COTE Presents: 2022 Code Breaker – Embodied Carbon & CALGreen

AIA Long Beach / South Bay & Southern California Edison, a Collaborative Partnership

1.0 LU/HSW/ZNCD

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Registration currently available only to AIA LBSB chapter members, Allied members, and annual sponsors (use your AIA LBSB ID# as your promo code to reveal ticket)

General Admission opens May 1

Presented on Zoom

Description:

July 2024 brings new CALGreen requirements for commercial buildings over 100,000 square feet and school buildings over 50,000 square feet to show embodied carbon savings.  This short one-hour session will cover these new requirements, as well as explain the concepts, why embodied carbon matters, how to measure and reduce embodied carbon, and how to show compliance with the new CALGreen requirements via Prescriptive and Performance pathways. 

Learning objectives:

• Differentiate between embodied carbon and operational carbon.
• Describe the importance of managing embodied carbon in achieving California’s climate goals.
• Explain how to measure and reduce embodied carbon and support design decisions with the most significant impact.  
• Identify CALGreen requirements on embodied carbon that will take effect July 1, 2024.

Speaker:

Gina Rodda is currently the Owner of Gabel Energy out of Castro Valley, California, and has been in the energy modeling field since 1991. She is an energy analyst performing a wide range of responsibilities in both residential and nonresidential construction pertaining to compliance standards and energy modeling within the United States, while specializing in California Building Code. California local ordinances (or Reach codes) supporting electrification and electric preferred for multifamily, hotel/motel and nonresidential buildings dictates much of the work Gabel Energy provides in Northern California in which Gabel Energy has been an active leader in heat pump mechanical equipment design choices as supported by the Energy Code and compliance software modeling.

Gina has worked with Energy Code Ace as a subject matter expert developing and supporting trainings, resources and tools on the Residential and Nonresidential Title 24 Building Energy Efficiency Standards for building department staff, energy consultants, engineers, contractors and architects.

Gina also works as a respected subject matter expert informing the statewide code development process since the 2013 Building Code cycle.

Gina’s Certifications:

• Residential and Nonresidential Certified Energy Analyst (CEA) via CABEC
• LEED Accredited Professional (AP) via USGBC
• Education: Bachelor of Arts from University of the Pacific (UOP) graduated 1989