Program areas at Architecture 2030
Climate positive design for urban planning and landscapes - program to develop accessible tools, resources, and guidance for professionsal and industry organziations responseible for planning and designing the exteriour built environment, in order to achieve the reductions and drawsown to me the 1.5c climate target.
China program - programs to support chinese local design and research institutes, international firms and professional organizations with the tools, expertise, training, and zero net carbon standards (localized) to ensure that china has the capability to meet the greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions reduction targets set in the paris agreement.
Carbon positive - program designed to convene stakeholders in the buildings sector to address industry sustainablity and carbon reduction by supporting events and information resources for architecture, engineering, and construction firms focused on low-embodied carbon and carbon positive building materials.
Mass timber tipping point - program to deeply explore diverse firm experiences with mass timber as an alternative low-carbon and carbon- storing material for commercial, institutional, and multi-family buildings in the interest of accelerating uptake. Zero code - a framework of integrated programs to achieve cost-effective energy efficiency measures with on-site and/or off-site renewable energy resulting in zero-net-carbon (znc) buildings. Echo project - program to align and harmonize organizations currently or imminently gathering embodied carbon data from the built environment industry, creating tools and resources, and building awareness about this critical issue. Care tool - program to develop a tool for estimating and comparing the emboed, operating, and avoided carbon impacts and benefits of reusing and upgrading exisiting buildings or replacing them with new construction. Mass timber tipping point - program to deeply explore diverse firm experiences with mass timber as an alternative low-carbon and carbon- storing material for commercial, institutional, and multi-family buildings in the interest of accelerating uptake.