NESEA Events
Event Name | Date | Description | |
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BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | Triple Decker Retrofit Providing Affordable Housing in Cambridge, MA | Friday, May 19, 2023 |
This Pro Tour will bring attendees to tour see the results of a gut rehabilitation of a fire-damaged triple-decker in Cambridge, MA, which has been transformed into sustainable, affordable housing. |
BuildingEnergy Pro Tour | Pro Tour of Manhattan Passive House Retrofit | Friday, October 2, 2015 |
On October 2nd, NESEA hosted a Pro Tour of a Passive House retrofit in Manhattan! The project team was striving for Passive House EnerPHit certification, LEED Platinum certification, and committed to healthy “Red List” compliant materials. The tour was be led by Janus Welton, CSBA, LEED AP BD+C EcoArchitecture DesignWorks, PC and other project team members and concluded with a reception and presentation. |
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 | 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 | A Carbon Neutral Campus: Maine’s First Mass Timber Buildings | Friday, August 4, 2023 |
Join NESEA in Maine for a Pro Tour of the first pure mass timber commercial structures in the state: Bowdoin College’s new Barry Mills Hall and the John and Lile Gibbons Center for Arctic Studies. |
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 | 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 | All-Electric, Urban Infill Project in Ithaca, NY | Friday, October 20, 2023 |
Edit: Thank you to our sponsors and attendees for making this event a success. |
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 | Cape Cod Hemp House | Friday, May 20, 2022 |
May's Pro Tour showcased a recently built hemplime-insulated home on Cape Cod. |
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 | "Pretty Good" Net Zero Home and Barn in New Hampshire | Friday, November 17, 2023 |
Join us for a Pro Tour of this recently completed single-family home in southern New Hampshire, built to provide comfortable, net zero living using low VOC materials and finishes. |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 Planning Meeting | BuildingEnergy Boston 2021 Open Planning Meeting | Tuesday, October 20, 2020 |
Share your ideas and vision for NESEA's BuildingEnergy Boston 2021 conference at our Open Planning Meeting on Tuesday, October 20, from 2pm–4pm. |
BuildingEnergy Planning Meeting | Emerging Professionals Career Forum: NYC | Wednesday, October 11, 2017 |
The Emerging Professionals Career Forum is a free, interactive event providing a venue for students and emerging professionals to gain practical strategies for building professional networks, including resources for finding jobs and internships. Attendees will have a chance to hone their networking skills and exchange advice while they meet one another and the NESEA Board of Directors in small discussion groups. |
BuildingEnergy Planning Meeting | BuildingEnergy Boston 2019 Open Planning Meeting | Tuesday, June 5, 2018 |
Share Your Vision for BuildingEnergy Boston 2019! |
BuildingEnergy Planning Meeting | Focus on Real Estate | Thursday, February 19, 2015 to Friday, February 20, 2015 |
PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. |
BuildingEnergy Planning Meeting | BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 Open Planning Meeting | Tuesday, June 27, 2023 |
Share your vision for BuildingEnergy Boston 2024! BuildingEnergy Boston is designed by and for practitioners (like you) in the fields of high-performance building and design, energy efficiency, and renewable energy. Share your vision and help to shape next year's event by attending the Open Planning Meeting on June 27. BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 will take place March 19-20, 2024. |
BuildingEnergy Planning Meeting | CANCELLED (In-Person) BuildingEnergy Boston 2022 Open Planning Meeting | Monday, September 13, 2021 |
UPDATE: The in-person event on Monday, September 13 has been cancelled. |
BuildingEnergy Planning Meeting | BuildingEnergy Boston 2022 Open Planning Meeting | Wednesday, September 15, 2021 |
Share your vision for BuildingEnergy Boston 2022! |
BuildingEnergy Planning Meeting | BuildingEnergy NYC 2022 Open Planning Meeting | Wednesday, March 23, 2022 |
Share your vision for BuildingEnergy NYC 2022! |
BuildingEnergy Planning Meeting | BuildingEnergy Boston 2022 Content Committee Meeting #1 | Wednesday, November 17, 2021 |
The BuildingEnergy Boston 2022 Content Committee will be meeting to discuss conference session proposals and select finalists for more detailed review. |
BuildingEnergy Planning Meeting | BuildingEnergy NYC 2020 Open Planning Meeting | Thursday, January 30, 2020 |
Conference Co-Chairs Andrea Mancino and Sara Bayer invite you to a two-hour Open Planning Meeting for thoughtful conversation with other professionals committed to transforming our built environment. |