Introduction:
Scientia Professor Deo Prasad will introduce the climate emergency of delivering net zero carbon buildings and the experience of developing Australia’s first national guide that provides reliable and science-based benchmarks, targets and pathways towards net zero operational and embodied carbon for new and existing buildings across the nation. The talk will present how the performance targets can provide a strong foundation to reducing carbon emissions in the built environment sector through a range of regulatory and non-regulatory measures (e.g. legislation, assessment frameworks, design competitions and awards, contract documents, etc.). As such, the talk will also show advanced, researched knowledge, emerging technologies and practical applications enabling the race to a net zero carbon built environment.
Lecturer:
Scientia Professor Deo Prasad AO FTSE has long-standing expertise in decarbonisation and sustainability. He led two key centres in this area – SOLARCH Group and then the CRC for Low Carbon Living as the CEO (~$30m). The CRC for Low Carbon Living has been the largest investment in built environment focussed research in Australia. Following this, he co-led the bid for the National Environmental Science Program’s ‘Sustainable Communities and Waste Hub’ now established at UNSW. This year he has co-led two successful bids – the NSW Decarbonisation Innovation Hub (~$30m) and the Australian Trailblazer for Recycling and Clean Energy (ATRaCE) (~$230m) – with both delivering massive decarbonisation while creating economic and capacity build outcomes.
Deo has supervised more than 100 masters students and more than 50 PhD completion – his students’ work places have varied from the ‘White House’ energy initiative in USA to the Energy Directorate in the European Union to many professors and other professionals in around 25 countries. Deo has published in excess of 300 key publications and is a regular keynote invited speaker at conferences globally.
Host: Prof. Baojie HE
Date:
18th November, 2022 9:00
Event Location:
Tencent Webinar 884 127 657
Tencent Livestream Channel X-scapeLab
