SEPTEMBER 26-27, 2019 • KIMPTON GRAY CHICAGO • CHICAGO, IL

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Accelerating the transition to carbon positive infrastructure, buildings, and materials.

The CarbonPositive’19 SUMMIT convened the leadership of the world’s most influential architecture, engineering and construction firms to establish a collective plan of action for addressing the environmental risks of unprecedented global construction and urbanization over the next four decades. This event focused on empowering the collaborations that will reorient and mobilize practice, policy and market demand to dramatically and rapidly reduce embodied carbon emissions in the global built environment.

The CarbonPositive’19 SUMMIT created the momentum for the CarbonPositive’20 CONFERENCE and Expo, which will explore how to plan, design, build, and manufacture a Carbon Positive future.

Sessions

Day 1

Opening Keynote:
CarbonPositive – The New Imperative 

Architecture 2030 Founder and CEO Edward Mazria framed the new imperative and opportunity for the building profession to lead an immediate global response to embodied carbon, creating carbon positive built environments.

Speed Round: Innovation in Core Materials 

Experts shared design opportunities and material innovations for dramatically reducing embodied carbon in a small but very influential set of materials – that that comprise building structure and urban infrastructure.

Workshop: Guiding CarbonPositive Design and Construction 

In arranged groups, participants developed high-impact and scalable design and construction guidance for the immediate, near, and long term.

Panel: Urban Environments, Densification, and Building Reuse 

Urban planning strategies, adaptive reuse and smart urban infill are effective in mitigating embodied carbon associated with new construction and development. Presentations followed by a panel discussion with Q&A explored best practices, material strategies, and policy incentives.

Day 2

Morning Keynote:
Scaling Impact 

Prashant Kapoor, Chief Industry Specialist for Green Buildings and Climate Smart Cities, shared lessons from creating IFC’s visionary Edge App and how to align significant sustainability gains with governments and markets at the global scale.

Panel: Innovation in Envelope Materials  

Aluminum, glass and insulation play a major role in a building’s performance and its embodied carbon footprint. Expert panel with Q&A explored how to win on both fronts.

Speed Round: CarbonPositive Design and Policy Tools

Presentations focused on the relative efficacy of emerging tools and policies for implementation, and their ability to scale quickly and globally.

Workshop: Advancing CarbonPositive Policy in Practice 

In arranged groups, participants outlined strategies for advancing and implementing the best tools in practice, policy, and regulation.

Call to Action 

Targets established will be integrated into the American Institute of Architects’ “AIA 2030 Commitment” (representing 625 firms) including reporting on embodied carbon emissions, and the newly launched Structural Engineers 2050 Challenge (SE 2050) will provide aligned commitments, reporting, and actions for achieving the targets.

Experts

Andrea Love, Payette
Anica Landreneau, HOK
Amy Hattan, Thornton Tomasetti
Arathi Gowda, SOM
Blaine Brownell, University of Minnesota
Brad Benke, McLennan Design
Carl Elefante, Quinn Evans Architects
Carole Wedge, Shepley Bulfinch
Dirk Kestner, Walter P Moore
Don Davies, MKA
Drew Wensley, MT Planners
Duncan Griffin, HDR
Edward Mazria, Architecture 2030
Frances Yang, Arup
Lisa Podesto, Lendlease
Lona Rerick, ZGF Architects
Ned Cramer, ARCHITECT Magazine
Prashant Kapoor, IFC-World Bank Group
Stacey Smedley, Skanska USA
Stephanie Carslisle, KieranTimberlake

Participating Firms

Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
American Institute of Architects
Arup
Ayers Saint Gross
BWBR
CallisonRTKL
CannonDesign
Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance
Clark Nexsen
ClimateWorks Foundation
CO Architects
Common Edge Collaborative
Cooper Carry
Cuningham Group Architecture
DLR Group
Ennead Architects
EskewDumezRipple
EwingCole
EYP Architecture & Engineering
Flad
FX Collaborative
Gensler
Goody Clancy
Gresham Smith
Hammel, Green, and Abrahamson (HGA)
Harley Ellis Devereaux

HDR
HKS
HLW
HMC Architects
HOK
Hord Coplan Macht
IFC-World Bank Group
Jacobs Engineering
KieranTimberlake
KL&A
KTGY
Lake|Flato Architects
LEAF Engineers
Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects
Lendlease – Timber and Innovations Group
LMN Architects
Long Green Specs
Lord Aeck Sargent
LPA Inc.
LS3P Associates
Magnusson Klemencic Associates
McLennan Design
MG2 Design
Mighty Earth
Mithun
National Community Renaissance

NBBJ
Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope
Page
Payette
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
Perkins+Will
POPULOUS
Quinn Evans Architects
RATIO Architects
RK Stewart Consultants
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Shepley Bulfinch
Siegel & Strain Architects
Skanska USA
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
Stantec
Studio NYL
The Delacorte Review
Thornton Tomasetti
Turner Construction Company
tvsdesign
Walsh Sustainability Group
Walter P Moore
WRNS
ZGF Architects

Sponsors

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