BuildingEnergy Boston 2022 - Sessions by Room
Sessions in Harbor 1-2
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Monday Keynote - Making Ourselves Heard: The Building Sector as Leaders in Carbon Neutrality As the nation strives for carbon neutrality by 2050, the role of the building sector is both critical and often overlooked. As clients, manufacturers, designers, engineers, constructors and... Full Description |
9:00 am to 10:00 am | Vivian Loftness |
Justice and Equity Design Process Policies, Codes, and Standards Climate Change and Resilience |
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At the Finish Line: How Two Affordable Passive Projects Crossed the Hardest Hurdles Multifamily Passive House new construction can be built today for low incremental cost and dramatic energy reduction. Join us for a review of eight affordable passive house projects, demonstrating... Full Description |
10:30 am to 12:00 pm |
Michelle Apigian Thomas Chase Chris Becker Maciej Konieczny |
Design Process Construction Process Building Envelope Policies, Codes, and Standards |
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Design with a Carbon Conscience: Estimating Embodied Carbon at the Planning Level Transform your practice by taking responsibility for the carbon footprint of your work. This session reviews existing tools and frameworks, from planning scale to site and garden design,... Full Description |
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm |
Tamar Warburg Michael Frechette Shuai Hao |
Design Process Materials Climate Change and Resilience |
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Local Mass Timber: A Paradox Bowdoin College is currently constructing a pair of connected campus buildings, both with mass timber structures. Located in the Pine Tree State, the project is ironically using timber sourced... Full Description |
2:30 pm to 3:30 pm |
Matthew Tonello Marcell Graeff |
Design Process Construction Process Materials Climate Change and Resilience |
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Your Building as Workforce Training: Integrating Students into High Performance Projects The Lloyd Center for the Environment is an environmental education building on a coastal nature preserve. This building is pursuing the most stringent environmental certification – LBC – and it is... Full Description |
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm |
Kathryn Duff Liz Moniz Warley Williams |
Justice and Equity Design Process Construction Process Climate Change and Resilience |
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Tuesday Keynote - A Framework for Action: What's Our Role? Global change requires local action! While the climate crisis has been well articulated at the global level by the United Nations, national governments, and scientific consensus, climate solutions... Full Description |
9:00 am to 10:00 am | Crystal Chissell |
Justice and Equity Policies, Codes, and Standards Climate Change and Resilience |
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Take Charge and Electrify That Building! Most of our existing buildings are already constructed with fossil fuels as the heat source. In this session, BEC will demonstrate the successes of retrofitting high performance electrification,... Full Description |
10:30 am to 12:00 pm |
Wesley Stanhope Ken Neuhauser James Moriarty Brendan Mangino |
Mechanical Systems and Lighting |
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The Climate Impact of Retrofits: Embodied and Operational Emissions in Weatherization As buildings become part of the climate change solution, more building professionals and their customers want to know how they can reduce carbon emissions in home retrofits. The presenters... Full Description |
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm |
Jacob Deva Racusin Megan Nedzinski |
Construction Process Building Envelope Materials Climate Change and Resilience |
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Design for Freedom: Eliminating Modern Slavery in the Building Material Supply Chain The Design for Freedom Initiative is raising awareness about the pervasiveness of forced and child labor in the construction supply chain. The materials that go into our buildings are heavily... Full Description |
2:30 pm to 3:30 pm |
Nora Rizzo Jared Gilbert |
Justice and Equity Design Process Materials Policies, Codes, and Standards |
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Care & Feeding of Brick: Interior Insulation Retrofits of Mass Masonry Buildings Solid mass masonry buildings are a significant fraction of the existing building stock, and many contribute to the historic fabric of neighborhoods. However, with wall R-values of R-3 to R-5, they... Full Description |
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Kohta Ueno |
Building Envelope |