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Paper and presentation at ACSA/AIA conference

Date: October 19 – 21, 2023
Location: Amherst, MA, U.S

2023 ACSA/AIA Intersections Research Conference: MATERIAL ECONOMIES

The conference was attended by Michael Jemtrud, Peter Osborne and Sarrah Kayed. 
They presented a paper entitled “Deep 'climate' retrofit: Assessing life-cycle thinking of emission calculators in construction.”

The paper reviewed existing Life-cycle analysis (LCA) tools and discussed how they might be applied to evaluate and compare DERs. The paper was authored by Peter Osborne, Sarrah Kayed, JiaLin Yue, Frédéric Verrier-Paquette, Daniel Chung, and Michael Jemtrud.

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