When:
April 12, 2022 – April 13, 2022 all-day
2022-04-12T00:00:00-06:00
2022-04-14T00:00:00-06:00
Contact:
Urban Design Utah/AIA Utah
Join us for a two half day virtual symposium inspiring innovative design solutions for a carbon-neutral future. The virtual speakers on the second day will be followed by an on-site tour of the Arch Nexus office remodel project which is slated for certification as the first Living Building Challenge commercial facility in Utah.
Educational credit for all presentations are pending approval through AIA, national offices.
Agenda
Tuesday April 12
- 8:30 AM Richard Pinyon, Soren Simonsen – AIA, Urban Design Utah Committee
- 8:40 AM Chris Magwood – Builders for Climate Action & Endeavour Center, Achieving Real Zero Carbon Building
- 9:50 AM 10 min Break
- 10:00 AM Ajla Aksamija – University of Utah Chair, School of Architecture, Decarbonizing the Built Environment Through Regenerative Design: Achieving Net-Zero Energy in Existing Buildings
- 11:00 AM Victoria Herrero, Ambient Energy
- 11:45 AM Matthew Mead – Hempitecture, Hemp Insulation: A Carbon Negative Alternative
- 12:30 PM Richard Pinyon, Soren Simonsen – AIA, Urban Design Utah Committee
- 12:32 PM END
Wednesday April 13
- 8:30 AM Richard Pinyon, Soren Simonsen – AIA, Urban Design Utah Committee
- 8:40 AM Brad Benke – Carbon Leadership Forum, Architecture’s Carbon Problem, and the AIA-CLF Embodied Carbon Toolkit for Architects
- 9:50 AM 10 min Break
- 10:00 AM Darren McAvoy – Utah State University Forestry Extension, Biochar in Utah
- 11:00 AM Kevin Emerson – Utah Clean Energies, Building Decarbonization in Utah
- 11:45 AM Pamela Yonkin – HDR, Sustainability Planning for Transportation Agencies
- 12:30 PM Richard Pinyon, Soren Simonsen – AIA, Urban Design Utah Committee
- 12:32 PM END
- 1:30 PM TOUR Kenner Kingston – Arch Nexus Living Building Challenge
