March 18 Webinar | HSS in Sustainable Construction: Policies, Impacts, and Opportunities

Description

Title: HSS in Sustainable Construction: Policies, Impacts, and Opportunities
Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2026
Time: 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. CT
Format: Live Webinar
Level: Beginner, Informational, Design Professionals, Engineers, Fabricators

This session will provide a clear understanding of how Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) and Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) apply to HSS products. Participants will learn how EPDs function not only as compliance documents but also as tools for transparency and design optimization. The session will demonstrate how to evaluate HSS EPDs to extract meaningful environmental performance data and apply it to sourcing, design, and specification choices. Attendees will leave with practical knowledge on how to optimize HSS construction and promote lower embodied carbon in buildings.

Learning Objectives

• Identify the key aspects of LCAs and EPDs as they apply to HSS products.
• Differentiate how EPDs function as tools for compliance, customer transparency, and design optimization.
• Evaluate HSS EPDs to extract environmental performance data relevant to sourcing, design, and specification decisions.
• Apply EPD data to optimize HSS construction to promote lower embodied carbon building.

Speaker – Vicki Rybl
Vicki is Director of Life Cycle Assessment at WAP Sustainability – a full service sustainability consulting and software development firm. She brings more than a decade of experience in life cycle assessment, environmental product declaration, green building, and renewable energy development to her work. She specializes in carbon footprinting and EPD development work and has worked in a multitude of product sectors, but extensively in the building construction realm. She has led the development of industry average and manufacturer-specific LCAs and EPDs across the steel industry in North America. She works with clients from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups to help identify environmental impacts in their manufacturing processes and supply chains, supporting decarbonization, product optimization, and sustainability storytelling. She is an active member of the American Center for Life Cycle Assessment and is a Life Cycle Assessment Certified Professional.

Professional Development Hours
Each participant can earn 1.0 PDH or 1.0 LU/HSW and receive a certificate of completion from the Steel Tube Institute (STI). To receive a certificate from STI, you must login to the webinar via your unique registration link, attend the webinar in its entirety, and complete both poll questions.

Any participant that holds a PE license in Florida, Maryland, New York and/or North Carolina is required to complete a quiz for your PDH. Architects must complete the quiz for their LU/HSW and send their AIA number to sfontaine@steeltubeinstitute.org to have attendance reported to AIA. The quiz widget is available along the bottom row of the ON24 dashboard.

Registration Types & Fees

• HSS Professional Member
  • Individual: Registration is free with your individual membership.
  • Group: Registration is free with your group membership.
• Non-Member
  • Individual: $95 for individual registration.
  • Group: Only available with an HSS Professional Group Membership.

Individual registration provides a unique link for one login and is eligible for one PDH certificate upon successfully completing the webinar requirements.

Group registration, only available for HSS Professional Group Members, allows multiple attendees to view the webinar in one room or multiple people from the same office to view individually.

• The office contact for the HSS Professional Group Membership will receive a separate email with instructions for group viewing. 
• If viewing in one room, multiple PDH certificates may be issued provided the poll questions are completed by the group leader during the webinar, the group completes quiz together immediately following the webinar, and the attendee list is submitted within 48 hours of the webinar conclusion. All attendees on the list must have attended the webinar for its entirety.
• To view individually, each person will need to register individually.

AIA CES Provider statement
The Steel Tube Institute is a registered provider of AIA-approved continuing education under Provider Number 50111160, expiration 12/31/2026. All registered AIA CES Providers must comply with the AIA Standards for Continuing Education Programs. Any questions or concerns about this provider or this learning program may be sent to AIA CES (cessupport@aia.org or (800) AIA 3837, Option 3).

This learning program is registered with AIA CES for continuing professional education. As such, it does not include content that may be deemed or construed to be an approval or endorsement by the AIA of any material of construction or any method or manner of handling, using, distributing, or dealing in any material or product.

AIA continuing education credit has been reviewed and approved by AIA CES. Learners must complete the entire learning program to receive continuing education credit. AIA continuing education Learning Units earned upon completion of this course will be reported to AIA CES for AIA members. Certificates of Completion for both AIA members and non-AIA members are available upon request.