Marcella Saade
Graz University of Technology
Assistant Professorship
Marcella Saade (TU Graz) graduated as an Environmental Engineer in 2010, in Brazil. She obtained her MSc in Civil Engineering in 2013, and her PhD in Civil Engineering in 2017. She worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Circular Economy of the University of Sherbrooke, in Canada, from 2018 to 2020, where she actively collaborated with the National Research Council on developing guidelines for buildings LCA.
She is a member of the Technical Helpdesk for LCA databases of the One Planet Network; of the Technical Committee of Low-carbon assets through life cycle assessment initiative of the Canadian National Research Council; and of IEA EBC Annex 72 – Assessing Life Cycle Related Environmental Impacts Caused by Buildings.
The focus of Marcella’s work is on life cycle inventory generation, dynamic modelling of carbon cycles and impact distribution in multifunctional processes. Since April 2021 she is a researcher at the Institute of Structural Design of TU Graz.
My Speakers Sessions
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Monday, 14 November, 2022
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BILT Europe 2022, Valencia | Keynote: Considering global warming potential in the design processMarcella Saade, Graz University of Technology
Synopsis:
Why is it important for designers to consider the concepts of sustainability, circular economy or, more specifically, climate change in their creative process? Will the introduction of these parameters into your typical design workflow hinder your creative freedom?
When designing a certain space, one has the ultimate noble goal of serving its users. Yet nowadays, one of the greatest needs of society in general is to limit climate change.
The consideration of greenhouse gas emissions that stem from the establishment of the built environment and the knowledge on how to control or limit them should become part of the already sophisticated skill set of designers. But how to assess yet another quantitative parameter without tainting the beauty of the creative process?
This talk aims to explore the possibilities available to designers today to control the environmental impact of their design, while breaking paradigms and misconceptions related to building sustainability which diminishes the realm of choices that can be made throughout the design process.
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