Past Pro Tours

Join us for a tour of a 73,000 GSF, 3-story building featuring 68 units of affordable senior housing, including 66 one-bedroom apartments and 2 two-bedroom apartments. This building was designed with high-performance building materials and systems to maximize energy efficiency and sustainability.

Join NESEA for a special event, that will combine a Pro Tour of Franklin Cummings Tech's new all-electric, 68,000 square foot building and a networking event to meet the businesses in our BuildingEnergy Access program.

Originally built in 1888 as two-story duplex apartments, and renovated in 2003, these untis are being redesigned and updated to achieve Passive House certification through a comprehensive Deep Energy Retrofit (DER) of the buildings' exterior envelopes. This project is intended to serve as a demo, showing the benefits of passive house guided retrofits that can be done with minimal resident disruption.

In autumn 2023, in just two weeks, Paul A. Castrucci Architects shipped and assembled 47 modular units from Leola, PA, to East Flatbush, Brooklyn. The result? A four-story residential complex with affordable, Passive House design. This innovative project aims to reduce energy use and embodied carbon, while embracing circular building design. This building is the first modular Passive House building in NYC.

NESEA heads to Connecticut to offer a tour of a renovated and expanded 1940s elementary school that has been transformed into a modern, net-zero facility, complete with a 66 well geothermal HVAC system, to serve 400 students.

Join us for a Pro Tour of a high performance, 55,000 square foot building on the Dartmouth College campus that combined a major addition with targeted renovation to house the newly created Irving Institute for Energy and Society.

On June 13, NESEA will be organizing a tour of a new single family home, still under construction and being built to Passive House standards. Attendees at this early summer event will learn the story of this project, nestled away in Bethany, CT. The event hosts hope to showcase this residence, which will be net zero ready, as an example of a high-performance residence with minimal environmental impact.

Join NESEA for the first Pro Tour of 2025! We are thrilled to kick off the 2025 series with this May event, showcasing a formerly vacant commercial building that has been transformed into an all-electric, net zero co-warehousing facility.

Join NESEA for the final Pro Tour of 2024: a passive house-certified, 185,000 square-foot building, providing 160 units of much-needed affordable housing to the neighborhood of Brownsville, Brooklyn.

You’re invited to a 2-site Pro Tour in Burlington, Vermont! Our hosts, New Frameworks, will be opening both their shop and a project so that attendees can see how their innovative, low-carbon modular projects come together, from factory floor to completed build.

In early November, NESEA will be offering our first Pro Tour in the Catskills, showcasing a new construction single-family passive house with its first years’ of performance data.

Join us for a Pro Tour of a recently renovated historic building in New Haven, CT! During this event, attendees will learn how the project team transformed this building, originally a hotel from 1816, into a Passive House-certified commercial space while preserving its historic facade and place in the community.

Join us for a summer Pro Tour of an integrated, mixed-use, phased development project encompassing nearly a full city block in Brooklyn, NY. We will be touring two completed buildings, which are now dedicated to affordable and supportive housing. This four-building project provides an example of phased construction using common-sense sustainability measures for an underserved population.

Join us for a summer Pro Tour of a 1782 Vermont Farmhouse, currently under construction for a zero-energy retrofit and expansion in beautiful Reading, Vermont. This project combines an energy retrofit on a historic Cape and a high-performance vernacular addition built off-site to create a net zero energy building with reduced embodied carbon. This 4181 sq. ft. square-foot building and features updated hydronics, appliances, an air-water heat pump, EV charging, whose energy use is balanced via on-site photovoltaic electrical generation. The building was designed to blend into its rural setting, connect the living spaces to the surrounding landscape, and serve the diverse programming needs of the clients: aging in place, family gatherings, and hosting groups ranging from 10-40+ people for community-building events and smaller retreat experiences.