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Deep Dive

Climate Action

FRI-DD-01: Decarbonization in Practice: Tools, Materials, and Industry Collaboration

Friday, October 10, 2025
8:30 AM – 11:00 AM CT
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2.50 PDH, LA CES/HSW
Ticket Price: $25 per person
Panelists will present the background and best practices associated with decarbonization. The overview presentations will include recent lessons and challenges encountered in practice and an orientation to key resources. Break-out focus groups will dive into detail on each topic: design process, materials specification, and collaborating with industry partners.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Gain a general understanding of the key concepts of embodied and operational carbon emissions, life-cycle analysis, and natural carbon sequestration.
  • Learn how to use the new ASLA decarbonizing guides for design process, product evaluation, and specification writing best practices.
  • Gain a broad sense of where design strategies and tools can make the biggest impacts in the decarbonization of built landscapes and review examples of successes and failures.
  • Explore the latest lessons in decarbonization and the state of the industry in terms of what is known, what is speculative, and where primary research is needed.