Embodied CO2e (Andy Shapiro and Jacob Racusin)

Andy Shapiro has a barefoot engineering degree from Brown University and is President for Life of Energy Balance, Inc. Jacob Racusin is an embodied carbon researcher with Builders for Climate Action and New Frameworks and is a killer sax player. They will dive into operational and embodied CO2e and their effects on the atmosphere over time for a pair of dormitory/apartment buildings in Vermont that were designed and constructed to be “net zero ready”. Design and material strategies, successes, failures, and lessons learned will be presented.

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