BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 - Sessions by Room
Sessions in Harbor 2
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Learn to Create Your Own Manual J Energy Model When used early in the design process, energy modeling is a powerful tool for decision making, not only for sizing equipment but also for shaping buildings and selecting materials. Iterative... Full Description |
10:30 am to 12:00 pm | Gwendolen St.Sauveur |
Design and Construction Process Building Envelope Building Systems Training and Workforce Development |
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Beyond Anthropocentrism: Practical Design for Resilient Building Enclosures As part of a whole-building design approach, building enclosure is a key lever in reducing operational carbon emissions. With early phase detailing, precise thermal modeling can be performed to... Full Description |
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm |
Andrew Steingiser Shu Talun |
Design and Construction Process Building Envelope Materials Health and Comfort |
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Pretty Good Reno: The Greenest House Is an Existing House An existing house represents an enormous amount of “up front” carbon that has already been committed. The more we can re-use it, the less carbon we are releasing per unit of housing. But when is... Full Description |
2:30 pm to 3:30 pm |
Emily Mottram Dan Kolbert Chris Briley |
Design and Construction Process Building Envelope Building Systems Materials |
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Heating with Ice for Cost Effective Electrification, Resilience and Optimization Building electrification using air-source heat pumps (ASHPs) is costly and requires a significant amount of space. Ice heating has the potential to reduce the capacity of ASHPs needed for full... Full Description |
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm |
Travis Anderson Laura Corso Joelle Jahn |
Design and Construction Process Building Systems Energy Production and Storage Policy, Codes, and Standards |
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Inside and Out: Insulating Our Existing Masonry Buildings In the Northeast, we have a large stock of uninsulated masonry buildings. Leaving these buildings as-is is not compatible with efforts to reduce carbon emissions and will not address climate... Full Description |
10:30 am to 12:00 pm |
Mark Ginsberg Cheryl Saldanha Floris Keverling Buisman |
Design and Construction Process Building Envelope Materials |
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How Building Professionals Can Harness Geothermal Energy for New Climate-Resilient Housing at Scale Space conditioning accounts for more than 40% of home energy consumption. Geothermal heat pumps are the most efficient way to heat and cool a building, making them the most impactful way to reduce... Full Description |
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm | Ryan Carda |
Design and Construction Process Building Systems Health and Comfort Operations and Maintenance |
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Quality and Quantity: Strategies for Accelerating Single Family Passive Houses This session will present three case studies showing various aspects of the rapid development of single-family passive buildings. Each uniquely addresses the ability to a) expedite the process of... Full Description |
2:30 pm to 3:30 pm |
John Loercher Andy Allwine Matthew Bowers |
Design and Construction Process Policy, Codes, and Standards Business and Finance |
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They're Making Me Do What? BERDO 2.0 from the Building Owner Perspective Building performance standards are no longer a theory. Programs that have been in development for years are now being implemented and building owners are being asked to improve the performance of... Full Description |
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm |
Andy Winslow Aidan Callan Stephen Ellis Neetu Siddarth |
Justice and Equity Policy, Codes, and Standards Operations and Maintenance |
