06-23-2026
Learning Objectives
1. Describe how building reuse + upgrade addresses two fundamental climate goals simultaneously: reduced operational greenhouse gas emissions in existing buildings and avoided embodied carbon emissions from new construction.
2. Identify where embodied carbon is located in a building.
3. Summarize how different building types affect carbon emissions.
4. Compare embodied and operating emissions and how they impact emissions over time.
5. Demonstrate how the CARE Tool can be used to estimate avoided operational and embodied carbon emissions associated with reusing and upgrading a building vs replacing it with new construction.
Comments
Great class ,but I would like to see a model of cost per BTU for electric vs cost per BTU for gas.
Petervery good
Donaldgreat
CynthyEnjoyed it
AntoineVery informative - lots of great info!
MarilynGreat Course! Siegel and Strain Architects is doing great work.
SeemaGood - the info and the presenter's style of speaking. But I won't tell my daughter about your hitting the wrong button a few times - she gets on my case enough. Bad - good grief! The end video of answering questions kept stalling and stopping. I had to skip parts to go forwards.
RuthWhat’s better than a new net zero building? A net zero existing building.
$40
Reusing buildings, even ones that have been renovated and upgraded, generates less total carbon emissions than building new ones. In this session we’ll address a couple of myths about reuse, consider what we should be saving and what types of new buildings we should avoid building. We’ll show examples of reuse projects that take into account both embodied and operating carbon emissions. We’ll give a demonstration of the CARE Tool, an early-stage design tool for estimating the carbon benefits of reusing and upgrading an existing building compared to replacing it with new a new one.
Credits: 1 AIA LU HSW + 1 GBCI (USGBC/CAGBC) + 1 AIBD Primary + 1 Net Zero (ZNCD) + 1 Sustainable Design + 1 AIBC Core LU + 1 AAA Structured LU + 1 OAA, OAQ, SAA, MAA, AAPEI, NWTAA + 1 Climate Action (OAA)
Length: 1 hour
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What’s better than a new net zero building? A net zero existing building.
$40
Reusing buildings, even ones that have been renovated and upgraded, generates less total carbon emissions than building new ones. In this session we’ll address a couple of myths about reuse, consider what we should be saving and what types of new buildings we should avoid building. We’ll show examples of reuse projects that take into account both embodied and operating carbon emissions. We’ll give a demonstration of the CARE Tool, an early-stage design tool for estimating the carbon benefits of reusing and upgrading an existing building compared to replacing it with new a new one.
Credits: 1 AIA LU HSW + 1 GBCI (USGBC/CAGBC) + 1 AIBD Primary + 1 Net Zero (ZNCD) + 1 Sustainable Design + 1 AIBC Core LU + 1 AAA Structured LU + 1 OAA, OAQ, SAA, MAA, AAPEI, NWTAA + 1 Climate Action (OAA)
Length: 1 hour
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Learning Objectives
1. Describe how building reuse + upgrade addresses two fundamental climate goals simultaneously: reduced operational greenhouse gas emissions in existing buildings and avoided embodied carbon emissions from new construction.
2. Identify where embodied carbon is located in a building.
3. Summarize how different building types affect carbon emissions.
4. Compare embodied and operating emissions and how they impact emissions over time.
5. Demonstrate how the CARE Tool can be used to estimate avoided operational and embodied carbon emissions associated with reusing and upgrading a building vs replacing it with new construction.
Comments
Great class ,but I would like to see a model of cost per BTU for electric vs cost per BTU for gas.
Petervery good
Donaldgreat
CynthyEnjoyed it
AntoineVery informative - lots of great info!
MarilynGreat Course! Siegel and Strain Architects is doing great work.
SeemaGood - the info and the presenter's style of speaking. But I won't tell my daughter about your hitting the wrong button a few times - she gets on my case enough. Bad - good grief! The end video of answering questions kept stalling and stopping. I had to skip parts to go forwards.
Ruth
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