NESEA Events
Event Name | Date | Description | |
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BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | Academic Retrofit: Balancing Design & Environmental Impact | Friday, July 20, 2018 |
This Pro Tour featured a wing of a Western-New York high school that has been retrofitted to save energy while better serving the needs of the clients. The event was hosted by Ashley McGraw Architects and covered all aspects of the retrofit, including design, materials selection, envelope, and mechanicals. |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | Net-Zero Living: Two Coastal Connecticut Homes | Friday, August 3, 2018 |
A comparative tour of two single-family new constructions projects. |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | Large-Scale Institutional DER of Historic NYC Building | Friday, June 21, 2019 |
This Pro Tour featured a deep-energy retrofit of a historic New York City Building – the former headquarters of the NYC Board of Transportation which has been re-imagined as New York University’s new space for engineering, applied science, and digital technology. |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | MacLeish Field Station Pro Tour | Friday, October 11, 2013 |
Supported by a grant from the S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation, Smith College completed the construction of a 2300-square-foot environmental classroom at the Ada & Archibald MacLeish Field Station in 2012. At the time of the Pro Tour, CEEDS anticipated that the building would be certified as a “Living Building” in late 2013 or early 2014, a process which was realized in early 2014, making it the fifth Living Building Challenge certified building in the world. |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | Pro Tour of Menck Windows' Manufacturing Facility | Friday, August 21, 2015 |
Join NESEA on a Pro Tour hosted by NESEA member Menck Windows of their recently completed 75,000 square foot advanced production and process technology facility featuring state-of-the-art CNC equipment. |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | Pro Tour of Wayland's First Passive House: Part III | Friday, October 21, 2016 |
At the third and final Pro Tour of the first Passive House in Wayland, more than 75 attendees will got to see the finished product now that systems are up and running. |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | New York State's First CLT Building | Friday, June 16, 2017 |
This Pro Tour will bring attendees to the first complete CLT (cross laminated timber) building in New York State, a 21,00 sq. ft. project that will be the latest addition to the commercial campus of New Energy Works & Pioneer Millworks. |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | Two Multi-Phase, Solar-Powered Apartment Complexes | Friday, August 17, 2018 |
This Pro Tour will feature two, large-scale net zero multifamily projects, giving attendees the opportunity to tour one occupied site and one site that is still under-construction. |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | First Net-Zero School In Massachusetts | Friday, August 23, 2019 |
This NESEA tour featured a new high performance campus in Cambdrige, designed to be the first net zero emissions school in Massachusetts and the largest net zero emissions building in the state. |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | Deep Energy Retrofit in Springfield, MA | Monday, September 16, 2013 |
In 2010, a dilapidated 100-year old brick warehouse sat at the corner Warwick St. in Springfield, MA. |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | DER: Energy Efficiency and Natural Building Materials | Friday, September 21, 2018 |
This NESEA Pro Tour featured a DER of a single-family home that was honored with a Best of the Best Award for 2018 from Efficiency Vermont. |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | Solar Powered State Agency Headquarters | Friday, September 13, 2019 |
This early autumn Pro Tour showcased the new Massachusetts Fish & Wildlife Headquarters, a 45,000 square foot, net-positive LEED Platinum facility. |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | Yestermorrow Pro Tour in Vermont | Friday, August 23, 2013 to Sunday, August 25, 2013 |
NESEA and Yestermorrow Design/Build School partnered up to host an intensive (and intensely awesome) 2.5 day learning experience and high performance buildings tour in Vermont. Led by Andy Shapiro of Energy Balance, Inc, participants were able to interact with some of the region’s leading high performance building practitioners, delving deeply into the details of outstanding projects, asked questions and got feedback on pressing building questions. |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | Second Pro Tour of the First Certified Passive House in Wayland, MA | Friday, November 6, 2015 |
Due to the overwhelming enthusiasm for the August Pro Tour of this site, NESEA was thrilled to be able to offer a second Pro Tour of the first Passive House in Wayland! The tour of this 2,500 square foot home was led by hosts Mike Dutra and Nicholas Falkoff from Auburndale Builders, Michael Hindle, CPHC, and Donald Grose, the project designer. |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | Net-Positive Living in a Multi-family Urban Setting | Friday, May 5, 2017 |
This Pro Tour took attendees to the Highland Street Homes Project, two energy-efficient duplex homes designed to look like a traditional Georgian Colonial and its companion carriage house. The featured homes are part of Boston’s E+ Green Building Program, which is promoting regenerative multi-unit residential buildings and bringing energy and environmentally positive homes to the city. |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | ZNE Living in Mid-Coast Maine | Friday, November 9, 2018 |
This NESEA Pro Tour featured a single-family, net-zero energy home designed to meet ambitious performance metrics in a cold, coastal climate. The hosting team from Benjamin & Company shared the building and design strategies that made this project a reality. |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | ZNE Modular + Passive New Construction + DER | Friday, September 20, 2019 |
This September event included two projects: a newly constructed net-zero modular small house, designed to address housing needs in the wake of extreme weather events, and a 3 unit multi-family, originally built in 1870, which has recently been expanded and retrofitted to PHIUS standards. |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | Bensonwood Pro Tour | Friday, December 5, 2014 |
On a crisp, sunny day in December, NESEA took a Pro Tour of two sites, one in Putney, VT and one in Walpole, NH. In Putney we got a tour of a home that feature accelerated site construction of a high performance shell, and in Walpole we toured the Bensonwood shop and discussed the virtual carpentry and fabrication process. |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | Pro Tour of the First Certified Passive House in Wayland, MA | Friday, August 7, 2015 |
Over 70 people joined NESEA on this Pro Tour of the first Passive House in Wayland! The tour of this 2,500 square foot home was led by hosts Mike Dutra and Nicholas Falkoff from Auburndale Builders, Michael Hindle, CPHC, and Donald Grose, the project designer. The tour concluded with a reception, and a presentation entitled "Going Foam-Free in Passive Construction." CEUs: 2.5 AIA LU/HSW, 2.5 GBCI, and certificates of participation were available Member registration: $25 | Non-member registration: $35 |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | Virtual Pro Tour: Passive House Retrofit | Thursday, June 18, 2020 |
NESEA's first virtual Pro Tour, featured an award-winning Passive House retrofit of a three family building in the Hudson Valley. During this interactive event, participants learned about the goals of the project and heard directly from the professionals who made it a reality. Just like an in-person Pro Tour, this event mixed presentation with small group conversation, giving participants the chance to meet project team members and one another. |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | Passive House Certified, Affordable Multifamily in the Bronx | Friday, December 15, 2023 |
Join NESEA for this September Pro Tour of a Phius-certified passive midrise bringing 53 units of affordable housing to the Fordham neighborhood of the Bronx. During this tour, led by our hosts from Curtis + Ginsberg Architects, our attendees will learn about the design strategies and innovative energy-efficiency and sustainability measures that made this project possible. |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | Virtual Pro Tour: Campus Built for Living Building Challenge Certification | Friday, January 29, 2021 |
NESEA's first virtual Pro Tour of 2021, hosted by Kaplan Thompson Architects, featured a recently completed non-profit campus built for Living Building Challenge certification. The project team shared the key strategies used in pursuit of the certification, including material selection, mechanical systems, and the design and construction approach. |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | LEED Platinum Urban Community Development | Friday, December 7, 2018 |
The final Pro Tour of 2018 featured the first stage of a planned 331-unit project in East Boston, designed for LEED Platinum certification. |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | 12 Building PHIUS Village in the Finger Lakes | Friday, October 25, 2019 |
This Pro Tour featured an ambitious new development: a first-of-it's-kind, PHIUS certified affordable housing project featuring 96 units across 12 buildings. |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | Noble Home Pro Tour | Friday, February 6, 2015 |
Over thirty people braved a chilly yet sunny afternoon to attend the Noble Home Pro Tour. We visited two sites constructed by Noble Home - maker of high-quality, custom-built passive solar kit homes - in Colrain and Shelburne, MA. In Colrain we toured a demonstration kit home that promotes sustainability through an affordable, super-insulated shell, and in Shelburne we visited a passive solar expansion of a family home designed for hands-on homeowners. |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | Pro Tour of a Passive House School and Net Zero Home in Falmouth, ME | Friday, December 4, 2015 |
On December 4th, NESEA hosted a BuildingEnergy Pro Tour in Falmouth, ME of a modular, net zero home and the nation's third Passive House-certified school! |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | Large Scale, State-Owned CLT Building in Massachusetts | Friday, December 8, 2023 |
Join NESEA for our final Pro Tour of 2023, featuring Massachusetts’s first publicly funded, large scale state-owned CLT building. |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | Vermont's First Multifamily Passive House | Friday, July 21, 2017 |
This Pro Tour will feature Elm Place, a recently-constructed, 30-unit building which is poised to become the first multi-family Passive House structure in Vermont. |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | All-Electric, Affordable Passive House Development in Boston | Friday, April 26, 2024 |
Join NESEA for the first Pro Tour of 2024, a new construction passive house project that will bring 50 units of affordable senior housing to the community of Roxbury, Massachusetts. |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | ZNE Development on the VT/NH Border | Friday, November 8, 2019 |
NESEA's November 2019 Pro Tour was of an affordable community housing community built for PHIUS certification. This community was built to meet the needs of a non-profit housing developer wanting durable, healthy, and attractive housing on a limited budget. |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | Pro Tour: Affordable Passive Multifamily in Maine | Friday, April 15, 2016 |
This Pro Tour will featured one of the largest Passive housing projects in the United States, that also manages to meet the aggressive affordable housing cost cap set forward by the Maine State Housing Authority. |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | Passive House Coastal Campus Pro Tour | Friday, August 5, 2022 |
This Pro Tour explored the Schiller Coastal Studies Center, a scientific village that is the new home for Bowdoin’s Marine Science program. |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | Virtual Pro Tour: Southern Vermont Passive House | Friday, October 2, 2020 |
NESEA kicked off the fall 2020 Pro Tour series with this interactive event, hosted by studioWEBSTER. It featured a newly constructed Passive House located in southern Vermont. Participants met the project team who made the house a reality. |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | Net Zero Energy & Net Zero Water Elementary School in Massachusetts | Friday, April 21, 2023 |
Join NESEA as we kick off the 2023 Pro Tour series at the first net zero energy and net zero water elementary school in Massachusetts. |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | Multi-Family Housing: Under Construction Through Final Product | Friday, November 15, 2019 |
This Pro Tour gave attendees the unique opportunity to see similar projects in very different stages of development in the same event. |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | Martha's Vineyard Pro Tour | Friday, April 3, 2015 |
On a warm (ish) day in April, NESEA organized a Pro Tour of two sites designed and built by South Mountain Company and Island Housing Trust, located on Martha's Vineyard MA. The tour showcased healthy, durable, comfortable homes that offer valuable lessons for building high-performance and affordable structures in the 21st century. The tour will concluded with an educational workshop with Matt Coffey, John Abrams and Marc Rosenbaum of South Mountain Company, and Philippe Jordi of Island Housing Trust. |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | Pro Tour: 2 Geeks, 2 Houses on Martha's Vineyard | Friday, April 1, 2016 |
On April 1, NESEA kicked off the 2016 Pro Tour Series with an event on Martha's Vineyard. After braving the rain to arrive in Vineyard Haven, attendees spent the afternoon touring two recently completed high-performance houses. The first house was a completely new structure, purpose-built to incorporate high performing energy systems and materials. The second house was a deep energy retrofit, where an existing house was reworked to become a net zero home. Attendees heard about the different approaches to these projects, which required different strategies to achieve the same energy goals... Full Description |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | Virtual Pro Tour: North America's Largest Affordable Passive House | Friday, November 6, 2020 |
This virtual Pro Tour offered participants a behind-the-scenes look at one of the most ambitious PHIUS+ projects in New York City: an innovative fifteen-story building providing 154-units of sustainable housing. NESEA worked with hosting firm and Passive House consultant and verifier Bright Power to offer this follow-up event to 2019's sold out tour of this site. |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | Portland's First PHIUS+ Affordable Multifamily Housing | Friday, April 7, 2017 |
On April 7, 2017 NESEA held a tour of Bayside Anchor, a recently-completed 45 unit apartment building in downtown Portland, ME. The building is a joint venture of the Portland Housing Authority and Avesta Housing, designed by Kaplan Thompson Architects and built by Wright-Ryan Construction. The project originated as the winning entry in “Lowering the Cost of Housing,” a 2013 national competition organized by Deutsche Bank. |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | Affordable Senior Living in a Mid-Rise Passive House | Friday, October 20, 2017 |
This Pro Tour will feature Corona Senior Residence, an 8-story building which is poised to become the first senior housing development in New York built to Passive House International Standards. |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | NZE Living in the Hudson Valley | Friday, December 6, 2019 |
NESEA's tour of a two-family, NZE residential project located within walking distance to the Cold Spring Metro-North stop! |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | Pro Tour: Two Living Building Challenge Centers | Friday, August 5, 2016 |
With construction on these two buildings recently completed, the August 2016 ProTour was a chance for participants to see the finished products, after occupation and with systems up and running. The tour included a walk-through of both sites, as well an overview of the LBC certification process, and a Q & A with members of the team that made these projects a reality. Because there are currently only eight certified LBC projects in the world, this tour provided a rare opportunity to hear from people working to the meet the LBC criteria. |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | LEED Platinum, Resilient Elementary School in Central New York | Friday, August 4, 2017 |
NESEA returns to central New York for a Pro Tour of the LEED Platinum (pending) MacArthur Elementary School. This new construction, high performance school is the result of a collaborative, stake-holder driven design process led by Ashley McGraw Architects. Pro Tour attendees will learn about the history of the building and the efficiency and resiliency strategies that were integrated into the project. |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | The Largest Market-Rate Net Zero Complex in the US | Friday, June 16, 2023 |
Join NESEA as we tour Solara Phase 3, a low embodied carbon, market-rate, net zero multifamily complex in Rotterdam, NY. The complex, including the first two phases, will be the largest market-rate net zero complex in the US upon completion. |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | Environmental Education Center Built for LBC Zero Energy Certification | Friday, September 14, 2018 |
This Pro Tour featured the Massachusetts Audubon Society’s new net zero environmental learning center. During this event, attendees learned how the team at Maclay Architects approached balancing the energy and conservation goals of this project while designing a space that best supports the needs of the occupants. |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | Island Revival: A High Performance Home on an Island in Maine | Friday, May 3, 2024 |
Join NESEA for this spring Pro Tour of an under-construction single family home on Peaks Island, just a short ferry ride from Portland, ME. |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | 2019 Pro Tour Launch Party | Thursday, March 21, 2019 |
NESEA officially unveiled the schedule for the 2019 Pro Tour series at our second annual Pro Tour Launch Party. Guests joined us for an evening of networking, appetizers, and drinks as we showed off our great lineup for 2019. |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | Placetailor Pro Tour | Friday, March 20, 2015 |
Join NESEA for a Boston-area Pro Tour hosted by Placetailor. This Pro Tour will showcase two different projects, including the Hawthorne Youth Community Center and the Lamartine Lofts, located on the cusp of Jamaica Plain and Roxbury, MA. Placetailor tour guides will talk about high performance structures, community engagement and education, and the realities of working in tight urban spaces. |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | Passive House Retrofit of a Brooklyn Heights Carriage House | Friday, March 25, 2022 |
NESEA's first Pro Tour of 2022, the in-person event showcased a Passive House retrofit of an 1800s Brooklyn Heights carriage house. |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | Pro Tour: ZNE Home in Central NY | Friday, June 17, 2016 |
Our June 17 Pro Tour in Pulaski, NY featured one of the first net zero homes in Central/Western NY. This isn’t your typical net zero design – traditional stick building elements were combined with the age-old craft of timber framing to form the bones of the project. Natural lighting, on-site PV array, and a design allowing winter passive solar heat gain and summer shade are just the tip of the iceberg. |