Live Webinar with Grimm + Parker 

AIAPV has partnered with Grimm + Parker Architects to offer a limited number of slots for live-webinar online-access of the firm's Lunch & Learn CEU events on the first Tuesday of each month. AIAPV appreciates Grimm + Parker's support in enabling the chapter to provide this valuable benefit for the convenience of members unable to get to our educational events in person.

First Tuesday Lunch & Learn

Concrete as a Sustainable Building Material

Course Description

As the concrete industry begins to grapple with the concept of sustainability, it is important to understand the complex factors to consider in truly declaring something sustainable. This presentation begins by helping the audience to understand why being sustainable matters, and why CO2 has been the critical focus of environmentalist and more recently regulators. It then leads the audience to more broadly discuss sustainability not as a single metric (CO2 emissions), but as a multivariable conversation. Critically concrete is well positioned to address many of these present challenges by simply reframing the conversations we have with the construction community. It also highlights some newer developments that will position the concrete industry to be leaders on issues of sustainable development.

1 LU/HSW

Learning objectives

1. Understand the growing scale of real dollar impacts of climate change
2. Understand why CO2 has been a focus of environmentalists and regulators
3. Understand that sustainable is more than just the lowest CO2 emissions, but rather a multivariable problem
4. Show that concrete is well positioned to address the full breadth of the sustainability challenge

Presenter: Dr. Aaron Fisher, PhD PMP | VP of Business Development – Ernest Maier, Inc.; Mobile (202) 510-5545 | [email protected]

Dr. Aaron Fisher has a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Maryland and a B.S. in Chemistry from Duke University. He is currently the Vice President of Business Development for Ernest Maier; a family-owned company. Dr. Fisher is responsible for PaveDrain a heavy duty, low-maintenance permeable pavement and fiberglass rebar, a stronger, more sustainable, corrosion-proof alternative to steel rebar. Dr. Fisher has a deep technical background in all aspects of sustainability. He has served as a contractor to several programmatic offices within the U.S. Department of Energy- Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Office. He has also led the innovation program at Water Research Foundation on behalf of wastewater, stormwater, and drinking water utilities across the United States.

Ernest Maier is an Annual Partner of AIA Potomac Valley.

Provider: AIA Potomac Valley (A183), Course #PV-EM110723
AIA credits and certificates will be processed by AIA Potomac Valley.

Registrants will receive the login credentials with registration confirmation and via email prior to the webinar.