Altered Carbon: A’18 Focuses on Carbon Reduction Through Building Design
Emily Pollock posted on July 02, 2018 | | 131 views
A’18, which took place at New York’s Javits Center, focussed heavily on global climate change and carbon reduction. (Image courtesy of author.)
On June 20, the day before the American Institute for Architecture (AIA) kicked off its 2018 conference, the organization announced that its 2030 Commitment was open to engineers. The announcement set the scene for a conference that focused on carbon neutral building practices.
The AIA’s 2030 challenge gives architects (and now engineers) a framework against which to measure their carbon reduction, with the goal of designing completely carbon neutral buildings by the year 2030. At the time of the AIA’s announcement, there were 522 architectural firms publicly signed onto the commitment. In allowing engineers to join the commitment, the organization hopes to increase its impact.
“Architects want to work with engineers that are working towards these shared goals through the 2030 Commitment’s tools and framework,” said Nate Kipnis, the 2030 Working Group co-chair, in a statement the organization released.” We look forward to working with engineers to meet these challenging and important goals.”
While the AIA announced five workshops directly addressing carbon reduction during the conference, the question of carbon neutrality permeated far beyond those workshops. The conference…