Build With Strength’s Director, Building Innovations, Brandon Wray, presented at three separate events last week to a total of over 1,200 attendees. The first topic, Embodied Carbon: Deeper Decarbonization of the Built Environment, was presented jointly with the New Buildings Institute (NBI) and Buro Happold. The second, Economic, Sustainable, and Resilient Design of ICF Walls, was targeted for the National Council of Structural Engineering Associations (NCSEA) and presented by Wray and his BWS colleague, Donn Thompson, senior director, building innovations. Lastly, Wray and Evan Reis from the U.S. Resiliency Council (USRC) presented Resilient Design: Performance of Structural Materials to the Structural Engineering Association of Southern California (SEAOSC).
Sustainability, Resiliency, and Insulated Concrete Forms (ICF) represent three of the most prominent topics regarding concrete materials and construction in the present day design build environment. Developers, architects and engineers, along with local, state and federal government groups, are all vying for strategies to tackle climate change through reducing the embodied carbon of the built environment. NRMCA and Build With Strength continue to be a prominent expert resource for the industry in guiding stakeholders to strategies and processes to advance concrete as the preferred sustainable and resilient building material.
The NBI presentation can be viewed here, NCSEA here and SEAOSC here. For more information regarding the presentations, contact Brandon Wray at bwray@nrmca.org.
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