Record on the Road Boston | Sustainability in Practice

This special annual event is organized by Architectural Record in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The third conference in the series offers a chance for architects, allied design professionals, and students to network in a casual setting while learning about cutting-edge research into recycling building materials and circularity, innovative retrofit projects, urban renewal, carbon impacts of landscapes, and achieving net-zero carbon in buildings.

The day-long event is complimentary to students and qualified members of the architectural design community and offers multiple networking opportunities as well as a cocktail reception following the official program.

Agenda

9:30 AM – Registration Check-In, Coffee & Exhibits

9:55 – 10:00 AM – Welcome & Opening Remarks
Alex Bachrach, Publisher, Architectural Record

10:00 – 11:00 AM – Tech-Driven Sustainability: Empowering Architects to Design for a Resilient Future
Ellis Herman, Principal Product Manager, Autodesk
Giuseppe Ardito, Senior Product Owner, Autodesk

11:00 – 11:30 AM – Permasteelisa: Pioneering Low Carbon Facades - Permasteelisa Group Path to Zero
Andrea Zani, Innovation Manager & Sustainability Lead, Permasteelisa
Anna Foden, Head of Sustainability, Permasteelisa

11:30 AM – 12:00 PM – Lunch Break

12:00 – 1:00 PM – Lunch and Learn: Embodied Carbon and the Envelope
Andy McIntyre, Regional Sales Manager, Kingspan

1:00 – 1:20 PM – Networking Break

1:20 – 1:30 PM – Afternoon Welcome
Josephine Minutillo, Editor in Chief, Architectural Record
Nicholas de Monchaux, Professor and Head of Architecture, MIT

1:30 – 2:00 PM – The Rebirth of Piraeus Tower
Ilias Papageorgiou, Founder, PILA

2:00 – 2:45 PM – Designing for Circularity
John Ochsendorf, Professor, MIT
Juliana Berglund-Brown, PhD Researcher, MIT

2:45 – 3:00 PM – Sustainability Myths and Realities of Structural Steel
Brian Raff, Vice President, American Institute of Steel Construction

3:00 – 3:25 PM – Networking Break

3:25 – 4:25 PM – The Nature of Cities: Ecology, Culture, and Carbon
Moderator: Joann Gonchar, FAIA, Deputy Editor, Architectural Record
Anne Whiston Spirn, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning, MIT
Chris Hardy, Senior Associate, Sasaki

4:25 – 5:10 PM – Crafting Breathing Architecture
Merritt Bucholz and Karen McEvoy, Founding Directors, Bucholz McEvoy Architects

5:10 – 6:00 PM – Reception

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