The Stanford Building Decarbonization Learning Accelerator (BDLA) hosts workshops for professors who are interested in incorporating the BDLA teaching materials into their existing curriculum or developing a new building decarbonization course.
Upcoming Webinars
LC3: A Globally Scalable Solution for Low Carbon Concrete
November 13, 2025 11am-12pm PT
Concrete is responsible for 8% of global CO2 emissions, not because it is particularly high emitting, but because we use more of it than any other material on earth. Any solution must be affordable and must be able to scale globally in all regions, in particular in low income countries where most cement will be consumed. 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.
Scott Shell is a Strategist with the ClimateWorks Foundation and the Global Industry Hub working to decarbonize heavy industry around the world including cement, concrete, and steel. Scott is a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects and spent most of his career as a partner at EHDD Architecture in San Francisco. He led the design of many university research buildings and independent schools, including a number of the first net-zero energy buildings in collaboration with a talented team of architects and engineers.
The “Unreasonable” Goal: How Infosys Proved Radical Efficiency is Radically Profitable
December 11, 2025 11am-12pm PT
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. They didn’t keep the blueprint secret. They shared their learnings, inspiring and pressuring an entire industry to transform. Come learn how this open-source approach to sustainability reshaped Indian real estate and helped rewrite national energy policy.
Rohan Parikh is the former Head of Sustainability at Infosys, where he architected the foundational ‘Net Zero’ strategy for its “Unreasonable Goals,” saving the company over $240 million. After proving sustainability is profitable, his mission expanded to shaping India’s Solar Open Access Policy. He is a co-inventor of a patented radiant cooling system and holds a Master’s in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Previous Webinars
Policy Challenges to Cost-Effective Building Decarbonization
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.
Driving Sustainability with Autodesk: Tools for Low-Carbon Design
Autodesk’s sustainability solutions give architects and designers practical tools to reduce carbon emissions through smart design choices.
EcoBlock: An Urban Block-Scale Decarbonization Retrofit
EcoBlock is a pilot research project that explores decarbonizing buildings at the neighborhood block level with the aim to lift up all neighbors.
Teaching Carbon Neutral Design: Twenty Unique Perspectives
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.
Architectural Epidemiology: Exploring Health Impacts of Building Decarbonization Through Experimental Exposure Pathways
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).
Local Law 97: Implementing New York City’s Groundbreaking Emissions Reduction Law
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.
BDLA Monthly Webinar: Transitioning California and the World to 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything
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.
BDLA Monthly Webinar: Boosting Energy Autonomy Through Decarbonization with Hip Hop Caucus
Bank Black & Green works to flow capital away from systems invested in mass incarceration and the fossil fuel industry
BDLA Monthly Webinar: Cooking Up Clarity – Insights on Gas Stoves and their Influence on Indoor Air Quality
The Stanford Building Decarbonization Learning Accelerator (BDLA) will host a 1-hour webinar with experts from RMI and Stanford University.
BDLA Monthly Webinar: Building Decarbonization Goes Mainstream – How a Quarter of the US Adopted Electrification Policies
The Stanford Building Decarbonization Learning Accelerator (BDLA) will host a 1-hour webinar with experts from the Building Decarbonization Coalition.
BDLA Monthly Webinar: Build Beyond Zero
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.
BDLA Monthly Webinar: Accelerating Decarbonization with Equity and the Risks of Not
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.