BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 - Sessions by Room

Sessions in Harbor 2

Thursday, March 20, 2025
Session Title Time Speakers Areas of Focus
Modular Multifamily Passive House: Design, Build, and Verify

LaMora Senior Living in Westchester, NY is the first completely modular Phius certified multifamily building in the world. This session presents the challenges faced relative to enclosure design,... Full Description

10:30 am to 12:00 pm Stuart Lachs
Tony Lisanti
John Loercher
Beyond the Building: Climate Justice and the Solidarity Economy

Explore how place-based strategies rooted in solidarity and economic justice can foster equity and build resilience beyond the buildings we build and companies we run. We'll talk about the the... Full Description

1:00 pm to 2:00 pm Declan Keefe
In the Last Analysis: An Electrified Town Garage for the 21st Century

Details matter in this analysis of a challenging building type, a 9000sf Vermont town garage. First principles were applied to assess HVAC cases: two heat-pump types, two combustion fuels, with... Full Description

2:30 pm to 3:30 pm Andy Shapiro
Exterior Wall Insulation: Don’t Eat Your Sweater!

Modern energy codes and requirements for high performance result in implementation of continuous exterior wall insulation. The speakers will explain the fundamental benefits of exterior insulation... Full Description

4:00 pm to 5:00 pm Peter Baker
Kohta Ueno
Friday, March 21, 2025
Session Title Time Speakers Areas of Focus
Change Agents: This Is What Community Looks Like

A panel discussion with leaders of advocacy communities who embody the UN-Bruntland definition of sustainability: “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future... Full Description

10:30 am to 12:00 pm Jerren Chang
Meredith Elbaum
Michael Gryniuk
Rand Lemley
Jim Newman
Grid-Interactive Solutions for Sustainable Electrification

As large-scale electrification and decarbonization accelerate, it's critical to mitigate the impacts of increased demand to the grid. This session will explore the role of grid-interactivity... Full Description

1:00 pm to 2:00 pm Joseph Bliss
Charles Lovejoy
Joseph Redmond
Ellen Richer
Christopher Till
Moving the Needle on ADU Policy and Production

ADUs can help us take advantage of existing infrastructure and developed land in order to build bigger, faster momentum in increasing availability of resilient housing stock. Join us as we explore... Full Description

2:30 pm to 3:30 pm Parlin Meyer
Three Routes to Work: Recruiting, Retaining and Upskilling Our Workforce

Is there a one size fits all workforce development strategy for the built environment? NO! We will present three distinct approaches to workforce development that represent different needs and... Full Description

4:00 pm to 5:00 pm Chase Macpherson
Brendan Ryan
Andy Winslow