The 2021 Climate Heritage Network (CHN) Annual Report launches today, Thursday March 10th!
As the Annual Report documents, the world is recognizing the power of arts, culture, and heritage to help societies imagine and achieve low-carbon, climate resilient futures. The CHN platform we have collectively created, aims to help every organization further accelerate this work.
The resource includes MTBA’s contribution to the Building Reuse is Climate Action resource, which promotes historic and existing building reuse as an economical and efficient means towards achieving carbon reduction in the construction industry sector (which accounts for up to half of all global carbon emissions !!!). It features the work of the “Building Reuse is Climate Action” group co-chaired by MTBA’s Mark Thompson Brandt (on pages 6-7, 40-41) and lists all the CHN’s Working Group 3 (WG-3) members, including MTBA’s Emily Guy and Chris Warden.
The resource identifies and quantifies carbon using an analysis method that demonstrates the potential carbon savings from the reuse of similar existing and historic buildings. The case studies include MTBA’s Adaptive Reuse of 144 Wellington in collaboration with NORR Architects and Engineers & John G. Cooke and Associates Structural Engineers, also known as the Sir John A. Macdonald building.
Other case studies included in the resource include examples from CHN WG-3 members, Lori Ferris and Jean Caroon (Goody Clancy), Nathan Lott (PRC-NO), Stephanie Phillips and Shanon Shea Miller (City of San Antonio) , Larry Strain and Carl Elefante (AIA).
The resource is available for viewing here: 2021 Climate Heritage Network Annual Report
