BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 - Sessions by Room

Sessions in Marina 1

Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Session Title Time Speakers Areas of Focus
Equitable, Data Driven, Domestic Hot Water Decarbonization

While electrification of domestic hot water is picking up steam, outdated sizing guidelines result in oversized, expensive, and inefficient systems, especially in affordable multifamily housing.... Full Description

10:30 am to 12:00 pm Charlie Simek
Neil Donnelly

Justice and Equity

Design and Construction Process

Building Systems

Energizing Tomorrow: Navigating the Identification and Evaluation Processes for Successful Geothermal Projects

Join us for an enlightening panel session that delves into the pivotal role geothermal can play in commercial and network scale building decarbonization, energy consumption reduction, and climate... Full Description

1:00 pm to 2:00 pm Joshua Soble
Bill Foley
Isabel Varela Gutierrez
Tim Ashmore
Brock Yordy

Design and Construction Process

Building Systems

Operations and Maintenance

Hot Water Electrification: Methods to Reduce First Costs, Embodied Carbon, and Operating Costs

Producing domestic hot water is costly in terms of energy required to physically heat water, and financially when opting to use electricity to do so. Advances in DHW system efficiencies and... Full Description

2:30 pm to 3:30 pm James Petersen
Daniel Perez

Building Systems

Policy, Codes, and Standards

Thermal Resilience as a Retrofit Metric

This session will discuss thermal resilience as a benefit of passive building strategies, and its impact on occupant safety during an outage situation. The session will explore modeling methods to... Full Description

4:00 pm to 5:00 pm Al Mitchell

Building Envelope

Building Systems

Energy Production and Storage

Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Session Title Time Speakers Areas of Focus
The RESNET Carbon Trifecta: HERS Index + CO2 Index + Embodied Carbon

The "trifecta" of RESNET standards concerning operations (HERS Index), the grid (CO2 Index), and embodied carbon together provide the capacity to analyze Carbon Usage Intensity. This session will... Full Description

10:30 am to 12:00 pm Andy Buccino
Nicole Burger
Jacob Deva Racusin

Justice and Equity

Materials

Energy Production and Storage

Policy, Codes, and Standards

Monitored VRF Performance in New Multifamily Buildings

Speakers will review findings from a DOE-sponsored study of VRF performance in three new, multifamily buildings in New York City. Two of the buildings are affordable Passive House properties. The... Full Description

1:00 pm to 2:00 pm Dylan Martello
Shari Rauls

Design and Construction Process

Building Systems

Health and Comfort

Massachusetts Stretch and Specialized Codes

This panel will discuss the Massachusetts Stretch and Specialized Codes, including key provisions such as thermal bridge accounting and mitigation, thermal energy demand intensity (TEDI),... Full Description

2:30 pm to 3:30 pm Paul Ormond
Joanne Bissetta
Christopher Grey
Olivia Brady

Design and Construction Process

Policy, Codes, and Standards

What We Wish Everyone Knew: Using Commissioning Discoveries to Make Buildings Better

Audience participation will be welcome during this interactive session exploring avoidable issues found during commissioning, how they result in brand new systems being installed in ways that... Full Description

4:00 pm to 5:00 pm Nate Goodell
Louis Vogel

Design and Construction Process

Building Systems

Health and Comfort

Operations and Maintenance