Beyond Efficiency: Tracking and Rating Carbon in Healthcare Design

COURSE OVERVIEW

This presentation explores the evolving role of carbon tracking in healthcare facility design, emphasizing the importance of addressing both operational and embodied carbon. It defines embodied carbon and its contribution to a building’s total carbon footprint, while critically evaluating current rating systems such as ENERGY STARE, ASHRAE 90.1, LEED, and Green Globes. The sesson highlights the limitations of existing methodologies and introduces carbon-smart design decisions. Special attention is given to the healthcare sector’s unique challenges and opportunities in reducing whole life carbon. The course empowers design professionals to lead sustainability efforts through informed material choices, system selection, and collaborative planning.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

1. Define embodied carbon and explain its role in the overall carbon footprint of buildings.
2. Evaluate current carbon tracking methodologies, including rating systems, and identify their limitations.
3. Identify key industry initiatives and strategies aimed at improving carbon benchmarking and transparency.
4. Demonstrate how interdisciplinary collaboration during the design process can reduce whole life carbon in building projects.

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