Rype Academy
Knowledge to create Net Zero Carbon commercial interiors
Build expertise for yourself and/or your colleagues with easy-to-digest modules. Live webinars comprise 15 minutes of training followed by 15 minutes for questions. Attendance is limited to 25 so everyone can participate. Videos of past presentations build an authoritative, comprehensive curriculum.
Designed and presented by Dr Greg Lavery, these webinars distill lessons from his 30 years of improving the sustainability of the built environment, including over 300 low carbon office projects.
If a topic resonates for your organisation, please email contact@RypeOffice.com requesting a private session.
Training Modules
Module 1: Where are the carbon emissions in commercial buildings?
The built environment sector has historically focussed attention on operating emissions, but these are much less than embodied emissions.
Learn exactly where the carbon emissions are in a commercial building, enabling property professionals and designers to focus on the largest and easiest to reduce.
Module 2: How to get an office fit-out to Net Zero Carbon cost-effectively
Net Zero Carbon offices require a different approach than high carbon spaces.
This webinar explains the simple steps to cost-effectively drive down fit-out carbon emissions.
Module 3: What does a Net Zero Carbon workspace look like?
Does Net Zero Carbon offer a new aesthetic? How does it change the look, feel and performance of spaces?
This webinar provides a glimpse into the future of office layout, form and function in a Net Zero Carbon world.
Module 4: What does a Net Zero Carbon campus look like?
Campuses will function very differently in the Net Zero Carbon future where waste becomes a feedstock in multi-life circular usage.
This module moves beyond individual buildings (covered in Module 3) to present a low carbon model for universities, schools, hospitals, office precincts, and corporate office networks.
Module 5: The 5 simple metrics for measuring the sustainability of your Net Zero Carbon office
Setting up a project to be sustainable requires a handful of powerful metrics that can be benchmarked, agreed and then managed through the project stages.
This webinar presents a proven set of five metrics which achieve triple bottom line impact – ensuring that low carbon fit-outs are excellent value for money, create desired environmental benefits and support the community.
Module 6: How to calculate the carbon emissions of an office fit-out
Reducing carbon emissions requires a standard, rigorous and publicly defensible method for calculating carbon emissions. Without this, all of the hard work to reduce emissions risks being called out as greenwash – creating reputational damage and hindering progress for all of us.
An industry-standard approach to greenhouse gas emissions is presented that considers the life-cycle of a product – and how to aggregate this for entire fit-out projects.
Module 7: The 3 things you need to do differently for a Net Zero Carbon fit-out
Reducing carbon emissions in fit-out projects requires a different project approach from the outset to ensure the right expertise, data and tools are being used.
Based on experience from over 300 projects, this webinar presents the three must-do actions to set up a project to achieve its carbon reduction targets.
Module 8: Why staff and visitors love Net Zero Carbon offices
There are a lot of things to like about a low carbon office – some of which can help build the business case for meaningful carbon emission reduction targets.
This session explains the impacts on staff morale, productivity, attraction and retention of low carbon offices. It also explains how a low carbon office can align values of visiting customers and suppliers for more fruitful relationships.
11:30am 24 April 2024
Module 9: How to convince others to act on climate change
Drawing on the research of Thomas Kuhn and Professor Damon Centola, this session explains the process of building consensus to change how things are done.
This is designed to help you to change how your organisation approaches commercial interiors to drive lower environmental impact and greater community benefits.
11:30am 8 May 2024
Module 10: How to create social value through your low carbon office fit-out
Low carbon solutions can and should create benefits for local communities and those furthest from the workforce.
This session demonstrates how this social value can be accessed as a by-product of reducing carbon emissions.
11:30am 22 May 2024
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