how your various teams/locations/crews/subs operate and identify where improvements can be made (because you can’t improve what you don’t measure).
• Streamline sustainability report-out metrics to key stakeholders by providing project- and company-specific information and analysis.
• Overview on how construction sites should track Embodied Carbon, including energy/water/waste during construction and a review of the Green Contractor Pledge

Speakers:  Charlie Cichetti – CEO and Co-Founder of SIG | CEO and Co-Founder of Blue Ocean Sustainability
Kristina Bach – Vice President and Co-Founder of Blue Ocean Sustainability

Free Webinar: Click here to register.