CLF British Columbia | Carbon Leadership Forum

The ZEIC team sends warm wishes for a wonderful holiday season. Thank you for your continued support and dedication to advancing a sustainable future. Here’s to a bright and impactful year ahead!

The 2025 Whole BuildingLife Cycle Assessment (LCA) Workshop tour kicks off soon! 👏 Starting in February, we’re traveling to cities across Canada to empower you with the knowledge and practical skills to assess and reduce GHG emissions in your projects. Be a part of this movement and join hundreds of your colleagues who have already been trained! Upcoming stops: 📍🗓️ Vancouver: Feb 3, 2025 📍🗓️ Calgary: Feb 5, 2025 📍🗓️ Regina: Feb 7, 2025 📍🗓️Halifax: May 22, 2025 📍🗓️ Montreal: May 31, 2025 Seats are limited— register now to secure your spot: https://lnkd.in/gwagW6YP #RAIC2024 #Architecture #LifeCycleAssessment #SustainableArchitecture #SustainableDesign

Winter Social: Celebrate the Season with CLF BC! Come join us for our final social of the year to round off 2024 by celebrating the season, sharing highlights, and looking ahead to the new year. Appetizers on us!  Register here: https://lnkd.in/g_6P7U8t

Meeting BC's affordability and climate crises head on will require a rethink in how we deliver housing. Enter the Local Government Offsite Housing Accelerator, which is pioneering off-site, pre-fabricated wood construction. Join us for a free webinar on December 10 from 10:00–11:30 a.m. (PST) to examine standardized coach & multiplex designs and permitting. We'll hear from architects, designers, and provincial and local governments about the path forward. https://lnkd.in/eEmwJUDa

NEW RESOURCES: Check out the newly released Building Industry Toolkit created by the City of Nelson's Low Carbon Homes Pilot! These accessible documents offer 10 Affordable Steps to Reduce Embodied Carbon on Building Projects for (1) energy advisors, (2) building officials, architects, engineers, & designers, and (4) homeowners. Find the toolkit here: https://lnkd.in/g_wJgKu5. FREE TRAINING: BC building design professionals can also access free BEAM Estimator training through the City of Nelson's Low Carbon Homes Pilot. This funding covers the costs for practicing or studying energy advisors, building designers, architects, engineers, or building officials in British Columbia to take the BEAM certification course. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gF68NdrW

Are you a building design professional in BC who wants to integrate embodied carbon considerations into your practice? Look no further than this free training offered by Builders for Climate Action through the City of Nelson's Low Carbon Homes Pilot!

Join CLF BC Program Manager Stephanie Dalo at this upcoming webinar! Recognizing the critical role we play in the design and construction of building, many of you have embraced the transition towards operational carbon reduction and designing higher performing buildings. While there have been remarkable improvements in operational performance, there is a growing awareness and urgency to better understand the embodied carbon of building materials, and a need to measure and reduce these emissions as well. Join BC Association of Building Designers for an Embodied Carbon 101 session to learn more about embodied carbon, why it plays a significant role in building decarbonization, and how CLF BC can be a resource to support the BCABD community in achieving our mission of providing safe, affordable, and sustainable buildings. During the session, you will also hear about the Near Zero 2 (NZ2) Program (https://lnkd.in/eR9Zf52n) and how you can earn up to $70,000 for building a Large Part 9 building that minimizes its embodied emissions. 

Curious about how CLF BC aims to accelerate embodied carbon reduction in buildings? We recently caught up with some of our incredible CLF BC community at our five-year celebration to hear their thoughts on what we do — and why it matters. Want to learn more about how you can reduce emissions in your next project? Sign up for our upcoming webinar here: https://lnkd.in/guVp2QsW

Upcoming Event 📢 There is currently a growing trend in the construction industry to specify materials with low embodied carbon emissions to help decarbonize the building sector and achieve net zero emissions by 2050. CLF BC is cohosting the ZEBx Decarb Lunch this month featuring Tom Place of EQUILIBRIUM who will describe how to minimize carbon emissions of steel, concrete and mass timber in North America by understanding the key influence of project location, transportation, and regional availability of materials. Attendees will gain knowledge that will benefit their own projects in terms of time, cost, and carbon and help drive industrywide improvement through the smarter selection of materials. This session will highlight pitfalls and unintended consequences from green material specification and explain how to avoid creating increased carbon emissions and supply chain issues from inefficient materials sourcing both today and with new future technologies. Thanks to the financial support of the City of Vancouver and North Family Foundation, this event is free of charge. Register now: https://lnkd.in/ghfXYJWk

Thank you to the building industry and local governments who joined in celebrating the fifth anniversary of Carbon Leadership Forum British Columbia - you all made this an event we won’t forget! With the ongoing leadership of founder, Anthony Pak, the dedication of the CLF BC volunteers, the generosity of our past and current funders and event sponsors, and a growing building industry network who support our mission, what started as the Embodied Carbon Network Vancouver in 2019 has grown to become CLF BC – BC's very own Embodied Carbon Centre of Excellence. Special shout-out to the event sponsors and program funders that helped make this event successful: Perkins&Will VEMA Deconstruction British Columbia Institute of Technology Glotman Simpson Consulting Engineers Edge Consultants ZGF Architects Ryder Architecture City of Vancouver North Family Foundation We look forward to the next five years of building community for impact, improving data and methods, informing effective and just policy & standards, and celebrating the ten-year milestone together once we get there! Read more here: https://lnkd.in/guC5nRUZ