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Discuss Exponential Thinking in Creating Healthy Buildings with Eric Corey Freed, January 11, 8:30-10:15 am
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Discuss Exponential Thinking in Creating Healthy Buildings with Eric Corey Freed
How is the XPRIZE Foundation establishing a “moonshot” for the construction industry - and the planet?
Wednesday, January 11, 8;30-10:15 am
USGBC MA
50 Milk St.
18th Floor, Hemingway Room
Boston, MA, 02109
The way buildings are built today has remained relatively unchanged for nearly two hundred years. The $9 trillion a year global construction industry is responsible for nearly 60% of climate change emissions, a third of landfill waste and a shocking array of negative health effects.
Even the most advanced construction projects in the world continue to use ancient techniques of modular assembly, relying on painstaking human effort to construct dead & ancient materials of wood, steel, and concrete. Construction is driven by standards and codes to ensure economy and safety, but in the process fail to protect people from larger risks.
In 2016, the XPRIZE Foundation set out to establish a “moonshot” for construction by creating the XPRIZE for Healthy Buildings. In this talk, you’ll learn how the team approached this unique opportunity to develop a way to (literally) grow buildings by fusing synthetic biology, genomics, parametric modeling and 3D printing to create a disruption and paradigm shift that could switch us from a PETRO-chemical world, to a BIO-chemical one.
Eric Corey Freed:
Named as one of the Top 10 “Most Influential Green Architects” in the world, Eric is an architect, author, and speaker, as well as a frequent guest on CNN, Fox News, PBS and HGTV. He’s published 11 books, and has dedicated his career to helping people create sustainable and healthy buildings. In addition to being an award-winning architect, he advises manufacturers, developers, and Fortune 500 companies on how to improve the health, energy, and water impacts of their products, portfolio and systems.
Licensed Architect; LEED Fellow, US Green Building Council; Voted “Best Green Architect” by San Francisco Magazine
For more information: http://usgbcma.org/blog/jan-11-discuss-exponential-thinking-creating-healthy-buildings-eric-corey-freed
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