January 11, 2024 - Top 10 Ways to Reduce Concrete's Carbon Footprint
Thursday, January 11, 12:00 to 1:00pm EST, online (Zoom)
CLF Pittsburgh and CLF Philly, in partnership with Penn State, organized a virtual webinar on various strategies that take advantage of concrete's benefits while ensuring the lowest possible carbon footprint.
Speakers included Frank Mruk, FAIA, LEED AP from the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association, Noah Shaltes from The Lindy Group, and Adam Marino from Castle Builders Supply.
The webinar recording is available here.
Speakers:
Frank Mruk, FAIA, LEED AP is an architect and technology strategist. He is a founder and executive director of the NY Center for Strategic Innovation, the Boston Center for Smart Building Technology and is a Senior Director of Building Innovations at NRMCA. He was educated at Pratt Institute, Pace University and at the University of Oxford. He has taught Architecture at the School of Visual Arts, the Rhode Island School of Design, Roger Williams University, the Parsons School of Design, New York University, and at the New York Institute of Technology where he served as associate dean for the School of Architecture and Design and has been a visiting critic at Oxford Brooks University, the University of Chile, the Fashion Institute of Technology, Columbia University, Yale University and at MIT. He is the current president of AIA RI, and a past President of Metro NY ASP and Metro NY CSI.
Throughout his career, Noah Shaltes has dedicated himself to finding a way to build better. As an Architectural Engineering PhD candidate at Pennsylvania State University, he was developing a sustainable housing model for the Northern Cheyenne nation when he realized academia was not for him.
Noah joined general contractor PJ Dick in 2009 and has been a driving force in Western Pennsylvania's green building movement. He led construction of the Pittsburgh Park Conservancy's Frick Environmental Center, the first Living Building in the United States that is municipally owned, free, and open to the public. Noah has served as the President of the Board of Directors for the Green Building Alliance, chair of the Master Builders Association's Green Builders Committee, member of AGC of America's Task Force on Climate Change Technologies and Programs and helped to develop Pittsburgh as a United Nations Center of Excellence in High Performance Buildings. Noah is a LEED Accredited Professional and a Certified Passive House Consultant.
He is now the Director of Sustainability for The Lindy Group and is working to help decarbonize asphalt and concrete and develop ESG strategies for the family of companies.
