BuildingEnergy Boston 2023 Sessions

Event Date: Tue, 03/28/2023 - 9:00 am - Tue, 03/28/2023 - 10:00 am
Session Title	Speakers	Areas of Focus
Tuesday Keynote — Revolutionary Codes: Bringing Net-Zero to Scale This community has spent decades laying the groundwork for net-zero-energy buildings. Now we stand at an exciting turning point, as the technologies and approaches we have long fought for are… Full Description	Jacob Knowles Lisa Cunningham	Policy, Codes, and Standards

Event Date: Tue, 03/28/2023 - 10:30 am - Tue, 03/28/2023 - 12:00 pm
Session Title	Speakers	Areas of Focus
Commitment to Learning: A Case Study of Three Public Schools Public school projects are a highly visible commitment from a community towards future generations, serve a wide range of students from diverse backgrounds, and are a valuable resource to the… Full Description	Suni Dillard Alexandra Gadawski Caitlin Osepchuk	Building Systems Design and Construction Process Health and Comfort Materials
Scaling Low Carbon Market Transformation for Building Products Operational carbon is challenging but attacking embodied carbon is a complete nightmare! How can firms streamline the deadly research drain and get compliance across all teams for low carbon, healthy… Full Description	Barbra BatShalom Annie Bevan	Building Systems Design and Construction Process Justice and Equity Materials
Heat Pump Design Challenges in Larger Buildings: Air-to-Air VRF or Air-to-Water Hydronic Electrification of HVAC systems and the elimination of fossil fuel heating in high rise building space conditioning systems poses unique design and system selection challenges. Presenters will… Full Description	David Glickman Ari Greenberg	Building Systems Design and Construction Process
Zero Energy Modular at Scale: Factories, Builders, and Design Professionals Wanted VEIC’s work on Zero Energy Modular (ZEM) homes has helped hundreds of low and moderate income families achieve dignified, resilient, low-carbon housing. Over the past decade, we’ve partnered with… Full Description	Peter Schneider	Design and Construction Process Justice and Equity Policy, Codes, and Standards
Addressing Racism and Subtle Acts of Exclusion in the Design and Construction Workplace Expanding our workforce by meaningful inclusion and retention of people from marginalized groups will be critical to scale our work. We have all heard statements, jokes, and questions in the… Full Description	Fatou Njie-Jallow	Justice and Equity Training and Workforce Development

Event Date: Tue, 03/28/2023 - 1:00 pm - Tue, 03/28/2023 - 2:00 pm
Session Title	Speakers	Areas of Focus
Driving Down Carbon in Concrete: From One Project to the Mainstream Concrete accounts for approximately 11% of annual global carbon emissions. It is a material too important to ignore. Learn how BU’s Center for Computing and Data Sciences applied low-carbon concrete… Full Description	Rachelle Ain Nathan Roy Olivia Humphrey	Building Systems Design and Construction Process Materials Policy, Codes, and Standards
Accelerating Building Decarbonization with Tariffed On-Bill Financing Imagine your utility told you they wanted to invest in state-of-the-art technology for your home or business. No taking on debt, and no matter if you're a renter. Your obligation? Paying a monthly… Full Description	Ashley Muspratt Jonathan Blair	Business and Finance Justice and Equity
Hotel Marcel: The Only Passive House Certified Hotel Bruce Becker is the architect, developer, owner, and operator of Hotel Marcel. He will discuss the conversion of the formerly vacant Pirelli Building in New Haven into Hotel Marcel, a 165-room LEED… Full Description	Bruce Becker	Building Envelope Building Systems Design and Construction Process Energy Production and Storage
Tales from the Trenches: Passive House Ventilation Commissioning Roadblocks We will present tales from the trenches for ventilation approaches within the context of the Passive House building certification standard. This standard has set a high benchmark for low-energy… Full Description	Luis Aragon Michael Schmidt	Building Systems Design and Construction Process Health and Comfort Operations and Maintenance
Fundamentals of Functional Flashing The vast majority of construction defect litigation is over failures of water management. As we construct lower and lower energy buildings, we’re reducing their physical ability to withstand a little… Full Description	Ben Bogie	Building Envelope

Event Date: Tue, 03/28/2023 - 2:30 pm - Tue, 03/28/2023 - 3:30 pm
Session Title	Speakers	Areas of Focus
Energy Storage in High Performance Buildings Before PVs became affordable, excess solar energy was stored thermally. Energy storage, both thermal and electrical, aids grid penetration of renewables and builds resilience on-site. We’ll look at… Full Description	Marc Rosenbaum	Building Systems Energy Production and Storage
Reaching Net Zero Carbon through Building Energy Codes While the 2021 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) is already being used by some states, wider adoption is anticipated with the initiation of DOE’s Resilient and Efficient Codes… Full Description	Giulia Luci Ian Finlayson	Design and Construction Process Policy, Codes, and Standards
Climate Equity is Right Under Our Feet: Ground Source Heat Pumps and Community Thermal Networks Recent technology developments and incentive programs are creating new opportunities for ground-source heat pumps (GSHPs) at the building and neighborhood scale (networked geothermal). Practitioners… Full Description	Dave Hermantin Lauren Hildebrand Audrey Schulman	Building Systems Energy Production and Storage Health and Comfort Justice and Equity
Electrification Journeys: How Two Companies Decarbonized Their Manufacturing Processes Electrifying the manufacturing process of building materials is a critical step towards decarbonizing the built environment. Going where no companies have gone before, two leading edge companies… Full Description	Rob Conboy Jason Todd	Building Envelope Design and Construction Process Materials

Event Date: Tue, 03/28/2023 - 4:00 pm - Tue, 03/28/2023 - 5:00 pm
Session Title	Speakers	Areas of Focus
Pretty Good House: A Guide to Creating Better Homes Have you heard about the building standard that's not a standard? Learn how to create energy efficient, healthy, sustainable homes with an emphasis on making the concepts and technical details… Full Description	Emily Mottram Chris Briley	Building Envelope Design and Construction Process Health and Comfort Materials
The Results are In: Lessons Learned from Post Occupancy Data in Multifamily Passive Houses Curtis + Ginsberg Architects has completed 6 multifamily Passive House buildings, with two more in construction and six more in design. Steven Winter Associates has completed over 20 Passive House… Full Description	Mark Ginsberg Lois Arena	Building Envelope Building Systems Materials Operations and Maintenance
Scalable Ground Source Heat Pump Systems: Mass. Maritime Academy Case Study The Massachusetts Maritime Academy consists of 16 buildings comprising approximately 600,000 sf, with heating for the buildings is provided by gas fired hot water boilers in each. They have… Full Description	David Madigan Betsy Isenstein Tamar Warburg	Building Envelope Building Systems Design and Construction Process Energy Production and Storage
Leveraging Federal and State Incentives for Building Decarbonization While recent state legislation across the region has codified ambitious greenhouse gas emission reduction targets in statute, these bills have had a clear lack of funding to address the massive… Full Description	Steve Skodak Eben Perkins	Business and Finance Policy, Codes, and Standards Training and Workforce Development

Event Date: Wed, 03/29/2023 - 10:30 am - Wed, 03/29/2023 - 12:00 pm
Session Title	Speakers	Areas of Focus
Windows and Fenestration: Basics and Beyond Windows are a key part of the building enclosure, but they are also the costliest, most fragile, and worst thermally performing component. We will present on windows from our viewpoint as building… Full Description	Kohta Ueno Peter Baker	Building Envelope Building Systems Design and Construction Process Health and Comfort
Heads in Beds: the Colby College Hyper-Speed Dormitory Project Typical university dormitory projects are capital intensive and take several years to complete. This project turned this practice on its head. Using modular construction, on-site precast foundations… Full Description	Jesse Thompson Emily Greene Christina Consigli Sasha Azel	Building Envelope Building Systems Design and Construction Process
Global Adaptation of Passive House: Culture, Climate and Challenges With rising determination to fight the climate crisis worldwide, practitioners are finding the Passive House standard a potent solution for the building sector. As passive and other sustainable… Full Description	Christina Aßmann Ilka Cassidy Sangeetha Sambandam	Building Envelope Building Systems Design and Construction Process Materials
Building Relationships: Community Ambassadors and Advisors Research has shown that solar adoption in a neighborhood spurs more solar adoption. Conversely, if clean energy adoption is not seeded in other communities, these communities lose out on the benefits… Full Description	Meredith Geraghty Grace Umaña Lisa Dobbs Renée Burgher	Justice and Equity
Carbon Storing Buildings: A Gateway to Justice and Belonging Join principals of New Frameworks and Builders for Climate Action for a critical look at our practices that have endeavored to embed justice and belonging alongside the highest goals for building… Full Description	Chris Magwood Ace McArleton Jacob Deva Racusin	Building Systems Justice and Equity Materials Training and Workforce Development

Event Date: Wed, 03/29/2023 - 1:00 pm - Wed, 03/29/2023 - 2:00 pm
Session Title	Speakers	Areas of Focus
Creating Healthy, Decarbonized Classrooms Many classroom environments are unhealthy and uncomfortable, creating poor learning environments with high absenteeism. Older, unventilated classrooms can be economically decarbonized with improved… Full Description	Ty Newell	Building Systems Business and Finance Health and Comfort Operations and Maintenance
Size and Selection Matter: Using New Data and Tools to Design Effective Heat Pump Systems Think you know effective heat pump sizing and design? Significant market growth of cold-climate air-source heat pumps has resulted in new insights and lessons learned. Come explore new tools and best… Full Description	Dave Lis Mike Ostiguy Christopher Haringa	Building Systems Health and Comfort Policy, Codes, and Standards Training and Workforce Development
Pushing the Glass Envelope: A BERDO 2.0 Compliance Pathway for a High Performance Building This session offers a case study of a curtainwall building in which the project team collaborated on an iterative energy modeling and design process to achieve aggressive energy reduction goals. Our… Full Description	Samira Ahmadi Peter Zmuidzinas Sean Anderson	Building Envelope Building Systems Design and Construction Process Policy, Codes, and Standards
Retrofitting Existing Buildings into Low-Carbon Assets Retrofitting buildings to reduce operating emissions is a key climate strategy. Viable, affordable, and scalable strategies must be implemented. However, we must avoid a surge of embodied carbon… Full Description	Eva Rosenbloom Chris Magwood	Building Envelope Design and Construction Process Materials
Touch a Trade: Inspiring The Next Generation Workforce On October 22, 2022 we held the inaugural Touch A Trade event in Kent, CT. The goal of this event was to introduce pre-teen and teenage children to various trades via hands-on experiences. This first… Full Description	Mason Lord	Business and Finance Design and Construction Process Justice and Equity Training and Workforce Development

Event Date: Wed, 03/29/2023 - 2:30 pm - Wed, 03/29/2023 - 3:30 pm
Session Title	Speakers	Areas of Focus
New England’s Favorite Roof Retrofit: Moisture Data from Three MA Case Studies Dense packing cellulose in roof slopes has been a common insulation retrofit strategy in New England for a long time, however technically it has not been allowed by code without the inclusion of… Full Description	Brendan Kavanagh Kohta Ueno	Building Envelope Materials
The Path to Emergency Electric: Lessons from the Kenzi Passive House buildings go hand-in-hand with on-site generation and electrification, but what happens when you have code-required emergency power backup? The Kenzi tackled the wicked problem of… Full Description	Julie Klump Sara Kudra	Building Systems Design and Construction Process Energy Production and Storage Justice and Equity
Electrification of Domestic Hot Water in Multifamily Buildings Methods for electrification of DHW in multifamily buildings all pose challenges. This session will provide an overview of existing technologies and a brief history of how we arrived at central air-… Full Description	Daniel Perez James Petersen	Building Systems Design and Construction Process
How Will You Meet the Demand? Scaling Passive House Certification for the New Energy Code With the coming updates to building energy codes, there is an anticipation of growth in the volume of Passive House buildings. It is important to have a fully scalable approach to successfully guide… Full Description	Nicholas Hernandez Maciej Konieczny Mark Norton	Design and Construction Process Policy, Codes, and Standards
Green Jobs Training: What Works? What Doesn't? The global implications of climate change require immediate local action, with a major priority being to have a well-trained green workforce to meet the growing labor needs. Local Initiatives Support… Full Description	Jason Taylor Silvana Bastante Suzanne Domestico Kelly Folsom Emily Jones Tedros Hishe	Business and Finance Justice and Equity Policy, Codes, and Standards Training and Workforce Development

Event Date: Wed, 03/29/2023 - 4:00 pm - Wed, 03/29/2023 - 5:00 pm
Session Title	Speakers	Areas of Focus
Saving Energy in Hospitals with Passive House Techniques As the energy and carbon landscape evolves, the design and construction of hospitals must change to meet new challenges. New techniques, perspectives and methodologies must be applied to drive… Full Description	Andrew Kozak Abbott Price	Building Envelope Building Systems Design and Construction Process Health and Comfort
Scaling Up Material Health The impact of building materials on human and environmental health has received increased attention, and hundreds of design firms have pledged to support healthier materials. Ensuring healthier… Full Description	Christine Vöhringer Madaline Hale Christine Vandover Mandy Miller	Design and Construction Process Health and Comfort Materials Training and Workforce Development
A Necessary Evolution: Three Companies Instigate Change via Offsite Construction To achieve mass adoption of offsite construction, the building process as we know it has to be reevaluated from multiple perspectives. This is especially true when combined with the goals of scaling… Full Description	Beth Campbell Ilka Cassidy Edie Dillman	Building Systems Design and Construction Process Justice and Equity Training and Workforce Development
Decarbonizing and Electrifying DHW Using Commercial-Scale CO2 Heat Pumps This session will discuss the advantages and challenges of using CO2 Heat Pumps for decarbonizing and efficiently electrifying commercial Domestic Hot Water systems. The session will outline and… Full Description	Cain White Chris Ouellette Bart Bales	Building Systems Design and Construction Process Energy Production and Storage Operations and Maintenance