Built Environment Subcommittee, SMMP Task Force

Materials and products used in the Built Environment have significant impacts across their life cycle, as they account for 14.4% of the State’s consumption-based emissions, may contain toxics and chemicals of concern that impact human and environmental health, can be embedded with social inequities such as forced and child labor, and make up approximately one-third of Oregon’s waste stream. The recommendations from this committee provide opportunities to address these impacts while providing much needed housing and infrastructure.

Focus Areas

ADAPTIVE REUSE OF EXISTING BUILDINGS: Revitalize and repurpose old, vacant or underused structures for new uses instead of demolishing them, giving buildings a second life.

EMBODIED CARBON IN CODES: Reduce the total lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions of buildings by preserving existing structures when possible, minimizing the need for new materials; measuring and managing the carbon emissions already locked into the materials that are in use.

DECONSTRUCTION AND MATERIAL RECLAMATION: Carefully dismantle buildings to recover valuable materials for reuse, recycling or repurposing.

Meetings

Subcommittee Members

Sonya Carlson, BRING
Amanda Ingmire, Oregon DEQ
Sean McGuire, Benton County
Bailey Payne, Benton County
Shane Sanderson, Linn County
Nate Tisdell, Linn County
Lauren Zimmermann, City of Portland, Bureau of Planning & Sustainability