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Less Is More Sustainable: Taking a Pre-engineered Approach to Reducing Embodied Carbon

KEYWORDS embodied energy / sustainable architecture
7/14/22 2:00 pm to 7/31/23 EDT
Contact: Tiffany

Credits: 1 AIA LU/HSW; 1 AIBD P-CE; 0.1 IACET CEU
May qualify for learning hours through most Canadian architectural associations

This webinar is part of the Sustainability Academy

Architects play a pivotal role in advancing a better, healthier built environment by specifying more sustainable materials that help reduce environmental impacts while maintaining a project’s performance, economic, and design goals. Using pre-engineered components within this framework often reduces the unknown when bringing a building to life. From turnkey pre-engineered metal buildings to pre-engineered wall, floor, ceiling and roofing products and systems, there are a host of new products and approaches that can help the industry prioritize sustainability by reducing a project's carbon footprint.

This webinar will examine the importance of protecting the environment in the construction industry and will detail several projects that have incorporated pre-engineered solutions to meet those eco-friendly objectives. Additionally, there will be discussion of the tools project teams used to calculate and optimize the embodied carbon of the highlighted construction projects.

Eric Liftin, founder and principal of MESH Architectures, will present Union Street Homes, the first mass-timber condominium in the New York region. The six-story, fourteen-unit building comprises glue-laminated timber columns, beams and floorplates. Mass timber—building with large components fashioned from fast-growing standard lumber—is a sustainable alternative to steel or concrete: it sequesters carbon, and softwood trees are quickly replenished.

Eric will touch upon how the sustainable attitude carries throughout the building. Passive-house-level performance is achieved with generous insulation, air sealing, triple-glazed windows, and energy-recovering ventilation. There is no combustion anywhere in the building. Heating is by high-efficiency heat pumps, and cooking is via induction. Parking spaces in back feature electric charging stations. Solar panels generate electricity on the roof.

Alan Scott, who brings several decades of sustainability experience, will share some relevant insights on concepts, strategies and opportunities related to embodied and operational carbon in pre-engineered buildings, including modular building.

Armstrong Ceiling’s Brett Sareyka,, will explore product solutions, specifically how drywall grid, a widely available and popular, prefabricated solution installs more easily, reduces labor time, and enables embodied carbon reduction on projects over traditional stud-and-track solutions. Drywall grid is manufactured from steel, which is highly recyclable, and has specific attributes in its shape and size that make it a great solution for hard lid ceilings, bulkheads and more.

The presentations will be followed by a moderated discussion focused on how these innovative sustainability projects and solutions address several key issues.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Discuss the various pre-engineered solutions incorporated into the featured projects and the realized sustainability benefits.
  2. Describe ways in which project teams can calculate and optimize embodied carbon.
  3. Explain how the highlighted projects demonstrate environmental, performance, cost, design, and safety advantages of pre-engineered construction approaches.
  4. List the individualized factors that influenced the architects’ decisions to specify the pre-engineered and conventional building products for each case study.

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