Webinar: Decarbonizing Labs: Strategies for High-Performance and Sustainability

Laboratories are among the most energy-intensive building types in the built environment, presenting unique challenges in the global effort to decarbonize and achieve sustainability goals. This webinar explores the sustainability context for labs, emphasizing why these spaces require specialized strategies to reduce operational energy use and emissions. We will outline a process for getting to zero for labs, grounded in the high-performance building design framework: reduce, optimize, produce/procure.

Participants will gain insights into balancing innovative technologies with proven design strategies to deliver high-performance outcomes without compromising safety or functionality. Through real-world examples from recent lab projects, we will highlight techniques that drive measurable improvements in energy efficiency and carbon reduction. Additionally, the session will examine how metering and sensing can right-size systems, prevent overdesign, and maintain appropriate process capacity—critical steps toward sustainable lab operations.

Learning Objectives

• Identify and understand the elements of the high-performance building design framework: reduce, optimize,…