Tradeoffs between Embodied and Operational Carbon in Building Envelope Design
Designing buildings to operate on less energy and carbon is essential to net zero goals, but some design choices—particularly in facades—can increase a building’s upfront embodied carbon. This session explores the design decisions and tradeoffs real estate professionals should know to create buildings that are low carbon from construction to end of life, based on research from ULI Greenprint, architecture firm KPF, and the University of Washington’s Integrated Design Lab.
Teresa Moroseos
Teresa Moroseos is a researcher at the Integrated Design Lab (IDL) in the University of Washington's (UW) College of Built Environments and a Teaching Associate in the Department of Architecture. She is also a licensed architect in the state of Washington. Her research focuses on optimizing energy use, daylighting, indoor air quality, and the operational lifecycle impacts of buildings. In her role at the UW IDL, she also works as a consultant on design projects throughout the United States and provides technical expertise to improve daylighting and energy performance for retrofits and new construction.
