Principal and Building Sustainability Practice Leader | Thornton Tomasetti
Gunnar Hubbard is a recognized leader in the green building industry in the U.S., Asia, Europe and the Middle East. He has more than two decades of experience as a licensed architect, consultant, educator and sustainability advocate. In his role as Thornton Tomasetti's Sustainability practice leader, he oversees green building experts in our New York City, London, San Francisco, Boston and Portland offices, who have performed more than 400 LEED and BREEAM certifications. Gunnar specializes in creating high-performance, low-energy, healthy buildings. He focuses on advancing the firm’s building analytics capabilities and expertise in the Passive House, Living Building Challenge and WELL certification systems. Gunnar was inducted into the U.S. Green Building Council as a LEED Fellow in 2012 and as an American Institute of Architects Fellow in 2015.
Courses
Embodied Carbon 101: Making the Case
Addressing embodied carbon in one’s practice requires strategy, communication, and collaboration. This course addresses how AEC practitioners can speak with clients and collaborators about embodied carbon to demonstrate the value of reducing embodied carbon and to provide pathways to reduce its impacts in projects and the environment. Learners will hear from sustainability professionals whose practices represent traditional architectural firms, large engineering and consulting firms, and small design/build practices who share approaches to reducing embodied carbon in cooperation with clients, including: managing client choices by selecting and presenting low embodied carbon materials and designs; marketing and external communications; making the economic case for use of low embodied carbon materials and designs; drawing parallels between embodied carbon and materials and occupant health; and developing mutual goals and values with clients and project teams from the early stages of a project.
Course expires 11/14/2026