Embodied Greenhouse Gas Symposium 2026

How can Canada meet the simultaneous challenges of scaling up its infrastructure and housing to keep pace with population growth while also achieving ambitious targets for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions?

Join the Centre for the Sustainable Built Environment for the 3nd Embodied GHG Symposium. This half-day event will explore solutions to building more housing and infrastructure with less greenhouse gas pollution. This year talks from the lectern will discuss the transition to sustainable construction materials with a focus on steel, concrete and wood.

The Embodied GHG Symposium will present the latest embodied GHG research, policy, case studies, and prove opportunities for networking with industry professionals, academics and policymakers. During the embodied GHG symposium, we will have a poster session presenting research and case studies along the theme of reducing resource use and embodied GHG in the construction sector. The work can be at the building, multiple building, infrastructure, neighbourhood, city, regional and/or national scale for any country. The work must deal with embodied GHG and/or resource use the AEC sector.

This year’s keynote speaker is Hans van der Weijde, Director of Research and Development at Tata Steel in the Netherlands. In addition to this role, he serves as an advisor on various government committees and boards across the Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium, focusing on innovation in materials, hydrogen, and circularity. Notably, he chairs the program board of “Growing with Green Steel,” a significant knowledge and innovation initiative involving over 30 partners working on transformative changes in the steel industry. Hans’s expertise spans steel applications in diverse markets, steel processing, and the energy transition within the steel industry. He also has a keen interest in circularity and the materials aspect of strategic autonomy, aspects that also drive change in the European setting for the industry

If you would like to present a poster please, submit an abstract here.