Webinars

To achieve decarbonization, a fully electric building must account for the carbon footprint of its electricity sources.  In this webinar, we look at how grid-scale BESS penetration impacts the renewable energy mix for utility customers in the US, and we discuss how batteries as distributed energy resources (DERs) fill in the gaps on a building’s carbon balance sheet.

This Stanford BDLA webinar uses the AIA National Headquarters Renovation in Washington, D.C. as a case study for one of the first fully decarbonized major renovations in the US.

These presentations examine the current state and future trajectory of large-scale additive construction, and cover the advancements and advantages of off-site construction in housing.

In 2007, Infosys founders greenlit an “unreasonable goal” to slash energy use by 50%. This is the story of how their vision grew into 50 million sq ft of green buildings, saving over $240 million.

This presentation will give an overview of how cement is made, some of the key decarbonization strategies, and take a deep dive on why LC3 (Limestone Calcined Clay Cement) is a promising solution. It will also describe what the ClimateWorks Foundation and Global Industry Hub are doing to make this change happen.

Director of the Climate and Energy Policy Program, Michael Wara, a lawyer, scholar, and advisor in sustainability policy will discuss the challenges and solutions of wide scale building decarbonization.

Autodesk’s sustainability solutions give architects and designers practical tools to reduce carbon emissions through smart design choices.

EcoBlock is a pilot research project that explores decarbonizing buildings at the neighborhood block level with the aim to lift up all neighbors.

In an effort to increase the adoption of building decarbonization content into curricula across the continent, Robin Puttock crafted Teaching Carbon Neutral Design in North America to highlight the many existing diverse and innovative methodologies, each detailed in a chapter written by an international award-winning professor in this field.

The built and natural environment create the physical context within which we live our daily lives. It can be designed to protect society from environmental toxins (such as traffic-related air pollution or high concentrations of airborne viruses like SARS-CoV-2) and to make health-promoting behaviors the obvious choice (such as safely walking to school).

Join the Stanford BDLA and Impact Hub New York Metropolitan Area to take a close look at building decarbonization in action with New York City’s Local Law 97.

Global warming, air pollution, and energy insecurity are three of the most significant problems facing the world today. This talk discusses the development of technical and economic roadmaps to solve these problems across 149 countries and all 50 states, including California.

Bank Black & Green works to flow capital away from systems invested in mass incarceration and the fossil fuel industry

The Stanford Building Decarbonization Learning Accelerator (BDLA) will host a 1-hour webinar with experts from RMI and Stanford University.

The Stanford Building Decarbonization Learning Accelerator (BDLA) will host a 1-hour webinar with experts from the Building Decarbonization Coalition.

40% of global emissions come from the built environment, yet we now see a path beyond zero to buildings absorbing gigatons of carbon every year. Bruce King gave a talk about building technologies both new and ancient that can provide all of our needs as well as help heal the climate.

However, decarbonization has the opportunity to exacerbate existing inequalities in health and income or start to address these inequities. This webinar reviewed the risks of continuing as the industry has over the last decade and how equitable solutions can accelerate decarbonization in residential and commercial properties.