CPD Training - Skills Upgrading Series for Green Building Practitioners - (7) Life Cycle Assessment, Ecosystem Management & Climate Change Adaptation
CPD Training | 15 Apr 2023
CPD Training - Skills Upgrading Series for Green Building Practitioners - (7) Life Cycle Assessment, Ecosystem Management & Climate Change Adaptation
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Event:
CPD Training - Skills Upgrading Series for Green Building Practitioners - (7) Life Cycle Assessment, Ecosystem Management & Climate Change Adaptation
Date:
15 & 22 April 2023 (Saturdays)
Time:
9:00am - 12:30pm (Registration starts at 8:45am)
Training Format:
Webinar
CPD Entitlement:
6 CPD hours in total
Language:
Talk by Dr Shauhrat S. CHOPRA – English; Talk by Ir Emily WONG on BEAM Plus – Cantonese
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3994-8890
Organised by Hong Kong Green Building Council (HKGBC) and co-organised by BEAM Society Limited (BSL), Skills Upgrading Series for Green Building Practitioners - (7) Life Cycle Assessment, Ecosystem Management & Climate Change Adaptation is designed for persons who have not received formal and structured training on life cycle assessment. The course details are as follows.
Date: 15 Apr & 22 Apr 2023 (Saturdays)
Time: 9:00am - 12:30pm (Registration starts at 8:45am)
Training Format: Zoom
Language: English for main parts; Cantonese for the 40-min BEAM Plus session at the end of Day 2
6 CPD hours for BEAM Pro / BEAM Affiliate
6 CPD hours for BEAM Pro / BEAM Affiliate
Fee:
BEAM Pro / BEAM Affiliate / BSL Members |
HK$430 |
HKGBC Members | HK$430 |
BSL / HKGBC Non-Members | HK$650 |
Online Registration:
BEAM Pro / BEAM Affiliate |
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BSL Members who are NOT BEAM Pro / BEAM Affiliate | Register Here |
HKGBC Members |
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BSL / HKGBC Non-Members |
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The two half-day lectures totalling 6 hours will cover the following topics:
- Life cycle assessment (LCA) studies – what and why
- LCA terminology and its classification
- Standards such as ISO 14040 and ISO 14044
- Relevant software such as SimaPro, GaBi and CIC CAT
- Phases vs Stages, System Boundaries, from Cradle to X
- Functional units, Midpoint, Endpoint and Single-issue indicators
- Attributional vs Consequential LCA
- Life cycle modelling, inventory analysis
- Calculation of Life Cycle Inventory (LCI), LCI databases, data gaps
- Process LCA, Economic Input-Output (EIO) LCA, Hybrid LCA
- Ecosystem services, consequences of changes
- Ecosystem services, consequences of changes
- LCA to quantify ecosystem services degradation
- Climate change: mitigation vs adaptation
- Nature-based solutions e.g. sponge cities
- Case studies related to the above
- BEAM Plus credits related to the above
- Climate change: mitigation vs adaptation
- Nature-based solutions e.g. sponge cities
- Case studies related to the above
- BEAM Plus credits related to the above
Trainers:
Dr Shauhrat S. CHOPRA
School of Energy and Environment
City University of Hong Kong
Ir Emily WONG
Manager - Project Assessment
BEAM Society Limited
For enquiries, please contact Ms Chloe SHIU at 3994-8890 or email [email protected].