Reducing Embodied Carbon and Enhancing Health with LEED v5 Materials and Resources
What’s covered
This session will be registered for GBCI CE credit
Are you interested in reducing the embodied carbon and waste of your buildings footprint? Curious how you can use LEED Materials and Resources credits can accelerate these initiatives?
With the construction, remodeling and demolition of buildings accounting for over a third of all solid waste, it is imperative that the built environment move toward a more circular future. This session introduces the new LEED v5 rating systems (BD+C, ID+C, and O+M) and how they position buildings to be part of the solution for critical environmental and social imperatives. The session will review the high level changes from LEED v4/v4.1 and share the available tools and resources to support green building professionals.
The presentation will review into the Materials and Resources (MR) category in LEED v5 which focuses on reducing embodied carbon, protecting human and environmental health, and fostering a circular economy by emphasizing multi-attribute product selection and procurement. The MR credits support strategies for high-impact actions like supply chain decarbonization, low-embodied carbon material selection, and building reuse. Additionally, they enhance indoor environmental quality by promoting low-emitting materials, and prioritize reuse and waste diversion. LEED v5 empowers practitioners to make practical, high-impact choices that cut embodied carbon emissions, improve health outcomes, and advance a sustainable market
This session is sponsored by USGBC. Sponsored breakouts are sponsor-created and hosted sessions, created independently by the sponsor without input from Trellis. Please note that attendee contact information will be shared with the sponsoring company.
