Commercial fitouts are replaced far more frequently than most structural or external building elements.
Furniture, finishes and interior systems may move through several replacement cycles during the life of a building, meaning their embodied carbon can accumulate considerably over time.
For architects and interior designers, the challenge is knowing how to compare those impacts and translate increasingly sophisticated carbon information into practical specification decisions.
The upcoming CPD Live session Decoding Carbon – Turning Data into Better Design Decisions addresses precisely that challenge.
Presented by Living Edge, the session will explore how commercial fitouts contribute to whole-of-building carbon emissions and explain the types of carbon data now available to architects and designers.
Speakers Guy Walsh, Sustainability Strategist at Living Edge, and Esther Bailey, Chief Operating Officer at Rebuilt, will examine how this information can be interpreted and used to inform design.
The discussion will also consider tools and frameworks including Green Star Fitouts, and use practical examples to demonstrate how designers can identify opportunities to reduce carbon through material and product choices.
Importantly, the session moves the conversation beyond simply collecting environmental information. Carbon data only becomes useful when it can inform a decision – whether that means comparing products, extending product life, reconsidering replacement cycles or designing out unnecessary embodied impacts.
For architects and designers working across commercial interiors, understanding the language of carbon is rapidly becoming part of the language of specification.
Decoding Carbon – Turning Data into Better Design Decisions
Date: 22 October 2026
11:00am–12:00pm AEDT
1 Formal CPD Point
Presented by Living Edge
