Photo by Kelly Pilgrim Byrne, from Perth Design Week 2023.

Presented by Perth Design Week in collaboration with climate advocate Ross Donaldson and the Australian Institute of Architects

If we are to have any chance of avoiding the potentially catastrophic impacts from climate change we must target at least 50% reduction in carbon emissions from the economy by 2030.

With cities and the construction industry contributing nearly 40% of these emissions, the imperative for the design professions and regulators to build their capacity for the designing of carbon out of our buildings is now urgent.

These two sessions will focus precisely on this capacity building with practical guides and case study examples for identifying where the carbon is and how to design it out!

Part Two

Thursday 21st March

John Noel

Lead embodied carbon, Arup Australia

Topic - in 2023 Arup released a report “Net zero buildings: halving construction emissions today”. This session will focus on how this can be achieved with today’s available systems and materials.

Tom Petty

Founder CarbonTrace, Melbourne Australia

Topic - Residential building: CarbonTrace has a data base of embodied carbon in 1 Million houses built in the last ten years and will illustrate how to reduce the upfront carbon in residential buildings, making it look easy!! Tom will also discuss cheaper green financing and the coming mandatory requirement for companies reporting their scope three emissions, including banks.

Registration for Part Two via link here.

Ticket price of $20 includes lunchbox and juice from Shop 1875 at The State Buildings.

Supported by Kone.