Hayes Slade, Anna Dyson (Yale CEA), and Sharon Prince (Grace Farms Foundation) presented “Ethical Decarbonization and Our Building Materials: Constructing a New Future” at the AIA Conference on Architecture this past summer in Washington DC this

Architects are positioned to play a critical role in removing embodied emissions associated with the lifecycle of building materials, from the extraction of raw materials to demolition. In pursuit of ethical decarbonization, Forbes [DO2]cites how this urgent call to action is perhaps the most comprehensive to date and a significant step toward the construction sector’s net-zero ambitions.

In this session, leading experts and architects will explain how to activate and accelerate this transformational shift through strategies like avoiding waste and new extraction by moving to a circular economy, shifting to earth- and bio-based building materials, and improving the decarbonation of cement, steel, and aluminum!