Using the PHPP to Assess Operational Carbon Emissions - Ed May

Operational Carbon emissions due to building energy use are a key contributor to global climate change and designers should work to reduce these emissions in all projects. The Passive House Planning Package is incredibly useful at estimating building energy-use, but how do we effectively translate those results into operational carbon emissions?
This session will look at the key outputs from the PHPP relevant to carbon-emission modeling, and review the process for converting these energy-usage values into CO2-equivalent emissions. We will discuss the nature and structure of the US utility grids, where to find reliable grid-emissions data for your region, and best practice for calculating building-scale emissions. We will also discuss where the PHPP assumptions and defaults (hot-water, plug-loads, occupancy, etc) may need to be adjusted in order to deliver useful results. We will finish by briefly looking at more advanced topics such as marginal-emissions modeling and considerations around mechanical system components and in-site renewable energy generation.

Emodied Carbon 101 Building - Auro Jensen

This introductory session will cover the basics of embodied carbon frameworks, methods, and compare the benefits and drawbacks of the common tools EC3, Tally and OneClick LCA.

Erin Gleeson is an independent curator, writer and art historian based in Minneapolis. They direct the residency program FD13 which invites artists to Mní Sóta Makhóčhe to develop new work and present it live, most recently with Kablusiak and Yee I-Lann. Erin is a Lecturer in Critical Theory and Curatorial Studies within the Interdisciplinary Arts and Social Practice area of the Department of Art, University of Minnesota, an Advisor at Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, and a Mentor with Emerging Curator's Institute, Minneapolis. She has made exhibitions, programs and talks in collaboration with Experimenta Curator's Hub, Kolkata; Artspeak, Vancouver; Jeu de Paume, Paris; CAPC, Bordeaux; ifa, Berlin and Stuttgart; Asia Art Archive in America; MoMA, New York; Asia Culture Center, Gwangju; Independent Curators International; Center for Contemporary Art, Singapore, among others. Recent and upcoming curatorial projects include FREETIME, a performance directed by Anocha Suwichakornpong, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2021); Comeback Kid, a solo by Nicholas Grafia, Silverlens, Manila (2022), and the multi-venue program Deathpower (2023-24). Erin's writing has been published by Urban Research, Sternberg Press, Mousse, Art Asia Pacific, Gwangju Biennale, Documenta, among others. She was an Alphawood Scholar and holds an MA, Contemporary Art and Art Theory of Asia and Africa, SOAS, University of London (2015-2017). From 2011-2018, Erin was co-founding director and curator of SA SA BASSAC, a non-profit art center in Phnom Penh.

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Brian McGrath is an architect with forty years of research and practice. The focus of his work is urban adaptation and change from social justice and ecological resilient perspectives. McGrath is a Principle Investigator in the Baltimore Ecosystem Study, where since 2005, he led the Urban Design Working Group. His books and publications include: Genealogy of Bassac (2021), Patch Atlas (2020),, Urban Design Ecologies Reader, (2012), Digital Modeling for Urban Design (2008), Transparent Cities (1994), Resilience in Ecology and Urban Design (2012), Growing Cities in a Shrinking World: The Challenges in India and China (2010), Sensing the 21st Century City (2007), and Cinemetrics: Architectural Drawing Today (2007).

McGrath served as a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Thailand in 1998-99 and an India China Institute Fellow in 2006-2008 and was Research Director in the joint US-EU exchange program Urbanisms of Inclusion, and more recently Scientific Advisor for Designing Brussels Ecosystem.