Speaker: Duygu Erten
Title: Whole Life Carbon, Energy Efficiency, Circularity
Date/Time: 18 Oct 2023, 13:40-14:30
Place: FENS G035 (Physical Only)
Abstract: By 2050, at the latest, all new and existing assets must be net zero GHG emissions across the whole life cycle. All new buildings must be net zero GHG emissions in operation. Widespread energy-efficiency retrofits of existing assets must be well underway. Embodied carbon of new construction must be reduced by at least 40%. Operational energy-related GHG emissions can be reduced by: Efficiency measures and building electrification, Operations and maintenance, Refrigerants: Low-GWP, minimizing volume, and improving management, Renewable energy sources (on and off site) and energy storage, Building-grid integration, and real-time carbon signals Whole-building life-cycle assessment (WBLCA) must be considered in future building codes to reduce embodied and operational GHG emissions related to buildings and their HVAC&R systems.
Building performance standards (BPS) should be considered as a policy tool for existing building decarbonization. The embodied carbon of building materials accounts for approximately 11 percent of global carbon emissions. Circular approaches to producing new materials will help to reduce embodied carbon.
Bio:Associate Prof. Duygu Erten, P.E., AIA completed her undergraduate education at Boğaziçi University, her master's degree and doctorate in Civil and Environmental engineering at Rutgers University in the USA, and graduated from the Executive Program in "Leadership in Sustainability" at Harvard University. Erten, who is a qualified civil engineer (P.E.) in the USA, started her engineering career at Los Angeles AECOM and continued as a project engineer and manager at Lend Lease. In 2007, she returned to Turkey as the "Clinton Foundation" Istanbul City Director and served as the director of the "Clinton Climate Initiative" project as a C40 partner. Erten, whose academic fields of study are sustainability in the construction sector, has served as the assistant director of the Climate Research Center, a lecturer in construction faculties and the head of the IMU Climate Change, Energy and Health Programme. She gave lectures part-time at Koç, Sabancı, Boğaziçi and İTÜ. Erten, who is the author of more than 50 articles, papers, and book chapters in the field of Green Buildings, is a LEED AP, LEED Faculty and WELL Faculty, an EPEA accredited C2C Appraiser in Germany, a BRE accredited BREEAM Fellow with a British Green Building Certificate, and a BREEAM Academy member, and It is an accredited DGNB Academy member in the German green building system. She led the efforts of Boğaziçi and Piri Reis Universities in Turkey to become green campuses. She pioneered the efforts for engineers in Turkey to have competent engineering accreditations, as in America, and was the educator who designed and gave the first Competent Engineering pre-training (FE) at ITU. She is currently a member of the ITU “Built Environment Circularity Research” team.