Living in a Material World: The Architects’ Role in Responsible Materials Selection

About the live course

How can architects and designers take action in selecting holistically responsible materials? With competing priorities from clients and project teams, as well as a whole world of product and project-level certifications, responsible material selection is a challenging task that must be navigated on a daily basis. The AIA Materials Pledge provides a framework for architects and designers to begin to chart progress in data transparency and optimization across the five impact categories: Human health, social health and equity, ecosystem health, climate health, and circular economy.  

Join AIA Materials Pledge leadership for this webinar where speakers will focus on beginner steps for designers to take in thinking about holistic material health. They will then speak about how the AIA Materials Pledge reporting framework can support firms at any stage of their materials journey. Finally, they will provide an overview of this year’s second annual AIA Materials Pledge By the Numbers (RY24) report, looking at reported materials data from over 100 signatory firms.

• Identify the role of architects in selecting materials that address one or more of the five impact categories: Human health, social health and equity, ecosystem health, climate health, and circular economy.
• Understand the role of the AIA A&D Materials Pledge in providing a community and reporting framework for signatories to track progress in data transparency and optimization.
• Describe high-level data takeaways from this year’s second AIA Materials Pledge By the Numbers report.
• Identify key strategies for better data collection and tracking, as well as improving performance to meet the five goals of the Materials Pledge program.

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