Whole Life Carbon Training

Are you interested in learning how to quantify the carbon emissions associated with your building designs?

The CO₂ emissions from constructing and operating our buildings are estimated to contribute around 39% of global CO₂ emissions. The embodied carbon in our building materials alone contributes around 11% and may exceed 230 gigatons by 2060*. It is essential that we learn to understand where the hotspots are in the lifecycle of a building in order to address them.

Life Cycle Assessment of Carbon in Buildings, looking at both embodied and operational carbon is due to become an EU regulatory requirement in the coming years as the draft EPBD (Energy Performance of Buildings Directive) schedules it as mandatory for buildings over 1,000m2 in 2027 and all buildings by 2030. 

The Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage has recommended that a Whole Life Carbon assessment should be a requirement as part of the planning permission process.
 

It is important to keep up to date on this changing aspect of our built environment. 

Join our hybrid course. Watch the on-demand videos at your own pace and ask questions at the live Q&A session.

Link for more info and to book: https://www.igbc.ie/courses-od/ 

Date: 30th November  

Time: 12 noon 

Price: €89 Members 

           €189 Non-members

Live online session

Feedback – Q&A session. This session will include a demo of the OneClick LCA software, and a demo of the Carbon Designer for Ireland tool, followed by a Q&A based on the content of the videos.

Trainer: Stephen Barrett, Whole Life Carbon Project Lead at IGBC. Stephen has an MSC. in Sustainability and adaptation in the Built Environment and has worked as an LCA (Life Cycle Analysis) Specialist contractor.

*Sources:

• https://www.worldgbc.org/news-media/WorldGBC-embodied-carbon-report-published
• https://www.buildup.eu/en/practices/publications/embodied-carbon-review-embodied-carbon-reduction-100-regulations-and-rating

This training is funded by Life Level(s) project, grant agreement number LIFE 18 GIE/ES/000911 Life for LLL(s) and co-funded by Department of Environment, Climate and Communications,  and the  Building Life project.