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Date of lecture: February 2, 2025
Abstract
This talk focuses on the growing demand for LCA tools that measure the embodied impacts of a building’s material components and systems. Participants will learn about architect’s can make better and faster design decisions in market-driven design workflows with LCA data driven tools. We will discuss the academy’s role in building capacity for metrics-based design professional practice.
Short Bio
John Cays is Professor of Practice in the New Jersey School of Architecture at NJIT’s Hillier College of Architecture and Design. John holds a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of the Arts and Master of Architecture degree from Princeton University. He is a recognized sustainable design professional and lectures internationally on the subject of Life Cycle Assessment in Architecture. John co-founded GRADE Architects, an architecture and interior design firm in NYC. Prior to that John was a project manager at Robert A.M. Stern Architects.
John has been active in various academic and professional associations, including serving as North East Regional Director for the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture from 2014 – 2017 and as a Director on the National Architectural Accrediting Board from 2017 – 2020. He served as the Hillier College Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2005 to 2024. He currently serves on the SIGGRAPH Education Committee and is a current Board member of the American Center for Life Cycle Assessment. John was the 2021 recipient of the ACLCA Education LCA Leadership Award. He is the Author of An Environmental Life Cycle Approach to Design: LCA for Designers and the Design Market published by Springer Nature.