Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA) will be running two educational sessions around embodied carbon and scope three emissions to help attendees reach their learning goals.

Whether new to the world of embodied carbon or someone looking for a more in-depth educational experience, the upcoming courses will expand knowledge on all expertise levels around the industry’s most pressing sustainability challenge.

Held on 29 August, 2023 from 12.30 to 2.30pm AEST, ‘Embodied Carbon 101’ will provide core learnings at an introductory level, explaining terminology, basic calculations, material overviews and organisational responses to scope three emissions.

For those more advanced on their embodied carbon journey, the masterclass on 7 September, 2023 from 12.30 to 4.30pm AEST will allow for a deeper dive into areas relating to measurement, products and materials to provide practical and actionable steps to address embodied carbon.

These two highly interactive sessions will feature real-world case studies and informative presentations from leading experts in the space. Attendees will learn about the scale and significance of embodied carbon, examine drivers and barriers for reducing it and explore innovative technologies and approaches to low embodied carbon design thinking, with case studies and examples scaled to suit existing knowledge.

Key themes include methodologies tools and data for measuring and benchmarking, new innovations in low-carbon materials and how to select materials, effectively engaging the supply chain to ensure the optimal decarbonised design and learning from low embodied carbon projects.