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Dates: October 7-8, 2024
St. Andrews, New Brunswick
Registration is open until September 20, 2024
SCHEDULE OVERVIEW
RAIC 2024 Congress on Architecture
October 7, 2024 – 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
The Algonquin Resort
The national housing crisis and climate crisis are inextricably connected and pose one of Canada's greatest social and economic challenges. The Canadian government has declared a housing crisis due to soaring housing costs leading to unprecedented affordability challenges, increasing rates of inadequate housing, and a growing number of unhoused people. At the same time, climate change in Canada is leading to more extreme weather events with billions of dollars in damages each year, impairing prosperity and disproportionately impacting vulnerable and marginalized populations. This event will explore the intersection of housing, affordability, and climate change and examine how Canada can move toward holistic solutions to this interconnected crisis.
| 7:00 – 8:30 | Breakfast |
| 8:30 – 8:40 | Welcome to the Land |
| 8:40 – 8:45 | Welcome from the RAIC |
| 8:45 - 9:00 | Introduction and Opening Remarks |
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9:00 - 10:15 |
Panel 1 - (Re) Framing the Problem: Understanding Housing, Affordability, and Climate Change Speakers |
| 10:15 – 10:30 | Break |
| 10:30 – 11:45 | Panel 2 – Understanding about the Problem from Different Perspectives Speakers |
| 11:45 – 12:10 | Roundtable Recap |
| 12:10 – 1:10 | Lunch |
| 1:10 – 1:30 | Table Talk: Problem Statements |
| 1:30 – 2:15 | Inspiring Examples of Ways to Move Forward Speakers |
| 2:15 – 2:30 | Break |
| 2:30 – 4:30 | Table Talk: Generating a Broad Range of Possibilities for Holistic Solutions |
| 4:30 - 4:50 | Key Takeaways |
| 4:50 - 5:00 | Closing Remarks and What’s Next |
This session will be eligible for 6 continuing education hours.
RAIC Congress - World Architecture Day Reception and Dinner
October 7, 2024, 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
The Algonquin Resort
Delegates of both October 7 and October 8 events are invited to join this celebratory reception and dinner on World Architecture Day. Includes the King Charles III Coronation Medal ceremony.
RAIC Congress Education Day – Life Cycle Assessment Workshop*
October 8, 2024 7:45 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
The Algonquin Resort
Assessing embodied carbon impacts throughout a building’s life cycle is a necessary step in a shift towards regenerative and lower carbon design. The Canadian built environment is the third-highest source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and there is an urgent and critical need to accelerate the knowledge, skills and competencies of professionals who design Canada’s buildings.
To address this need, the RAIC is partnering with the National Research Council Canada (NRC) in a one-year rapid-scaling project to train members of the Canadian architectural community through high quality case study-based Whole Building Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) curriculum.
Embodied carbon, defined as the emissions associated with the extraction, manufacturing, transport, installation, replacement, and end-of-life scenario of products and materials, constitutes a significant proportion of a building’s whole life carbon emissions.
Following a theory-based lecture on LCA, embodied carbon, and related methodologies, participants will engage in a hands-on workshop, learning the basics of how to perform an assessment in small group learning groups.
Workshop Outline
| 7:45 – 8:45 | Breakfast |
| 8:45 – 9:00 | Welcome to the Land |
| 9:00 – 9:10 | Welcome and Land Acknowledgement |
| 9:10 - 9:20 | Introduction |
| 9:20 - 10:00 | Primer: Less is Less |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Life Cycle Assessment 101 |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Break |
| 10:45 – 11:45 | Exercise 1 - How to Read an EPD |
| 11:45 – 12:15 | Local Case Study |
| 12:15 – 1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00 – 1:30 | Introduction to LCA Tools & Methods I |
| 1:30 – 2:30 | Exercise 2 - Structural Bay |
| 2:30 – 2:45 | Break |
| 2:45 - 3:15 | Introduction to LCA Tools & Methods II |
| 3:15 - 4:30 | Exercise 3 - Facade Assembly |
| 4:30 - 5:00 | Summary and Key Take-Aways |
| 5:15 - 5:30 | Closing Reflections for Congress |
This workshop is designed for architectural professionals (licensed architects, interns, technologists, students, etc.) who want to learn about Life Cycle Assessment and how to reduce embodied carbon in real-life projects. Engineers, landscape architects and others working in this field are welcome to participate.
Participants will leave the session with knowledge of definitions, methods, targets and standards as well as having the opportunity to practice with LCA software to implement into practice.
This training program has been developed in collaboration with key subject-matter experts, an advisory group and is part of a broader project to train and upskill the architectural community in Whole Building Life Cycle Assessment knowledge.
This workshop will be eligible for 6 continuing education hours.
This workshop has been approved by AIBC for 6 CORE LUs.
All participants will receive a certificate of completion at the conclusion of the workshop listing 6 hours of structured learning. If you are not an AIBC member, you can use this certificate to self-report your hours to your association.
RAIC Congress - Networking Reception
October 8, 2024, 7:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
The Algonquin Resort
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