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We need the construction industry. Progress in the real world and industries begins through construction and trades. Yet today, construction activities create considerable pollution, accounting for a significant portion of the 42% of global emissions from the built environment.
In partnership with leaders from the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industries, real estate organizations, municipalities, governmental agencies, and other stakeholders, USGBC California has established the Clean Construction platform to function as an ecosystem that brings people together to share knowledge and best practices, and increase collaboration to help create network effects and advance the strategies that reduce pollution from construction activities.
This platform is very adaptable and can support your organization’s objectives in different ways. By working together, we can help transform Clean Construction into a tangible reality and help create healthier, more resilient communities across California for all.
We invite all Stakeholders to Collaborate with Us!
We are an entrepreneurial team looking to create positive change. Stakeholders looking for scaled impact should connect with us. We’re versatile and can work with partners in many capacities. Below are some areas where we are currently mobilized.
- The Clean Construction Pavilion at the California Green Building Conference
- All construction materials that have a lower embodied carbon than existing products.
- We’re engaged with material manufacturers about advancements in manufacturing or supply chain that lowers the carbon footprint.
- We’re engaged with AEC professionals to understand the use case and demonstrative performance of these materials.
- Do you work with electric or zero-emission construction equipment?
- Are you an equipment manufacturer?
- Are you a project manager that will deploy equipment?
- Are you a construction professional that operates equipment?
- Are you a utility professional involved with power infrastructure and solutions?
- We’re working on a standardized guide that outlines the steps necessary to secure the power needed to operate electric construction equipment. This would help project managers understand how to work with their utility, how to navigate temporary power solutions and charging equipment, and essentially be in the best position for a successful deployment of equipment. The guide will be supplemented with on-demand training that will be eligible for CEUs.
- If you would like to be a sponsor of this guide and training, please contact us.
- We are working with local stakeholders to advance material reuse, design for disassembly, and design for deconstruction, with the ultimate goal of stimulating a circular economy for construction materials.
- Do you have a project scheduled for demolition? Partner with a cohort of motivated stakeholders to assess your building’s capacity for deconstruction and disassembly.
- Are you an industry professional who can contribute towards these goals?
- Learn about and pilot innovative building technologies and materials through our Net Zero Accelerator, innovation showcases, design charrettes, or pilot project.
Contact us
Please contact Pars Parikh, for more information.
- The conference will offer stakeholders an opportunity to engage with Clean Construction strategies.
- The expo hall will include dedicated space for low-carbon materials, zero-emission construction equipment including battery energy storage systems, temporary power, and charging solutions, and more technologies and solutions that help reduce pollution from construction activities.
- The venue will also feature a stage committed to only Clean Construction content and will include both short-form and long-form content.
- View the Clean Construction Prospectus and email us to save a spot!
- Leading roundtables, advocacy, and resource development to advance low and ultra-low carbon materials, nature-based solutions, and locally manufactured materials.
- Demonstrate the benefits of utilizing performance-based specifications over prescriptive-based specifications.
- Help accelerate interior design with low-carbon materials.
- Support implementation of Buy Clean CA – EPD-based procurement for carbon steel rebar, flat glass, mineral wool board insulation, and structural steel.
- Database of EPDs from local manufacturers.
- Raise awareness on the use case benefits, showcase the evolution in equipment productivity, and offer a platform for stakeholders to connect and seek out solutions.
- Help navigate challenges around securing the power necessary to deploy electric construction equipment including utilizing temporary power solutions and charging solutions.
- Are you an equipment manufacturer or service provider looking to expand into CA?
- USGBC-CA Electrified Construction Coalition program flyer.
- Provide support and resources for adaptive reuse, conversions, and repositioning.
- C&D Waste – best practices and case studies around zero waste and near zero waste generation.
- Acceleration of circular strategies across the supply chain and throughout design, construction, and end-of-life.
- Design for disassembly and design for deconstruction.
- Do you have a project scheduled for demolition? Partner with a cohort of motivated stakeholders to assess your building’s capacity for disassembly and deconstruction.
- Embodied Carbon Fundamentals
- Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Environmental Product Declarations Development
- Extreme Heat & Wildfire Defense Certifications for Construction Professionals
- Professionals Directory
- Building decarbonization & refrigerant management.
- Prefab, modular construction, and mass timber.
- Commercial water reuse
- Onsite organics recycling
- Net Zero Accelerator companies and solutions.
- Sustainable Concrete: How to Reduce, Quantify, and Specify Carbon (Video Recording) (October 2024)
- Key Takeaways and Video Recording of the Clean Concrete Roundtable (March 2024)
- Zero Emission Equipment: Technicalities, Use Case, and Benefits (Video Recording) (May 2024)
- Electrified Construction Equipment Best Practices Guide (August 2023)
- Commercial Water Reuse White Paper (April 2023)
- Innovating Highway Design for Environmental and Community Benefit Design & Development Report (September 2022)
- Decarbonizing Construction White Paper (August 2022)
Join Our Clean Construction Community!
This is a unique chance to join or sponsor a cohort of thought leaders and professionals that are shaping the construction industry’s future, as it pertains to pollution reduction. Functioning as an open-source ecosystem, your engagement, time, and support, can help create network effects that can accelerate the pollution reduction of construction activities.
- Access clean construction best practices, incentives, and resources to accelerate your progress.
- Showcase your successes and lessons learned through case studies, project tours, roundtables, and events.
- Connect with peers who are driving clean construction forward within their companies and communities.
- Work collaboratively on “moonshot” goals like establishing a Material Reuse Center in Los Angeles.
Contact us
Please contact Pars Parikh, for more information.
Our Coalition Partners
Construction Committee!
Our Construction Committee provides a space for collaboration to advance sustainability in construction for the greater California region through education, leadership, and access to resources.
Attend a Construction Committee meeting!
Present to the Construction Committee!
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Download the Best Practices Guide!
This guide serves as your gateway to building a greener and more sustainable world. Collaborate with us and help influence the development of electrified construction practices today!
Download the Program Flyer!
This is our Electrified Construction Coalition flyer (2023) prior to broadening our scope to Clean Construction. We will update it soon, but sharing here as its content remains central to our mission and program offerings.
