This community has spent decades laying the groundwork for net-zero-energy buildings. Now we stand at an exciting turning point, as the... Full Description
BuildingEnergy Boston 2023 Conference Events
Tuesday
Tuesday, March 28, 2023 - 9:00am
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Community Event
Location: Harbor 1-3
Presenters: Jacob Knowles
Tuesday, March 28, 2023 - 10:30am
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Session
Operational carbon is challenging but attacking embodied carbon is a complete nightmare! How can firms streamline the deadly research drain and... Full Description
Location: Harbor 2
Speakers: Barbra BatShalom ✵ Annie Bevan
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VEIC’s work on Zero Energy Modular (ZEM) homes has helped hundreds of low and moderate income families achieve dignified, resilient, low-carbon... Full Description
Location: Marina 1
Speakers: Peter Schneider
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Electrification of HVAC systems and the elimination of fossil fuel heating in high rise building space conditioning systems poses unique design... Full Description
Location: Harbor 3
Speakers: David Glickman ✵ Jacob Knowles ✵ Ari Greenberg
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Public school projects are a highly visible commitment from a community towards future generations, serve a wide range of students from diverse... Full Description
Location: Harbor 1
Speakers: Suni Dillard ✵ Alexandra Gadawski ✵ Caitlin Osepchuk
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Expanding our workforce by meaningful inclusion and retention of people from marginalized groups will be critical to scale our work. We have all... Full Description
Location: Marina 3-4
Speakers: Fatou Njie-Jallow
Tuesday, March 28, 2023 - 12:00pm
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Community Event
Invitation only. This annual networking lunch brings together recipients of NESEA's BE the Future scholarship and supporters of the program.... Full Description
Location: Carlton
Tuesday, March 28, 2023 - 1:00pm
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Concrete accounts for approximately 11% of annual global carbon emissions. It is a material too important to ignore. Learn how BU’s Center for... Full Description
Location: Harbor 1
Speakers: Rachelle Ain ✵ Michael Gryniuk ✵ Olivia Humphrey
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We will present tales from the trenches for ventilation approaches within the context of the Passive House building certification standard. This... Full Description
Location: Marina 1
Speakers: Luis Aragon ✵ Michael Schmidt
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Bruce Becker is the architect, developer, owner, and operator of Hotel Marcel. He will discuss the conversion of the formerly vacant Pirelli... Full Description
Location: Harbor 3
Speakers: Bruce Becker
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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... Full Description
Location: Harbor 2
Speakers: Ashley Muspratt ✵ Jon Blair
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The vast majority of construction defect litigation is over failures of water management. As we construct lower and lower energy buildings, we’re... Full Description
Location: Marina 3-4
Speakers: Ben Bogie
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Sponsored Session
Sponsored by the German Consulate (Boston) and the German American Chamber of Commerce (New York). This session will feature a select group of... Full Description
Location: Marina 2
Tuesday, March 28, 2023 - 2:30pm
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Electrifying the manufacturing process of building materials is a critical step towards decarbonizing the built environment. Going where no... Full Description
Location: Marina 3-4
Speakers: Rob Conboy ✵ Jason Todd
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Recent technology developments and incentive programs are creating new opportunities for ground-source heat pumps (GSHPs) at the building and... Full Description
Location: Marina 1
Speakers: Dave Hermantin ✵ Lauren Hildebrand ✵ Audrey Schulman
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While the 2021 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) is already being used by some states, wider adoption is anticipated with the... Full Description
Location: Harbor 2
Speakers: Giulia Luci ✵ Maggie McCarey
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Before PVs became affordable, excess solar energy was stored thermally. Energy storage, both thermal and electrical, aids grid penetration of... Full Description
Location: Harbor 1
Speakers: Marc Rosenbaum
Tuesday, March 28, 2023 - 4:00pm
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The Massachusetts Maritime Academy consists of 16 buildings comprising approximately 600,000 sf, with heating for the buildings is provided by gas... Full Description
Location: Harbor 3
Speakers: David Madigan ✵ Betsy Isenstein ✵ Tamar Warburg
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Curtis + Ginsberg Architects has completed 6 multifamily Passive House buildings, with two more in construction and six more in design. Steven... Full Description
Location: Harbor 2
Speakers: Mark Ginsberg ✵ Lois Arena
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Have you heard about the building standard that's not a standard? Learn how to create energy efficient, healthy, sustainable homes with an... Full Description
Location: Harbor 1
Speakers: Emily Mottram ✵ Dan Kolbert
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While recent state legislation across the region has codified ambitious greenhouse gas emission reduction targets in statute, these bills have had... Full Description
Location: Marina 1
Speakers: Steve Skodak ✵ Eben Perkins
Tuesday, March 28, 2023 - 5:00pm
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Community Event
All conference attendees are invited to mingle on the trade show floor during this reception that includes a cash bar and light snacks. Celebrate... Full Description
Location: Trade Show Floor
Wednesday
Wednesday, March 29, 2023 - 8:00am
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Community Event
Invitation Only. This annual event provides NESEA Lifetime Members with a dedicated space to relax, network, and enjoy breakfast before a busy day... Full Description
Location: Carlton
Wednesday, March 29, 2023 - 9:00am
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Community Event
After completing many Deep Energy Retrofit projects (DERs) in the late 2000s early 2010s here in Massachusetts, our residential design-build... Full Description
Location: Harbor 1-3
Presenters: Rachel White ✵ Brendan Kavanagh
Wednesday, March 29, 2023 - 10:30am
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Join principals of New Frameworks and Builders for Climate Action for a critical look at our practices that have endeavored to embed justice and... Full Description
Location: Marina 3-4
Speakers: Chris Magwood ✵ Ace McArleton ✵ Jacob Racusin
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Research has shown that solar adoption in a neighborhood spurs more solar adoption. Conversely, if clean energy adoption is not seeded in other... Full Description
Location: Marina 1
Speakers: Meredith Geraghty ✵ Grace Umaña ✵ Lisa Dobbs
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With rising determination to fight the climate crisis worldwide, practitioners are finding the Passive House standard a potent solution for the... Full Description
Location: Harbor 3
Speakers: Christina Aßmann ✵ Ilka Cassidy ✵ Sangeetha Sambandam
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Windows are a key part of the building enclosure, but they are also the costliest, most fragile, and worst thermally performing component. We will... Full Description
Location: Harbor 1
Speakers: Kohta Ueno ✵ Peter Baker
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Typical university dormitory projects are capital intensive and take several years to complete. This project turned this practice on its head.... Full Description
Location: Harbor 2
Speakers: Jesse Thompson ✵ Emily Greene ✵ Christina Consigli ✵ Sasha Azel
Wednesday, March 29, 2023 - 12:00pm
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Community Event
A group of students and staff from multiple Boston-area schools will be using this space to debrief their morning on the tradeshow floor. The... Full Description
Location: Burroughs
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Community Event
We are thrilled to announce the 4th annual BuildingEnergy Boston Diversity Caucus.
Calling all people of color, indigenous people, queer,... Full Description
Location: Marina 2-3
Presenters: Mel Baiser ✵ Miriam Gee ✵ Ace McArleton ✵ Maria Washington
Wednesday, March 29, 2023 - 1:00pm
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This session offers a case study of a curtainwall building in which the project team collaborated on an iterative energy modeling and design... Full Description
Location: Harbor 3
Speakers: Samira Ahmadi ✵ Peter Zmuidzinas
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Think you know effective heat pump sizing and design? Significant market growth of cold-climate air-source heat pumps has resulted in new insights... Full Description
Location: Harbor 2
Speakers: Dave Lis ✵ Mike Ostiguy ✵ Christopher Haringa
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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... Full Description
Location: Marina 3-4
Speakers: Mason Lord Jr.
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Retrofitting buildings to reduce operating emissions is a key climate strategy. Viable, affordable, and scalable strategies must be implemented.... Full Description
Location: Marina 1
Speakers: Eva Rosenbloom ✵ Chris Magwood
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Many classroom environments are unhealthy and uncomfortable, creating poor learning environments with high absenteeism. Older, unventilated... Full Description
Location: Harbor 1
Speakers: Ty Newell
Wednesday, March 29, 2023 - 2:30pm
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The global implications of climate change require immediate local action, with a major priority being to have a well-trained green workforce to... Full Description
Location: Marina 3-4
Speakers: Jason Taylor ✵ Silvana Bastante ✵ Suzanne Domestico ✵ Kelly Folsom ✵ Emily Jones ✵ Tedros Hishe
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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... Full Description
Location: Marina 1
Speakers: Nicholas Hernandez ✵ Maciej Konieczny ✵ Mark Norton
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Methods for electrification of DHW in multifamily buildings all pose challenges. This session will provide an overview of existing technologies... Full Description
Location: Harbor 3
Speakers: Daniel Perez ✵ James Petersen
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Dense packing cellulose in roof slopes has been a common insulation retrofit strategy in New England for a long time, however technically it has... Full Description
Location: Harbor 1
Speakers: Brendan Kavanagh ✵ Kohta Ueno
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Passive House buildings go hand-in-hand with on-site generation and electrification, but what happens when you have code-required emergency power... Full Description
Location: Harbor 2
Speakers: Julie Klump ✵ Sara Kudra
Wednesday, March 29, 2023 - 4:00pm
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To achieve mass adoption of offsite construction, the building process as we know it has to be reevaluated from multiple perspectives. This is... Full Description
Location: Harbor 3
Speakers: Beth Campbell ✵ Ilka Cassidy ✵ Edie Dillman
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The impact of building materials on human and environmental health has received increased attention, and hundreds of design firms have pledged to... Full Description
Location: Harbor 2
Speakers: Christine Vöhringer ✵ Madaline Hale ✵ Christine Vandover ✵ Mandy Miller
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This session will discuss the advantages and challenges of using CO2 Heat Pumps for decarbonizing and efficiently electrifying commercial Domestic... Full Description
Location: Marina 1
Speakers: Cain White ✵ Christopher Ouellette ✵ Bart Bales
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As the energy and carbon landscape evolves, the design and construction of hospitals must change to meet new challenges. New techniques,... Full Description
Location: Harbor 1
Speakers: Andrew Kozak ✵ Abbott Price
Wednesday, March 29, 2023 - 5:00pm
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Community Event
Join us for the conference's closing reception, celebrating the close of two days of connecting around the conference’s theme of Scalable... Full Description
Location: Harbor Foyer
