Course 2 - Environmental Impacs: Making a Difference

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Looking for a few more FREE HSW credits before the end of the year while learning about building materials?  This week we welcome Hannah Roth as our guest moderator for Course 2 of the AIA Materials Certificate Program – Environmental Impacts: Making a Difference.  

Hannah joined the USGBC Missouri Gateway board in 2018, serving as chair in 2021 as well as on the Strategic Planning Task Force from 2019 – 2021. As an active member of the Missouri Gateway Chapter of the USGBC’s Education Committee, Hannah has created several programs on building materials including an in-depth session for practicing architects, designers and manufacturers discussing actual criteria used in material selections for building projects and a full-day USGBC Continuing Education Program on Building Materials and how LEED v4 will evaluate them. She also helped organize a lunch program for CSI, AIA and USGBC members on Water. Following on the successful reception of this program, she led the planning committee for a full-day session that discussed Water as a national security issue, with a focus on the Mississippi River Basin.
In April 2021, Hannah published the book, Green Building Materials Manual, in collaboration with two colleagues. From 2010 – 2020, Hannah was a Lecturer in both the architecture and the environmental studies programs at Washington University in St. Louis, with a deep focus on building materials and the investigation of their environmental impact. From 2010-2012, she participated in a research grant studying Materials Sustainability Standards (MSS). As a member of the interdisciplinary research team composed of faculty and students from the Sam Fox School of Design and the School of Law at Washington University in St. Louis she investigated MSS and the eco-labels that are used to certify compliance with them. As a former Vice President of Marketing for a national construction company, Hannah actively worked on construction management teams for several decades. She has in-depth knowledge of the design process, decision making process, contracting and construction processes for large complex buildings such as hospitals and digital fabrication facilities.

Often material impact is evaluated while a product is serving a useful purpose in a building, but that only accounts for a portion of the product’s complete life cycle. Course 2 unpacks the entire product life cycle along with the unique environmental impacts at each phase. You’ll learn best practices for improving the environmental performance of materials through a variety of strategies, including designing for deconstruction at the end-of-life.

About the Materials Certificate Program:

Material selection is a core service provided by architects, but that process is far from simple. The Materials Certificate Program untangles the complexities of that process in five essential courses. The key? Materials transparency. When you know everything you can about the materials you use, you’re able to make the best product decisions for projects, people, and the environment. The courses cover different types of impacts, and best practices for reducing these impacts, from industry-best instructors. Each course will be followed by a Q&A session moderated by local and national experts.

Each course is worth (1) LU/HSW credit.  Take all five courses and earn a certificate!  All courses are free of charge, courtesy of our series sponsor, CaraGreen - Home - CaraGreen.