ACAN Carbon Clinics: Conducting LCAs with Confidence

Date: Tuesday, 21st January 2025   Time: 18:30-20:00   Location: Online

The first of a 2025 series of Carbon Clinincs – a new knowledge-sharing campaign run by ACAN!’s Embodied Carbon Group.

This series of events is aimed at bringing together industry experts to share insights and advice on the challenges and opportunities of adopting Whole Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) in the built environment. The first session, titled “Conducting LCAs with Confidence – 3 Journeys”, will feature a panel of three experienced practitioners exploring the diverse pathways they have taken to build their LCA expertise.

Thomas Hesslenberg – Senior Engineer, Elliott Wood

Tom is a Chartered Structural Engineer & Sustainability consultant at Elliott Wood, contributing to their mission to ‘engineer a better society’. He has played a key role in developing the Structural Carbon Tool with the IStructE and is passionate about maximising building reuse to create thoughtful, well-designed, and sustainable structures.

Louisa Bowles – Partner and Head of Sustainability at Hawkins\Brown

Louisa manages the Environmental Intelligence team, striving for a low carbon and socially aware built environment. She is a member of many cross-disciplinary industry groups campaigning, writing guidance and training for improved performance standards and sustainable outcomes including RIBA, RICS, UKGBC, LETI, NLA, CIBSE. She was co-author for the RICS WLCA Standard 2023, is a taskforce member for the UK NZCBS and is a Mayor’s Design Advocate, working with the GLA.

Mirko Farnetani – Associate & Firmwide Embodied Carbon Leader at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)

Using his eighteen years of experience in the construction industry as a sustainability specialist and fully-qualified architect, Mirko oversees the performance of all of the firm’s projects by integrating carbon abatement and regenerative solution strategies into SOM’s design approach.

In July 2023, Mirko was appointed by the Westminster City Council (London, UK) as one expert member of the Design Review Panel. He is part of the LETI Steering Group and was also the lead author of the 2020 LETI publication, Embodied Carbon Primer as well as Climate Emergency Design Guide, Chapter 2 – Embodied Carbon. He is a guest lecturer at the University of Bath in Life Cycle Assessment, Embodied Carbon plus Responsible Sourcing; at the Atlantic Technological University in Circular Economy; at the Royal College of Art in Material Supply Chains (Circular Economy).

 

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