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7:00 am Registration & Networking
7:30 am Chair’s Opening Remarks
Enhancing Efficiency in Carbon Reporting & Accounting
7:40 am Transforming Constraints Into Innovation for Scalable Carbon Tracking
- Avoiding carbon tunnel syndrome by using sustainability data to unlock financial and operational value
- Guiding data discovery by mapping sources, engaging teams, and automating insights
- Leveraging AI and aggregators to automate carbon tracking and improve accuracy
- Creating a regenerative loop by assessing, aligning, and adapting sustainability data
- Transforming employee contributions by embedding sustainability into existing workflows instead of adding more requirements
8:10 am Transforming Constraints Into Innovation for Scalable Carbon Tracking
- Avoiding carbon tunnel syndrome by using sustainability data to unlock financial and operational value
- Guiding data discovery by mapping sources, engaging teams, and automating insights
- Leveraging AI and aggregators to automate carbon tracking and improve accuracy
- Creating a regenerative loop by assessing, aligning, and adapting sustainability data
- Transforming employee contributions by embedding sustainability into existing workflows instead of adding more requirements
8:50 am Panel: Establishing Data Standards to Ensure Your Carbon Accounting Meets Increasing Scrutiny from Clients & Regulators
- Reviewing industry standards to help inform what constitutes ‘quality carbon accounting’ and establish clear boundaries on what is/isn’t included in carbon calculations
- Developing a common language for carbon accounting with shared definitions and methodologies to reduce variability in reporting across departments
- Exploring how standardization can enhance corporate credibility, stakeholder trust, and competitive positioning
10:00 am Morning Refreshments & Networking
Track 1
Tackling Jobsite Sustainability
“Ensuring effective emission reporting & reduction in the field”
Accelerating Low-Carbon Infrastructure
10:40 am Discover – Strategic Approaches to Transitioning Your Jobsite to Electrification While Minimizing Disruptions
- How to dispel skepticism and effectively communicate the greenhouse gas and human health benefits of jobsite electrification
- Current market availability, opportunities, and limitations of allelectric construction equipment
- Future state of fossil fuel free construction equipment: hydrogen power and net-zero energy jobsite offices
- Evaluating the logistics of on-site charging to ensure similar productivity to equivalent fossil fuel equipment models, with one case study of jobsite electrification success and one case study of jobsite electrification failure with associated lessons learned
11:40 am Transforming Transportation & Logistics Options to Maximize Carbon Reduction Efforts
- Identifying key data points for measuring water efficiency across projects and exploring digital tools for real-time water monitoring
- Exploring how different regions are prioritizing water availability and purity, and where the pockets are for action
- Investigating how groundwater, greywater, and other sources can be utilized for non-potable applications
12:00 pm Lunch Break
Waste & Water Reduction
1:00 pm Discover – Commercial Deconstruction as a Means to Lower Embodied Carbon & Waste
- Understanding how deconstruction policy can drive building material reuse and accelerate a circular economy
- Exploring how partnerships between owners, contractors, and designers can facilitate the adoption of salvaged building materials and alternative solutions to reduce embodied carbon
- Examining a process developed to recover, evaluate, track, and successfully reuse structural steel, including material testing
- Identifying the potential environmental, carbon, and economic benefits of utilizing salvaged building materials
1:30 pm Develop – Maximizing Waste Prevention Efforts Through Project Partner & Supplier Collaboration
- Addressing the complexities of waste management: What are the elements that contractors typically don’t account for, but can be costly, in terms of onsite waste?
- Embedding waste management goals into contracts to ensure teams are incentivized to implement innovative solutions: How can you quantify success?
- Exploring how collaboration with suppliers, waste haulers, and local governments can improve recycling and reuse rates
2:00 pm Action – Enhancing Water Conservation to Further Reduce Onsite Environmental Impact
- Identifying key data points for measuring water efficiency across projects and exploring digital tools for real-time water monitoring
- Exploring how different regions are prioritizing water availability and purity, and where the pockets are for action
- Investigating how groundwater, greywater, and other sources can be utilized for non-potable applications
Track 2
Building Corporate Sustainability Strategy
“Shaping business strategies & priorities”
Strengthening Resilience Into Your Program
10:40 am Discover – Navigating Regional Variability in Sustainability Standards, Market Conditions & Implementation Feasibility
- Recognizing that sustainable solutions viable in one region may not be feasible elsewhere due to pricing, supply, client or regulatory barriers
- Assessing variations in regional and market best practice to incorporate in your program’s standardized frameworks
- Ensuring that sustainability initiatives continue evolving where possible, while gradually raising the bar in regions that lag
11:40 am 11.40 Develop – Scaling & Deploying Strategies at Speed Amidst Competing Priorities & Growth Pressures
- Strengthening communication and alignment between sustainability, operations, and leadership teams to ensure prioritization and scale of only the most impactful initiatives
- Learning how to maintain operational consistency when rolling out new initiatives across multiple states
- Identifying internal obstacles that slow down momentum with these initiatives and how to remove them
12:00 pm Lunch Break
Balancing Compliance & Innovation
1:00 pm Discover – Building a Comprehensive Tech Stack for Carbon Reporting: Weighing Up In-House Solutions vs. Outsourcing
- Sifting through the growing number of ESG and carbon tracking startups to identify reliable, scalable solutions
- Structuring a multi-layered system to handle data collection, storage, processing, visualization, and reporting
- Customizing dashboards and reporting interfaces to suppor compliance needs while enabling operational decision-making
1:30 pm Develop – Creating a Robust Compliance Program to Meet Varying Disclosure Requirements
- Understanding the growing demand from clients to comply with CDP, EcoVadis, SBTi, and other reporting frameworks: What does this mean for your data standards?
- Building compliance frameworks with an eye to the future to ensure scalability as requirements grow
- Managing the labor-intensive nature of disclosure processes while maintaining operational efficiency
2:00 pm Action – Leveraging AI to Enhance Reporting, Tracking & Data-Driven Decision-Making
- Identifying how AI can enhance ESG data collection, tracking, and reporting accuracy
- Discussing barriers such as adoption resistance, data quality issues, and trust in AI-generated insights
- Using AI to identify trends, flag anomalies, and improve sustainability performance in active projects
2:20 pm Afternoon Refreshments
Advancing Long-Term Sustainability Commitments
2:50 pm Panel: Accelerating Progress to 2030 Commitments & Resetting to 2050 Targets
- Exploring the hardest last steps in meeting 2030 commitments: What are the strategies being prioritised industry wide to close the gap?
- Gaining insight into how businesses are identifying, adapting, reassessing, and communicating setbacks to 2030 goals with stakeholders
- Understanding what the next phase of sustainability commitments will look like once 2030 milestones are reached