Topic Summary: Accounting for nearly 40% of CO2 emissions, the buildings and construction sector needs to reduce its carbon footprint if the goal of achieving less than 2 degree C increase in global temperature. For over a decade, the focus on increasing energy efficiency in building performance has made great strides, but they have only offset the increases of rapid growth in development, rather than led to the decreases necessary to meet global targets. In order to achieve the goals of decarbonization, new strategies are essential, and they need to have profound short- and long-term impacts to avoid the most catastrophic impacts of climate change.  One such approach that is rapidly gaining traction in the design and construction industry is the reduction of embodied carbon on projects. This strategy requires data and analysis from across the project team and lifecycle, engaging the efforts of owners, building product manufacturers, architects, engineers and contractors from early design through building operations. Join us as we present data from the latest Dodge Construction Network Research on this critical strategy and get the perspectives from leading practitioners on how to effectively engage the industry as a whole in this critical approach. Discussion will include advances in carbon-intensive building products, such as concrete, means of tracking and reducing carbon emissions, the role of data sharing and analysis in helping the industry to fully engage in this effort and other strategies like the circular economy, design for disassembly and reuse and other ways to permanently reduce the impact of design and construction on the planet.