RAIC launches Life Cycle Assessment training workshops

RAIC is partnering with the National Research Council of Canada in a one-year rapid-deployment project to train members of the Canadian architectural community through a hands-on case study-based Whole Building Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) curriculum.

The Canadian built environment is the third-highest source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. As a result, this partnership aims to address the need to accelerate the knowledge, skills and competencies of professionals who design Canada’s buildings.

The curriculum will provide an estimate of the total GHG emissions associated with a building which includes emissions due to operations, and those associated with the extraction, manufacturing, transport, installation, replacement, and end of service life for products and materials used in a building.

The RAIC is proud to collaborate with Ha/f Climate Design to organize the in-person training workshops, on LCA sessions for practicing industry professionals.

Participants will have the opportunity to engage in a hands-on workshop and learn the basics of how to perform an assessment in a small group, following a theory-based lecture on LCA, embodied carbon, and related methodologies.

The workshops will be held between September 2024 and May 2025 in various locations across Canada including Ottawa, Toronto, Saint Andrews, Winnipeg, Regina, Vancouver, Calgary, Halifax and Montreal. An online option will also be available.

“As architects, it is our responsibility to build and design with environmental leadership as an underpinning value and principle. Focused on our purpose to create a better world for all, this partnership with the National Research Council of Canada is one step in the right direction for the building sector to decarbonize at rapid scale and to accelerate the pace of climate action needed for Canada to achieve its 2030 and 2050 targets,” said  Jason Robbins, FRAIC, past president of the RAIC.

This workshop is designed for architectural professionals who would like to learn about Life Cycle Assessment and how to reduce embodied carbon in real-life projects.

For more information or to register, click here.

 

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