The Bow Valley Sustainable Building Summit: Dr. Henry Tsang

Dr. Henry Tsang will be presenting a webinar as part of the Bow Valley Sustainable Building Summit hosted by the Biosphere Institute on the topic of 'Designing for Climate Change: An Architect's Responsibility'. Everyone is welcome!  

The Bow Valley Sustainable Building Summit 

Guest Speaker: 

Dr. Henry Tsang, OAQ, MRAIC, LEED GA, WELL AP

Registered Architect & Assistant Professor

Athabasca University, RAIC Centre for Architecture 

Topic: Designing for Climate Change: An Architect's Responsibility 

Date: October 7, 2020 

Time: 11:00AM MDT (Canmore, Canada) 

Admission: Free

Profile:

Dr. Henry Tsang
B.Sc.Arch (McGill), M.Arch (McGill), Ph.D (UTokyo)
Architect, OAQ, MRAIC, LEED GA, WELL AP
Assistant Professor, Athabasca University, RAIC Centre for Architecture

Secretary, RAIC Alberta Chapter

Dr. Henry Tsang is an award-winning architect, educator and researcher on topics related to sustainable, regenerative, healthy, and resilient design. He is an assistant professor at the RAIC Centre for Architecture at Athabasca University and secretary of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada’s Calgary Network.

He completed his B.Sc.Arch and M.Arch. at McGill University, and Ph.D. at the University of Tokyo as a Monbukagakusho Scholar. As a licensed architect, he formerly worked at firms Lemay & Michaud in Quebec and Nihon Sekkei in Japan. In 2013, he was appointed director of the Sustainable Architecture Technology program at Herzing College, and in 2015, a visiting professor at Keimyung University in South Korea.

In addition, he has been working closely with the Canada Green Building Council, preparing research reports, and developing green building educational material on building standards LEED, Living Building Challenge and WELL. He often lectures at universities and major conferences, including the Urban Land Institute, TED and the United Nations. Otherwise, his pioneering research work has also been published in many scholarly journals.

In recognition of his achievements, Henry was awarded the 2015 National Association of Career College’s Educator of the Year and 2018 Robert Fung International Award of Distinction.

Abstract: 

Climate change is the most pressing and complex design Climate change is the problem of our time. Not only is climate change deteriorating the planet as we know it, it is posing an existential threat to humanity, and architecture is complicit. The built environment accounts for nearly 40% of energy-related greenhouse gas emissions and pervasively impacts our societies and health. Through their primary role in shaping the built environment, architects possess both the capability and moral duty to enable transformational, green, sustainable, regenerative, healthy and resilient design solutions. So, as a profession, where do we go from here?