What are the panelists thoughts on existing buildings? How can the design and construction community focus more on the existing building stock, rather than full new construction?

including solar panels

Can we reuse or recycle solar panels?

yup - agree. Less structure could actually cost less

LEED and other rating systems could start offering much more credit/points for doing embodied carbon analyses. This is making its way into these systems already, but maybe we need a lot more to help garner owner/developer interest

Thank you so much for this conversation! Was great to in on :) Sadly, have to leave early

Agreed! Let's get developers on board!

https://www.payette.com/kaleidoscope/

https://epic.ehdd.com/?trk=public_post_share-update_update-text

https://www.buildingtransparency.org/

https://www.zgf.com/ideas/2493-lca-calculator-reduces-concrete-s-embodied-carbon

https://carbonleadershipforum.org/tools-for-measuring-embodied-carbon/

https://se2050.org/ecom-tool/

https://www.master-builders-solutions.com/en-us/sustainability

https://carbonleadershipforum.org/

https://carbonleadershipforum.org/girl-scouts-climate-ideas/

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Martin is working with us at Austin Energy Green Building to encorporate EC measures in the ratings.

https://carbonleadershipforum.org/clf-carbon-policy-toolkit/#map

https://www.speakupaustin.org/community-climate-plan