Event presented by Reimagine Buildings Collective
Tuesday, August 25th from 12pm-1:30pm eastern (Virtual)
Chris Magwood joins us for this week's Summer Session, hosted by Michael Ingui, digging into three challenges that shape how we think about sustainable building: how we put a real value on carbon storage, how to think holistically about sustainability instead of treating it as a set of separate boxes to check, and why affordability needs to be approached as a whole system rather than product by product.
90 minutes. Three challenges. Three solutions. Come with questions.
About Chris Magwood
Chris Magwood is working to help create a world where buildings are a leading part of the climate solution instead of a major contributor to climate change and doing so in a way that makes the world more equitable, healthy, beautiful, and efficient. In 2022, Chris joined the Rocky Mountain Institute’s Carbon-Free Buildings team. There he leads efforts on HomebuildersCAN, a unique community of practice for homebuilders working to decarbonize, and the development of RESNET Standard 1550 for the measurement and reporting of embodied carbon for homes. In 2019, he helped to establish Builders for Climate Action, and has been leading development of the BEAM carbon estimator tool for low-rise construction.
At BfCA, he co-authored four major studies on embodied carbon in homebuilding. From 2011-2022, Chris was a director and teacher at The Endeavour Centre, a not-for-profit sustainable building school. Prior to that, he ran a design/build firm specializing in carbon-storing, healthy, energy-efficiency new construction and renovations.
Chris has authored seven books on sustainable building. His latest book, Building Beyond Zero: New Ideas for Carbon-Smart Architecture, is co-authored with Bruce King and published by Island Press.
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