We are pleased to announce the second annual Embodied Carbon Summit, a full-day workshop exploring the evolving landscape of embodied carbon. This interactive session brings together industry leaders, policy experts, and innovators to discuss cutting-edge strategies for reducing embodied carbon, promoting material reuse, and shaping future building codes.

This workshop will be held before the 2025 Getting to Zero Forum, and is not included with a Full Forum Pass. Registration can be purchased a la carte individually or in addition to your Full Forum Pass.

Facilitators:

Ariel Brenner, New Buildings Institute, Project Manager

Ariel Brenner is a Program Manager at NBI, focusing on codes and policy to advance sustainability, resilience, and equity in the built environment. She previously supported the Biden administration’s sustainability initiatives at the White House Council on Environmental Quality and worked as an urban designer in Los Angeles, shaping planning policies with city departments and residents. Ariel holds a bachelor’s in architecture from UC Berkeley and a master’s in environmental policy from the University of Pennsylvania.

Amie Lewis, Associate Director of Codes & Policy, New Buildings Institute

Amie Lewis is Associate Director in Codes and Policy at New Buildings Institute. Amie weaves together environmental building standards development and implementation with systems thinking, behavioral science, and data analysis. She believes mandatory codes, standards, and policies are crucial to any successful climate action plan, from the local to the global scale. At NBI, she brings her passion and dedication to effective codes & policy implementation to her projects and teams.

Speakers:

Victoria Herrero-Garcia, Embodied Carbon Leader , Mead & Hunt

Victoria Herrero-Garcia is the Embodied Carbon Leader at Mead & Hunt. With over 18 years of experience as a sustainability consultant and a decade of expertise in completing whole building life cycle assessments (WBLCA), she plays a key role in guiding project teams to implement effective embodied carbon reduction strategies that align with their goals. Her project work spans local, state, and federal buildings, as well as educational, aviation, commercial, and industrial facilities. Victoria is the co-founder of the Carbon Leadership Forum (CLF) Rocky Mountain Hub, where she volunteers to organize educational sessions and advocate for the implementation of state and local policies. As an industry expert, she has collaborated on research projects with both the CLF National and the Structural Engineers 2050 Commitment Program (SE 2050). Additionally, she has served as a peer-reviewer for embodied carbon standards, regulations, and protocols.

Elaine Hoffman, Director of Sustainability, Goody Clancy

Elaine Hoffman is a Director of Sustainability at Goody Clancy, a Boston-based architecture firm focused on higher education. Her multi-headed role involves project-based design roles working on envelope design and carbon impact as well as leading firmwide efforts across all project teams to advance sustainability goals and strengthen decision-making practices. Her background in environmental studies allows her to help project teams find interconnectivity between decarbonization, life cycle impacts, human health, and climate resilience.

John King, Fellow, Energy Solutions

John D. H. King is a Fellow at Energy Solutions. ACaltech educated, patented inventor, his expertise straddles both engineering and business. A 20-year veteran of cleantech, Mr. King co-wrote the first market analysis (Greentech Media, 2008) correctly predicting the impact the California Solar Initiative (CSI) program would have on the solar market, transforming both the ownership structure of deployed projects and overall market size. At Energy Solutions, Mr. King is part of the Embodied Carbon team which seeks to drive Market Transformation through a holistic approach covering codes and standards as well as market-based programs and policy.

Taylor Linnell, Founder, BuiltCold

Taylor Linnell is the CEO and co-founder of BuiltCold, a compliance tool purpose-built to help government agencies and construction teams navigate Buy Clean programs. He has spent two decades building enterprise-grade software and led the development of solutions now used to meet embodied carbon requirements at both state and federal levels. Taylor bridges the gap between AEC workflows and government goals—making low-carbon programs faster, clearer, and easier to implement.