Climate Change Demands Healthier and More Sustainable Buildings
From indoor air quality to extreme heat, buildings face difficult challenges to protect their occupants. Fortifying buildings for health has become a major priority as the building sector is confronted by these evolving vulnerabilities.
A critical yet often overlooked imperative is emerging — the need for buildings that are fortified for sustainability and health.
As global real estate works overtime to do its part to support rapid decarbonization, such as ramping up energy efficiency solutions and other carbon-reduction strategies, another major crisis is looming. Because of an already changing climate — which just so happens to be changing much faster than scientists expected — the world is becoming increasingly more inhospitable. Exhibit A and B this summer have been the dangerous Canadian wildfire smoke sweeping down into the U.S. and record-breaking extreme heat in North America, Europe and Asia.
What does this all mean for buildings, all the places that, first and foremost, need to protect occupants and keep them safe? Are they ready? Are they prepared? Many buildings — of all types, all sizes and in every part of the world — will now face numerous new, unanticipated pressures, sometimes with devastating effects to property, but also to health, and even jeopardizing lives.
On September 19 at 11:30 a.m. ET, join BuildingAction and the International WELL Building Institute for a Climate Week 2023 webcast, Climate Change Demands Healthier and More Sustainable Buildings. With opening remarks by Russ Carnahan, BuildingAction Co-founder and Former U.S. Representative (D-MO), the session will feature a discussion on how leaders from across real estate, both commercial and residential, along with leading organizations in the design, engineering and construction industries, and building owners and operators, can move quickly to help support the well-being of the people inside their buildings, while supporting sustainability goals, especially when confronted by these new (yet predictable) vulnerabilities.
Moderator:
- Jason Hartke, Executive Vice President, External Affairs and Advocacy, IWBI
Speakers:
- Russ Carnahan, BuildingAction Co-founder and Former U.S. Representative (D-MO)
- Adhishesh Sood, Business Development Manager- Global Strategic Partnerships, Sustainable Building Technologies, Honeywell
- Kevin Kampschroer, Chief Sustainability Officer and Director, Office of Federal High-Performance Green Buildings, General Services Administration
View the webcast recording.
Read the recap article.
