Last month at the AIA 2025 Conference on Architecture in Boston, I co-presented a session titled Preservation, Adaptive Reuse, Design for Deconstruction for the Carbon Win! with Nakita Reed from Quinn Evans.
At the end of our session, we displayed a QR code that linked to several related resources... in this post, I wanted to also share those resources!
Here are the resources we shared:
Preservation, Adaptive Reuse, Design for Deconstruction for the Carbon Win!
AIA25 Boston Presntation
Speaker(s)
- Daniel Stine, AIA, Lake Flato Architects, Director of Design Technology
- Nakita Reed, AIA, CPHC, LEED AP BD+C, NOMA, Quinn Evans, Senior Associate
Preservation, Adaptive Reuse, Design for Deconstruction for the Carbon Win!
Resources
- Dan’s Blog: BIM Chapters
- Nakita’s podcast: Tangible Remnants
ADVOCACY
- AIA's Public Policies & Position Statements: Environmental Responsibility statement updated in 2024; COTE blog about this
- AIA Committee on the Environment Chapter Guide (includes advocacy information)
BUILDING REUSE
- AIA Guide to Building Reuse for Climate Action
- AIA-CLF Embodied Carbon Toolkit
- AIA CA: Reuse and Retrofit Existing Buildings (Larry Strain)
- Existing Research — Zero Net Carbon Collaboration for Existing and Historic Buildings
TOOLS
- Care Tool: CARE Tool | Carbon Avoided: Retrofit Estimator
- C.Scale: C.Scale | Company
CLIMATE ACTION / CLIMATE JUSTICE
- AIA Climate Action Climate Justice webpage
- AIA Climate Action Climate Justice taxonomy
- AIA CACJ presentation slides from AIA National 2025
- Justice in the Built Environment (guide, summary), part of AIA Guides for Equitable Practice
- AIA CA What You Can Do Right Now: Climate Justice
- NAACP Toolkit: Guidelines for Equitable Community Involvement in Building & Development Projects and Policies
RESILIENCE & ADAPTATION
Also, here is a link to a recap I wrote on the conference:
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