BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 - Sessions by Room
Sessions in Marina 1
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Building Momentum: Lessons from the Field of Decarbonization Retrofits in Boston Boston is becoming a hotbed of innovation for equitable approaches to retrofitting existing buildings with a focus on affordable housing. This panel will highlight the hard-earned lessons from... Full Description |
10:30 am to 12:00 pm | ||
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Roadmap to Scaling: Best Practices from CO2 Heat Pump Water Heater System Pilots The complexities of effectively implementing and operating system-level innovations makes pilots prone to failure, impeding their scalability. To increase the likelihood of pilot success, we... Full Description |
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm | Charlie Simek | |
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Scaling Mass Timber Construction in Dense Urban Environments: Three Not-So-Little Projects Using mass timber construction instead of concrete and steel can greatly reduce the embodied carbon of new construction, but faces specific challenges in dense urban environments in addition to... Full Description |
2:30 pm to 3:30 pm |
Floris Keverling Buisman Brent Buck Andrew Ruff |
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Blighted Site to Thriving Community: High-Performance Buildings for a Healthy Neighborhood An abandoned industrial site in Lawrence, MA is now home to 80 low-income families, living in Phius certified apartments near a riverway, public transportation, and shared recreational resources.... Full Description |
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm |
Bill Boehm Spencer Buchholz Paul Eddowes Corey Heaslip Chris Thompson |
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Working Smarter Not Harder: The Power of Teamwork in Multifamily PH Projects With Passive House (PH) certification becoming typical, or code-required, throughout the Northeast, ensuring smart and efficient project team collaboration is critical to success. This session... Full Description |
10:30 am to 12:00 pm |
Michelle Apigian Moses Cordeiro James Peterson Zoe Weinrobe Ashley Wisse |
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Historic Buildings, Modern Solutions: Decarbonization Strategies for Multifamily Landmarks This session explores the decarbonization strategies of two landmark build-ings. Harlem River Houses, a public housing preservation project with lowrise walk-ups, is decentralizing its heating... Full Description |
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm |
Ryan Esparza Dylan Martello Crystal Ng |
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Open Source: Sharing Climate Knowledge for Speed, Scale and Inclusion This year’s conference challenges us to think about how to build the movement by reaching beyond our traditional networks and silos. We have no time to spare to implement some of the biggest... Full Description |
2:30 pm to 3:30 pm |
Sara Kudra Curt Newton |
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Scaling Embodied Carbon Through Building Codes This presentation will provide an overview of strategies to introduce and enhance embodied carbon provisions in major model codes and standards. The presentation will look at code adoption at the... Full Description |
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm |
Ariel Brenner Michael Waite |
