ZED Celebrates 10 Years of AIA 2030 Commitment

According to the newly released 2020 Summary of the AIA 2030 Commitment report, ZeroEnergy Design is one of only 15 firms to achieve 80% or greater predicted EUI savings across their entire architectural portfolio. In 2020, 378 companies reported, representing 3.8 billion square feet across 102 countries.

For the tenth year in a row, ZED tracked and reported its energy data against the AIA 2030 Commitment and 2030 Challenge, each year exceeding the minimum thresholds. 2020 marked a significant milestone for the challenge, increasing the carbon reduction target from 70% to 80%.

Measuring Progress: AIA 2030 Report Summary for 2020
Over the course of 2020, ZED reported an impressive 102% reduction in pEUI savings across its entire architectural portfolio, outperforming the target for the 10th consecutive year.

The AIA 2030 Commitment program supports the AIA 2030 challenge, which calls for all new construction and major renovations to be carbon neutral by the year 2030 and provides architects, engineers, and owners a global platform to demonstrate action against climate change through energy-efficient design.

In 2020, the 2030 Commitment participants reported energy savings equivalent to carbon emissions that would be sequestered by more than 42.3 million acres of forest, or 34.6 million tons of CO2 emissions, in one year. Click below for the full report.

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AIA 2030 Commitment Report + ZeroEnergy Design

According to the newly released 2019 Summary of the AIA 2030 Commitment report, ZeroEnergy Design is one of only 27 firms nationwide to achieve 70% or greater predicted EUI savings across their entire architectural portfolio in 2019.

The AIA 2030 Commitment program supports the AIA 2030 challenge, which calls for all new construction and major renovations to be carbon neutral by the year 2030 and provides architects, engineers, and owners a global platform to demonstrate action against climate change through energy-efficient design.

Each year, the 2030 signatories track and report their annual progress against increasingly aggressive energy reduction targets. This year, ZED reported an impressive 97.9% reduction in pEUI savings across its entire architectural portfolio, easily achieving the targeted 70% carbon reduction for the ninth consecutive year.

The 2030 Commitment currently has 549 active signatories, out of which 311 firms submitted portfolios in 2019 on projects totaling 3.3 billion square feet across 107 countries. Together, these projects accounted for an overall pEUI reduction equivalent to avoiding 20.2 million tons of CO2 emissions.

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Architectural Digest Reviews the Architecture Industry's Response to Climate Change

Architectural Digest took a close look at the impact of the building and construction sector on climate change and what the architecture industry is doing to make a difference.

The article contains insights from leading industry experts, including AIA President Jane Frederick, Bjarke Ingels of BIG, and ZED Managing Director, Stephanie Horowitz.

In her interview for the article, Horowitz highlighted the importance of thinking ahead and designing and building today’s homes and buildings in alignment with the upcoming benchmarks for climate change. She also pointed out that it was not only new construction that needed to be addressed. “The new homes that we design and build are the low-hanging fruit. The challenge is the existing housing,” Horowitz said.

According to the AIA, 82% of the commercial buildings in the U.S. were built before 2000 - before the modernization of building energy codes for design and construction.

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ZED's Top Performance in AIA 2030 Commitment Recognized ON Rise

Rise, a leading online publication for sustainable home improvement, recently published a story on the impact of the AIA 2030 Challenge on the built environment and the continued efforts of leading firms such as ZeroEnergy Design to make their portfolios carbon neutral.

Each year, signatories of the AIA 2030 Commitment program, which supports the AIA 2030 Challenge, track and report their annual progress against energy reduction targets through energy-efficient design. In 2018, ZED reported an impressive 92.6% reduction in pEUI savings across its entire architectural portfolio, becoming one of only 16 firms nationwide to exceed the 70% target.

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