BuildingEnergy NYC 2026 Session Lineup Preview

Here is your sneak preview of the sessions for NESEA's fall flagship event, BuildingEnergy NYC! In the coming weeks, we'll be adding more information, including final session details (speakers and descriptions), community events, trade show information, and registration details.

Mark your calendar to join us for the conference on October 15, 2026. Registration will open in August.

  • Persuasion, Pushback, and Compromise: Making the Case for Passive House

  • Health, Resilience, and Comfort: Centering the Human Experience

  • Spinach and Sustainability: Making Green Irresistible

  • Developing Energy Programs with a Community First Approach

  • Beyond Operational Energy: Demystifying MEP Embodied Carbon

  • Convince Us Otherwise: When Electrification Doesn’t Pencil

  • From Reactive to Predictive: Entering a New Era of Building Performance

  • Improving Multifamily Ventilation Retrofits through Industry Collaboration

  • Collaboration & Cooperation for Climate: The Seed Collaborative Model

  • Lessons Learned from 5 Central HPWHs

  • Stony Brook University’s Decarbonization is Resilient and Sustainable

  • Deep Energy Retrofit-Highlighting the Efficiency of Building Envelopes and MEP Systems

  • Decarbonization for Co-ops: NYC’s First C-PACE Financing Case Study

  • AI Is Changing Sustainability in Construction

  • Collaborating to Make Architectural Glass Recycling the New Status Quo

  • Decarbonization Planning for State Assets & Facilities

All of these sessions relate to our 2026 conference theme, Collaborate, Communicate, Convince. This theme reflects the skills and strategies needed to advance high‑performance, low‑carbon, and equitable transformation in the built environment. Today’s challenges demand solutions that include collaboration across disciplines, sectors, and communities; communication that clearly conveys the purpose and impact of our work; and the ability to convince key stakeholders to invest in scalable, meaningful solutions.