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Date: Wednesday, June 17, 2026
Event Time: 2:00 - 3:30 PM
Venue: Online
Event Cost: free
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This is your opportunity to share your vision and help to shape the 2027 event! We will be holding this year's BuildingEnergy Boston Open Planning Meeting online on June 17 and will be asking questions such as:

• What new skills, knowledge, and solutions are most needed in our field today?
• How can we step up our game to meet new challenges and opportunities?
• What session topics and speakers would create an extraordinary learning experience at the BuildingEnergy 2027 conference?

The meeting will be interactive and paced to allow thoughtful conversation with other professionals from around the Northeast. You will also learn how you can become a member of the Content Committee, which reviews session proposals and guides their development into high-quality conference sessions. BuildingEnergy Boston will be taking place on March 10-11, 2027 at the Westin Boston Seaport District.

The planning meeting is free and open to all — NESEA Membership is not required to attend. For more information, contact Ben Sachs-Hamilton, Conference Director, at bsachs-hamilton@nesea.org.

Deadline: Friday, July 24, 2026

Each year, the NESEA Membership elects individuals to serve on our Board of Directors after an open call for applications, which is open now. We're looking for people who love NESEA and feel a call to serve its mission and vision. 

The deadline to apply for consideration is July 24. Current members of the Board’s Nominating Committee will review and vet applications to develop a slate of candidates for the ballot. The NESEA Membership will be invited to cast their votes this fall, and the new Board term will start on January 1, 2027. Prior to applying, we recommend viewing the Board Member job description. If you are interested in being considered as a candidate, you can complete the application here (you must log in to view the form). 

We encourage applications from individuals who identify as women, people of color, or LGBTQ+, and other groups traditionally underrepresented in our industry. We also recognize that serving on a Board of Directors and attending in-person meetings may be prohibitively expensive and have made funds available to support board members for whom participation would be a financial hardship.

Questions? Contact us at nominating@nesea.org.

Event Date: Friday, June 26, 2026
Event Time: 1:30 PM - 5 PM
Location: Boston, MA
Event Cost: $35 Members / $45 Non-Members
CEU Information: AIA (pending)
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Join us in Boston for a Pro Tour of an innovative new school and community facility, located on a tight, one-acre site in Boston’s dense, historic Chinatown. This building is a transformative example of high-performance, sustainable, and inclusive school. Designed to serve 650 students in grades 6-12, this all-electric, LEED Platinum-certified facility replaces outdated buildings with a fully programmed middle and high school campus focused on health, equity, and climate resilience.

You can see the full schedule of our 2026 BuildingEnergy Pro Tours Series below. We'll share more details as the dates get closer. We hope you will join us at a Pro Tour near you!

For information about Pro Tour sponsorship opportunities, please visit here.

MassDevelopment - Boston, MA

See all member organizations on NESEA's Business Member Directory. Learn more about business, academic, and non-profit/government membership on our website.

In an effort to reduce the carbon impact of our BuildingEnergy Boston Conference in March, we teamed with Greener by Default to serve innovative, plant-rich lunches at our event. This graphic highlights the carbon savings stemming from this partnership. Thank you, Greener by Default!

Our 2026 Pro Tour Series kicked off with two fascinating and well attended building tours. First, we toured two occupied buildings in Boston in the middle of undergoing an ambitious deep energy retrofit. From there, we changed tack to focus on a new construction single family home in Sherborn MA, which is being designed to minimize embodied carbon, maximize operational efficiency, support healthy indoor air quality. Our thanks go out to the attendees and sponsors who made these events possible. We hope to see you at a Pro Tour near you soon!

When: Sept 12, 2026
Location: Ashfield Lake

We recently received word that our submission for the Ashfield Massachusetts Lighted Boat Parade was accepted. A small crew of NESEA Members, along with some members of NESEA staff, will create lighted boat display celebrating Ashfield's commitment to sustainability and clean energy for an aquatic parade this September. Our thanks go out to the NESEA Members who joined the project for their ideas and encouragement!

The ability to post on NESEA's Jobs Board is a benefit of NESEA Business, Academic, and Non-Profit Membership. Here are a few of this month's featured jobs:

Boston, MA: West Work is seeking an Energy Design Lead to join our growing sustainability and building performance team. This role is ideal for a trained architect, architectural designer, or building scientist with a strong interest in high-performance building envelope design and Passive House strategies. Read more...

Walpole, NH: Support project managers, architects, and engineers with energy analysis and MEP / HVAC design through all stages of project development, as well as R&D efforts throughout the company. Consult with clients and sub-contractors to recommend high performance systems and assemblies. This role will be located in our Walpole or Keene, NH facilities. Read more...

Newton, MA: The Program Manager will have day-to-day responsibility for the delivery of Studio HPDC’s High-Performance Building courses, targeting mid-career builders in Eastern Massachusetts. High-Performance Building for Carpenters is Studio HPDC”s “flagship” course, for experienced builders and carpenters, and is at the heart of Studio HPDC’s mission and values. Read more...

We like to help spread the word about upcoming member events and news items. Members can submit news items via this form or post events to our community events calendar, and we’ll try to include them in the next NESEA Monthly.

Kaplan Thompson Architects is pleased to announce that team member Meg Bunke has officially become a Licensed Architect in the State of Maine. This milestone represents a major step forward in her career and adds valuable expertise to the firm.

Meg’s journey to licensure is rooted in a unique blend of fine arts and environmental sustainability. She graduated from Bowdoin College in 2014 with a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Art, and earned her Master of Architecture from the University of Texas at Austin in 2021, combining her artistic background with a desire to work in the sustainability field. Since joining the firm in 2021, she has brought a unique and valuable perspective to the Kaplan Thompson team.

She has contributed to a variety of significant regional projects, including the multi-family Lewiston Choice Wedgewood Neighborhood development and award-winning single-family residential projects such as Squid Cove on Mount Desert Island and Woodward in Brunswick, Maine. Read more...

Hosting Organizations: Greenfield Community College and the Franklin Country Chamber of Commerce
Date and Time: 4^th Thursday, Monthly, 4PM-6PM
Location: Incandescent Brewing, Bernardston, MA

Green Drinks is a monthly gathering that Greenfield Community College and the Franklin County Chamber of Commerce co-host at Incandescent Brewing in Bernardston, MA. It’s an informal networking event for folks in clean energy and the trades—no formal program, just a chance to connect. We’d love to have you or your team join us. It’s held on the 4th Thursday of every month from 4–6 PM.

Event Hosts: American Solar Energy Society
Dates: October 19-21
Location: Austin, TX (Palmer Events Center)

For more than five decades, the National Solar Conference has brought together researchers, industry leaders, policymakers, educators, and advocates to share technological innovations and strategies advancing renewable energy.

Our friends at ASES have shared a discount code for the NESEA Community for an additional 15% off at registration: use the code GOSOLAR at checkout! Learn more...

Did you know that NESEA Members receive special discounts when sponsoring NESEA Events such as BuildingEnergy NYC? Learn more about Sponsoring our fall conference here. If you have a question about your membership status, contact Katie Schendel, at kschendel@nesea.org and if you have questions about sponsoring, contact us at sponsorships@nesea.org.