Virtual Tech Hour: The Fraternal Twins of Decarbonization and Climate Resilience

Please Note: This Tech Hour Presentation is Pre-recorded. PDH credits are available.

Born from the same awareness of climate change, building decarbonization and climate-related resilience are often framed within organizations and our own thought processes as two independent exercises – one as risk management, the other as environmental social responsibility. This session explores both the potential synergies and the maladaptive risks associated with balancing the equally important (but occasionally competing) needs of carbon mitigation and climate adaptation during a building design or retrofit process.

Erin McConahey, PE, FASHRAE, has 27 years experience as an HVAC design engineer and sustainability consultant.

She is currently leading the Net Zero Carbon Buildings team at Arup, fulfilling their global commitment to collect Whole Life Carbon Assessment data each year. She is a Professional Engineer in California and Colorado, a - LEED accredited professional BD+C, and ASHRAE accredited High Performance Building Design Professional, an ASHRAE Fellow, and an Arup Fellow (one of 50 recognized for technical excellence within the 17,000+ person firm).

Erin’s specialties include: mechanical engineering sustainability consulting with current focus on building decarbonization expertise in low-energy comfort-cooling designs: natural ventilation, radiant cooling expertise in museum design expertise in multidisciplinary design and delivery processes including collaborative group process and use of BIM (Building Information Modeling) Diversity and Inclusion within engineering

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM - Presentation