Five Ways to Integrate Sustainable Materials in Your Design

Credit type: 1 AIA LU.

Sustainable material selection is a complex balance of achieving design requirements, minimizing environmental impact, and maximizing product performance. Project stakeholders are more engaged and invested in pursuing various sustainability goals, and it is essential the details are not missed at any stage in the process.

To help your firm put sustainability into practice, join us in this session where you’ll hear from an experienced specification writer five tips to specify sustainable materials for your next project.

Learning Objective

• Discover how to research and select materials that are non-toxic, minimize waste and protect the natural environment.
• Understand how a rating checklist can help keep the team on track to meet sustainability goals.
• Learn best practices on educating and advising stakeholders on sustainability throughout a building project.
• Learn techniques to help you specify sustainable materials for your next construction project.

Camp B Boyd

Sustainability Lead

Deltek

Camp B Boyd

Camp Boyd (AAIA, LEED AP BD+C, ID+C, WELL AP, Fitwel Amb., Parksmart Adv.) is the Sustainability Lead at Deltek. She is focused on updating and expanding the sustainability content within AIA MasterSpec to make rating system requirements more accessible to project teams. With over a decade of industry experience and hundreds of green building projects completed, Camp is dedicated to creating healthy indoor environments while conserving resources and protecting the planet.