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Building Materials and Climate: Constructing a New Future

Presented by: Anna Dyson, Professor of Architecture | Yale University

AIA/CES (HSW) Learning Units: 1.25 Hours

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Course release date: July 2024

Anna Dyson, Hines Professor of Architecture and Founding Director of the Yale Center for Ecosystems + Architecture (Yale CEA), delivers this closing keynote full of useful strategies for decarbonizing our built environment. Professor Dyson discusses strategies for decarbonizing building materials, lifecycle thinking and a circular economy, the benefits and challenges of using biomaterials in building construction to lower embodied carbon, and how living biomass can contribute to lowering embodied and operational carbon.


Course Prices: $30 AIA members, $40 non-members (or purchase the 4-part series and save more than 20%)

(This continuing education course is licensed for viewing to a single individual. For discounted group viewing rates, please email Melissa@aecKnowledge.com or call 415.755.3058.)

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This course is part of a special package consisting of the following courses:

This year’s 1.5 Degrees Symposium on Climate Change includes features 12 amazing presenters, 7 inspiring courses and unlimited insights into what design professional can do now to leverage their influence on the built environment and on the health, resiliency and climate equity of our communities.

Hosted by AIA Los Angeles and the AIA Los Angeles Committee on the Environment, courses examine and underscore the urgency of 1) reducing embodied carbon and emissions, 2) the circular economy, 3) carbon-storing buildings, 4) low-carbon construction, 5) intelligent material selection, 6) innovative technologies for reducing carbon in concrete and 7) codes and regulations impacting climate resilience.

Viewers will gain important tools and knowledge necessary to position themselves as leaders in addressing the threat of embodied carbon.

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