LIVE WEBINAR: Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at 1:00 PM Eastern Time

Setting GWP Budgets for Concrete Buildings with LCA Based Carbon Accounting Tools

Please join us live for this CEU Webinar sponsored by NRMCA. Design professionals have always addressed issues of performance, budgets, and aesthetics. Now they are also being asked to evaluate the environmental burdens of their material choices. Every design decision can have an impact on the environment. The methods used to evaluate those decisions can often be misunderstood.

This presentation examines the process of quantifying the true global warming potential (GWP) to accurately inform the true impacts of building material choices. Tools like the web based NRMCA Concrete Carbon Calculator help concrete producers, contractors and design teams to collaborate on setting carbon budgets on projects and compares baseline projects to proposed projects to exceed embodied carbon reduction goals. Step-by-step details will demonstrate how to use the tool to set a carbon budget and write a specification that allows for the lowest possible carbon footprint for the ready mixed concrete proposed for various projects.

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