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Expert urges Eugene working group to use road bond, procurement pilots to cut embodied carbon in city projects
Summary
Guest presenter Webley outlined policy tools — from Buy Clean-style procurement to deconstruction incentives and DEQ grants — and the commission recommended focusing early pilots where the city spends most (roads/concrete) and compiling case studies for a council briefing.
Webley, an architect and member of the Oregon State Sustainability Board, told the Eugene Sustainability Commission’s Sustainable Building Tech working group that the city can make immediate embodied-carbon reductions by targeting where it spends money and piloting low-carbon materials in upcoming capital projects.
“Look at where the city is spending money,” Webley said during a 45-minute presentation on options for embodied-carbon policy. He described five policy buckets — government and infrastructure procurement, local codes and zoning, deconstruction and reuse, incentives and disclosure, and education — and urged the group to consider pilot projects tied to the recently passed roads and parks bond, where large amounts of asphalt and concrete will be procured.
The recommendation to focus on procurement followed examples Webley cited from other…
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