Oct 2024 Decarb Lunch: Marpole Community Centre

Marpole Community Centre – Achieving 40% Embodied Carbon Reductions on Passive House Designs

Past Event: Oct 10, 2024 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

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Overview

Are you interested in projects that demonstrate feasible ways to reduce embodied carbon?

This Decarb Lunch features the Passive House certified Marpole Community Centre, which served as a pilot project to test the City of Vancouver Embodied Carbon Guidelines.

Forest Borch from reLoad Sustainable Design and Caroline Inglis from Diamond Schmitt Architects outlined how the project team worked together to meet their ambitious embodied carbon reduction goal and shared five key lessons learned that demonstrate that achieving the City of Vancouver’s target of a 40% reduction of embodied carbon in new buildings by 2030 can be achieved today!

Thanks to the financial support of BC Hydro and the City of Vancouver, this event was free of charge.

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Speakers

Caroline Inglis, Architect, Diamond Schmitt

Caroline is a Vancouver based architect with expertise in sustainability and accessibility. She is a certified Passive House Designer, a LEED Accredited Professional in Building Design & Construction, and is a member of Diamond Schmitt’s Sustainability Committee where she plays a vital role in helping project teams achieve ambitious sustainability targets. Caroline is Diamond Schmitt’s first Rick Hansen Foundation Accessibility Certification (RHFAC) Accredited Professional and shares her knowledge on creating inclusive spaces with the firm. This range of expertise has come to a forefront with her work on the Marpole Community Centre which will be the most accessible and high-performance building in the City of Vancouver’s portfolio. This project has helped the City of Vancouver to set the standard for achieving the City’s 2030 Climate Goals. It is also the first RHFAC Gold community centre in the City of Vancouver and will be a precedent for all future community projects for the City.

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Forest Borch, Project Manager, Reload Sustainable Design

Forest Borch is a sustainability consulting engineer who works with project teams to improve energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions from building operations. As a reLoad’s Embodied Carbon Lead, Forest leads project teams to reduce embodied carbon of building materials for Zero Carbon Building, LEED, and various other building design standards. Along with his passion for solving problems concerning climate change, Forest’s lived experience building straw bale homes and installing HVAC equipment informs his personal approach to whole building systems design. Forest is a member of the Carbon Leadership Forum (CLF) BC and leads the Bio Based Materials Collective Regulation Group, helping empower industry professionals to radically reduce embodied carbon in the building industry.

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Host

Natalie Douglas, ZEBx Program Manager, ZEIC

Stephanie Dalo, CLF BC Program Manager, ZEIC

Susan MacDougall, Focal Engineering