Join us this month to hear from 2 special guest speakers on the topic of Sustainable Infrastructure!
Low carbon concrete has been used in the Bay Area for over a decade. Central Concrete, a subsidiary of Vulcan Materials, was the first company in North America to produce environmental product declarations (EPDs) for a building material. This leadership provides engineers with the opportunity to utilize concrete for embodied carbon reduction of construction projects. Alana’s presentation will include a brief overview of lower concrete embodied carbon strategies and implementation, measurement of concrete carbon, and future potential solutions.
Sustainable infrastructure and pathways to reduce carbon emissions in concrete is one of the key ingredients to decarbonizing the construction industry. Blue Planet is an emerging technology in the local market with a new product to reduce the footprint of embodied carbon in concrete, one of the largest construction products used in the word, comprising 8% of global CO2 emissions. Blue Planet will be presenting their road to scale to make this product available for the construction industry.
Blue Planet Systems, founded in 2012, has conceived and successfully developed an entirely “novel approach to CO2 management” at the gigatonne scale by converting captured C02 into limestone construction aggregate where it is permanently sequestered and place into concrete. Blue planet believes it has developed the only truly scalable method for capturing and permanently utilizing billions of tonnes of CO2. David Gottried will be presenting, and is known as the father of global green building movement, founding the U.S. Green Building Council and World Green Building Councils, now in over 76 countries.
Alana Guzzetta, PE
National Research Lab Manager
Vulcan Materials Company
Alana Guzzetta is the manager of Vulcan Materials Company’s National Research Laboratory. Located in San Jose, CA, this lab is the company’s research resource for testing and vetting new materials for use in concrete ready-mix. Alana has a Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering from San Jose State and has worked in the research lab since 2011. Her role also involves collaboration with architects, engineers, and sustainability consultants to develop concrete specifications that are performance-based and incorporate achievable embodied carbon goals.
David Gottfried
Chief Global Impact Officer
Blue Planet
David Gottfried is known as a father of the global green building movement, founding the U.S. Green Building Council and World Green Building Councils, now in over 76 countries – starting a global sustainable building movement with hundreds of thousands of projects in 181 countries,
and hundreds of thousands of accredited professionals.
Gottfried serves as Chief Global Impact Officer for Blue Planet Systems. The firm makes Synthetic Limestone [CaCO3] aggregate by a circular process including directly sequestering and then mineralizing CO2 from power plants and other CO2 sources. The potential is for gigatonnes of CO2 permanently stored annually into carbon negative concrete. Gottfried is helping Blue Planet accelerate commercialization of the company’s carbon negative concrete for the built environment.
Previously, Gottfried was CEO of Reset360, Regenerative Ventures and its RegenNetwork for 25 years. Before that he served as a real estate developer and contractor, including Senior Vice President of Thomas Properties Group and Managing Director of its Green Building Fund. He is a recipient of the Global Green Building Entrepreneurship Award, USGBC’s Leadership Award, and the USGBC Northern California Chapter’s Super Hero Award. He was inducted into the
Green Industry Hall of Fame and named to the Purpose Economy 100.
Gottfried hosts the Regen360 iTunes podcast. His former residence was the highest rated LEED Platinum home in the world. Gottfried has a degree in Engineering and Resource Management from Stanford University, where he was a regular lecturer.
Gottfried has received numerous leadership awards, including the WorldGBC Global Green Building Entrepreneurship Award. His Explosion Green book was a 2014 Indie Book Awards Winner.