Embodied Carbon Masterclass

10 Dec 2025
Event Guide

Agenda

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12.30pm   Welcome and setting the scene

Presenter: Katherine Featherstone, Senior Manager – Products & Materials, Green Building Council of Australia

12.35pm   How to: a practical guide to measuring embodied carbon

Hear an in-depth explanation of how to measure and benchmark your embodied carbon. Find out what data you’ll need, how to make accurate calculations and how to implement your findings.

  • What data is needed and where to get it?
  • How to compare embodied carbon across reports, materials, and projects
  • Update on ASBEC’s work

Speaker: Nicole Sullivan, Head of Impact and Strategy (Australia), thinkstep-anz

1.25pm    Measurement Matters: Exploring the recently released emission factors library

Measuring your embodied carbon is critical in understanding and tackling your main sources of emissions

  • Hear about the latest approaches in measuring emissions
  • Introduction to NABERS’ recently released emissions factors library.
  • The benefits of verifying your emissions data

Presenter: Katie Eyles, Sector Lead, NABERS

1.50pm   BREAK

2.00pm Specifying low-carbon materials and products

  • Introducing the GBCA’s product directory
  • How to navigate the directory

Katherine Featherstone, Senior Manager – Products & Materials, Green Building Council of Australia

2.15pm   PANEL: Innovations in low carbon materials

This session will examine the role materials and specifications play in addressing embodied carbon. The panel will cover areas including LCAs and EPDs, looking at how materials can be assessed and specified at the project level.

Panelists:

  • Alexander Barnstone, Project Officer, Climate-KIC Australia (Moderator)
  • Hannah Jones, Sustainability Lead, TTW
  • David Law, Integrated Sustainability Practice Leader, Aurecon
  • David Bell, Manager Sustainability & Insight, Infrabuild Steel

2.45pm   Discussion Groups: Materials

In small, facilitated discussion groups, discuss:

  • What experience do you have of using/producing/specifying low embodied carbon materials?
  • If you haven’t used them, why not?
  • What would help you make this happen?

2.55pm     Feedback from discussion groups

3.05pm     BREAK

3.15pm     Case Study: Young Husband adaptive reuse project

See how these learnings come together with a leading Australian example of embodied carbon in practice.

Presenter: Filomena Beshara, Sustainability Manager, Built 

3.40pm     Case study from Lendlease, speaker TBC

4.05pm     Case study TBC

4.30pm     Session wrap up and close