BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 - Sessions by Room
Sessions in Marina 1
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Equitable, Data Driven, Domestic Hot Water Decarbonization While electrification of domestic hot water is picking up steam, outdated sizing guidelines result in oversized, expensive, and inefficient systems, especially in affordable multifamily housing.... Full Description |
10:30 am to 12:00 pm |
Charlie Simek Neil Donnelly |
Justice and Equity Design and Construction Process Building Systems |
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Energizing Tomorrow: Navigating the Identification and Evaluation Processes for Successful Geothermal Projects Join us for an enlightening panel session that delves into the pivotal role geothermal can play in commercial and network scale building decarbonization, energy consumption reduction, and climate... Full Description |
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm |
Joshua Soble Bill Foley Isabel Varela Gutierrez Tim Ashmore Brock Yordy |
Design and Construction Process Building Systems Operations and Maintenance |
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Hot Water Electrification: Methods to Reduce First Costs, Embodied Carbon, and Operating Costs Producing domestic hot water is costly in terms of energy required to physically heat water, and financially when opting to use electricity to do so. Advances in DHW system efficiencies and... Full Description |
2:30 pm to 3:30 pm |
James Petersen Daniel Perez |
Building Systems Policy, Codes, and Standards |
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Thermal Resilience as a Retrofit Metric This session will discuss thermal resilience as a benefit of passive building strategies, and its impact on occupant safety during an outage situation. The session will explore modeling methods to... Full Description |
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Al Mitchell |
Building Envelope Building Systems Energy Production and Storage |
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The RESNET Carbon Trifecta: HERS Index + CO2 Index + Embodied Carbon The "trifecta" of RESNET standards concerning operations (HERS Index), the grid (CO2 Index), and embodied carbon together provide the capacity to analyze Carbon Usage Intensity. This session will... Full Description |
10:30 am to 12:00 pm |
Andy Buccino Nicole Burger Jacob Racusin |
Justice and Equity Materials Energy Production and Storage Policy, Codes, and Standards |
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Monitored VRF Performance in New Multifamily Buildings Speakers will review findings from a DOE-sponsored study of VRF performance in three new, multifamily buildings in New York City. Two of the buildings are affordable Passive House properties. The... Full Description |
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm |
Dylan Martello Shari Rauls |
Design and Construction Process Building Systems Health and Comfort |
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Massachusetts Stretch and Specialized Codes This panel will discuss the Massachusetts Stretch and Specialized Codes, including key provisions such as thermal bridge accounting and mitigation, thermal energy demand intensity (TEDI),... Full Description |
2:30 pm to 3:30 pm |
Paul Ormond Joanne Bissetta Christopher Grey Olivia Brady |
Design and Construction Process Policy, Codes, and Standards |
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What We Wish Everyone Knew: Using Commissioning Discoveries to Make Buildings Better Audience participation will be welcome during this interactive session exploring avoidable issues found during commissioning, how they result in brand new systems being installed in ways that... Full Description |
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm |
Nate Goodell Louis Vogel |
Design and Construction Process Building Systems Health and Comfort Operations and Maintenance |
