The City of Toronto has collaborated with consultants Mantle Developments and Ha/f Climate Design through a TAF-funded study to develop an embodied carbon toolkit for municipal governments and construction projects.
The toolkit presents recommendations to manage embodied carbon over three key topics:
- Construction circularity
- Urban design
- Procurement of low-carbon materials
The toolkit recommendations were developed in cooperation with working groups consisting of dozens of City of Toronto staff across various departments and include extensive LCA modelling, research into current approaches, and best practices. They were also tested through a number of pilot projects.
This webinar will provide background context and introduce the Toolkit, inviting Ontario municipalities to consider using it to reduce embodied carbon on future projects.
Learning Outcomes:
- Introduction / refresh of key concepts related to building emissions, life cycle emissions terminology landing on importance of embodied carbon.
- Context setting and overview of the City of Toronto’s efforts to manage operational energy and emissions and, most recently, upfront embodied carbon, including benchmarking report and current toolkit development.
- Participants will be introduced to the new embodied carbon management toolkit and learn how to integrate its use into their work and customize it for the audience.
- Roll-play how project teams could apply the toolkit to achieve embodied carbon reductions and activities customized to audiences.