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September 9, 2024

Topic- Embodied Carbon Management Toolkit – Training Workshop for Ontario Municipalities

Date & Time: Oct 25 2024, 10:30 AM - 12 Noon

Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PErdLbuiRVSksWmRDAOGFQ

The City of Toronto has been collaborating with consultants Mantle Developments and Ha/f Climate Design through a TAF-funded study to develop an embodied carbon toolkit for municipal governments and construction projects. 

The toolkit presents recommendations to manage embodied carbon over three key topics: 

1. Construction circularity: reuse of existing structures and materials to minimize embodied carbon while reducing waste and minimizing resource consumption. 

2. Urban design: design new buildings in the most carbon-efficient ways and avoid unintended consequences associated with high-carbon design features like transfer structures and setbacks. 

3. Procurement of low-carbon materials: request low-carbon materials and construction processes in building and infrastructure design and construction. 

 

The toolkit recommendations were developed in cooperation with working groups consisting of dozens of City of Toronto staff across various departments, through extensive LCA modelling, included research into current approaches and best practices, and were tested by working with a number of pilot projects.

This webinar will provide background context and introduce the Toolkit, inviting Ontario municipalities to consider using it to reduce embodied carbon on future projects. 

Learning Outcomes:

1. Introduction / refresh of key concepts related to building emissions, life cycle emissions terminology landing on importance of embodied carbon.

2. Context setting and overview of City of Toronto efforts to manage operational energy and  emissions and most recently, upfront embodied carbon, including benchmarking report and current toolkit development. 

3. Participants will be introduced to the new embodied carbon management toolkit and learn how to integrate its use into their work, customized by audience.

4. Roll-play how the application of the toolkit could be used by project teams to result in embodied carbon reductions, activity customized to audiences.