The Construction Record – Episode 207: UBC’s Embodied Carbon Pilot with Diana Lopez

On this episode of the Construction Record Podcast, digital media editor Warren Frey speaks with Diana Lopez, a Campus Living Lab research manager with the University of British Columbia’s (UBC) Sustainability Initiative.

Lopez talked about the UBC Embodied Carbon Pilot program, a multi-year research study on the practice of conducting life cycle assessments (LCA) to quantify embodied carbon emissions from Building materials. She also explained the practice of whole-building LCA, where the entire building is considered holistically in an LCA exercise.

Lopez also addressed the learning opportunities for practitioners stemming from the pilot, the role of mass-timber and explained strategies to reduce embodied carbon in buildings.

You can listen to The Construction Record on the Daily Commercial News and Journal of Commerce websites as well as on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Amazon Music’s podcast, and you can listen to our interview with BIM Academy senior consultant Melanie Robinson about the work the consultancy is doing to create digital modeling for the $1.72 billion New Surrey Hospital and Care Centre here. Thanks for listening.