Community Events

At NEEP, collaboration is more than a principle — it’s our foundation. Our work has never been a single voice — it’s the chorus. The “us” is every partner, every community, and every leader ready to drive our region toward an affordable, clean, and resilient energy system. For more than three

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Carpenters, Builders, and Residential GC's: learn high-performance building install skills BEFORE you need them with a client. Studio HPDC's course combines building science and control layer basics with hands-on practice with plans, mock-ups, and frequently used tapes and materials - all inside ...

Join us for a casual, fun, and free event for women, trans, and non-binary folks in construction, design, and engineering. 

Participants gather to connect, share experiences, and build a supportive community.

Feel free to bring a friend or colleague who might be interested. The

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The BuildingEnergy NYC 2026 Content Committee will be meeting to make final decisions about this year's conference session lineup. This meeting is private, open only to the NESEA Member-volunteers serving on this year's committee.

On June 5, NESEA will bring attendees behind-the-scenes for a Pro Tour of a new, 124 unit affordable passive housing development in Salem, MA. This project is being built for Passive House certification, and will include flood-resistant features to help to protect occupants from coastal climate ...

Every year, the NESEA community comes together to create a vision for the BuildingEnergy Boston conference, ensuring that its theme and content are timely and relevant for a wide range of building and energy practitioners.

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- ...

The BE+ Building Tech Forum is back! Keep your finger on the pulse of industry transformation and connect with 300+ leading architects, engineers, building owners, operators, contractors, manufacturers, utility reps, sustainability consultants, investors, lenders, and more.

We’ll feature

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Join NESEA for a Pro Tour that demonstrates, at real scale, how high-performance building strategies can directly support both climate goals and housing affordability. We will be touring and learning about a new development in Dorchester that delivers 12 affordable homeownership units across four ...

Join NESEA for a Pro Tour of a new, all-electric, 6,000-square-foot nature conservancy headquarters in Southern New Hampshire. This recently completed net-zero energy building demonstrates how high-performance, low-carbon goals can be achieved within a typical nonprofit construction budget when ...

On September 4, NESEA returns to Burlington, VT for an in-depth Pro Tour of a new, all-electric high school and tech center. We’ll be visiting a 250,000 square-foot campus and learning from the professionals behind the project how it all came together.

Join NESEA for an in-depth Pro Tour of a redesigned and fiercely independent art center that dates back to 1979 when it became a haven for radical art and radical politics, squatters and hardcore punks. Over the decades, as other downtown spaces went under or were priced out, this space has endured ...

NESEA returns to New York’s Capital District for a Pro Tour of a new, 3-phase Passive House development project. When complete, this development will total over 200,000 square feet and provide a total of 168 Passive House-certified units, making it one of the largest Phius-certified projects to ...

NESEA is excited to announce the dates for our next BuildingEnergy NYC Conference: October 15, 2026! We will be back at Convene 237 Park Ave. for an inspiring day of learning and connecting with a wide array of industry leaders and emerging professionals.

SOLAR 2026 will be held in partnership with the Texas Solar Energy Society (TXSES) during its landmark 50th anniversary year.

The conference brings the solar community together to accelerate the adoption of solar energy as the solution for providing our buildings, homes, and communities

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