David Arkin, AIA is Principal of northern California-based Arkin Tilt Architects. David is co-Chair of the AIA’s 2030 Commitment Working Group and represents the AIA on the Embodied Carbon Harmonization and Optimization project, a cross-disciplinary coalition towards reducing embodied carbon in the built environment. For the past ten years he was Director of the California Straw Building Association (CASBA), advocating for natural building systems in the building codes, and publishing ‘Straw Bale Building Details, An Illustrated Guide for Design and Construction’. A native of Wisconsin, David studied architecture at the University of Minnesota and UC Berkeley.
Courses
AIA 2030 Commitment By the Numbers (RY23): A Look into Firms’ Progress Towards Net Zero Emissions
Thursday, October 24, 2024 | 3:00-4:00pm ET
What progress has more than 24,000 projects totaling 3.9 billion GSF designed last year made towards net-zero carbon? The AIA 2030 Commitment, a key climate action program, brings together a network of over 1,350 signatory architecture and design firms dedicated to tracking their projects’ energy data to reach carbon neutrality in the built environment. Upon this year’s release of the 2030 By the Numbers (RY23), join us for a conversation on the high-level findings from the report, including where we are succeeding as an industry and where we can still improve based on the reported data. We will discuss data trends on overall energy performance, the incorporation of energy modeling in projects, and the inclusion of renewable energy sources and embodied carbon data.