Zero Carbon Track
Zero Carbon
22 October 2020, 1:00 pm EDT with Duncan Cox and Alexandra Davis of Thornton Tomasetti
Mitigating carbon in our foundations through *less* concrete and foam
22 October 2020, 2:00 pm EDT with Rob Conboy of Glavel and Russ Miller-Johnson of Engineering Ventures
Zero Carbon OPAL's Western CT Residence
22 October 2020, 3:00 pm EDT with Matthew O’Malia of OPAL Architecture
To make a meaningful contribution to solving the climate crisis, building materials must not only reduce operational energy use, but also arrive at the jobsite with a radically reduced carbon footprint. Because wood sequesters carbon, wood products have the potential not only to zero out their carbon debt, but actually to run a negative balance, sequestering more CO2 than they contribute in their manufacture and shipping. This talk will explore how, with a residence in CT, it is possible to reach a zero-carbon goal for operational and life cycle carbon through combining passive house performance with Tesla solar shingles, and an all-wood CLT /wood fiber insulation construction system.
Model C - Boston's first CLT Multi-family Passive House
23 October 2020, 1:00 pm EDT with Travis Anderson of Placetailor
This talk will focus on the integrated design and development process involved with delivering the city of Boston's first CLT multi-family passive house and what happens when a "pie in the sky" idea turns into reality. Urban analysis, community impact, collaborative process, project delivery, initial energy modeling and embodied carbon analysis will all be discussed. This project is a year in the making and is anticipated to break ground in the Spring of 2021.
Zero Carbon Multifamily Affordable Housing: Fast, Cheap and Barely in Control
23 October 2020, 2:00 pm EDT with Kai Fast and Jesse Thompson of Kaplan Thompson Architechts
This session presents on lessons learned from ongoing Kaplan Thompson Architects' Affordable Housing multifamily projects in Connecticut, New Hampshire and Maine. Kai Fast and Jesse Thompson will speak to how they have implemented a set of standardized construction techniques to try and roll out Passive House for the masses quickly, economically, and beautifully.