BuildingEnergy Boston 2026 Evaluations
Thank you for joining us at BuildingEnergy Boston 2026. Please help us continue to improve this event:
- Evaluate the entire conference
- Evaluate the sessions you attended below
NESEA staff will share your feedback with next year’s conference planning committee to guide the design and content of BuildingEnergy Boston 2026. Questions? Contact Ben Sachs-Hamilton, Conference Director, at bsachs-hamilton@nesea.org.
| Event Date | Session Title | Speakers | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday, March 23 - 9:00 to 10:00 | Keynote - In for the Long Run: The Cost of Pausing | Evaluate | Arlen Li Anthony Michetti Julie Newman |
| Event Date | Session Title | Speakers | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday, March 23 - 10:30 to 12:00 | Comfort & Savings for All: Talking Decarbonization with Anyone | Evaluate | Paulina Dieffenbach Miriam Gee Sara Kudra |
| Monday, March 23 - 10:30 to 12:00 | Breaking Thermal Bridges: A Guide to the Divide | Evaluate | Jim D'Aloisio Russ Miller-Johnson Ivan Lee |
| Monday, March 23 - 10:30 to 12:00 | Scaling Resilience Through Community & Collaboration | Evaluate | Virgil Blower Greg Bossie Ace McArleton |
| Monday, March 23 - 10:30 to 12:00 | Connecting the Dots for Small Residential Decarbonization: Lessons from the Field | Evaluate | Kenna Lauer Lissette Paukert Maggie Super Church Brooks Winner |
| Monday, March 23 - 10:30 to 12:00 | Operational and Embodied Carbon, Together at Last! The MA 100-Home Embodied Carbon Study | Evaluate | Patrick Nachlas Jacob Deva Racusin |
| Event Date | Session Title | Speakers | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday, March 23 - 1:00 to 2:00 | Deconstruction and Reuse in Fitouts: A Case Study | Evaluate | Jan Abercrombie Caroline Murray Andrew Thompson |
| Monday, March 23 - 1:00 to 2:00 | Cutting Ties: Designing to Reduce Reliance on Existing Utility Plants | Evaluate | Justin Dufresne Rheannon DeMond Matthew Lewis |
| Monday, March 23 - 1:00 to 2:00 | Keeping It Cool! Toolkits and Strategies for Extreme Heat and Urban Heat Island Mitigation | Evaluate | Ariel Brenner Jacob Miller Sasha Shyduroff |
| Monday, March 23 - 1:00 to 2:00 | Proof over Promises: Cold Climate Multifamily Retrofit Results | Evaluate | Connor Jansen Kelly Westby |
| Monday, March 23 - 1:00 to 2:00 | The Cost of Prediction: Where the Models End and Meters Begin | Evaluate | James Moriarty Michelle Tinner |
| Event Date | Session Title | Speakers | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday, March 23 - 2:30 to 3:30 | Deep Dive: Designing a High-Performance Pool and Community Center in Boston | Evaluate | Brett Bentson Petra Jarolimova Niles Tooher |
| Monday, March 23 - 2:30 to 3:30 | Financial Statement Storytelling: Building Accountability and Engagement | Evaluate | Carolyn Edsell-Vetter |
| Monday, March 23 - 2:30 to 3:30 | Scaling Heat Pumps for LMI Communities through Trusted Local Partnerships | Evaluate | Brendan Ryan Gurbani Singh |
| Monday, March 23 - 2:30 to 3:30 | Building Better with What We Have: Balancing Carbon, Cost, and Housing | Evaluate | Matthew Mongan Abbott Price |
| Monday, March 23 - 2:30 to 3:30 | Through The Details: Lessons Learned from 50 Phius Design Certifications | Evaluate | John Loercher Steve Scribner |
| Event Date | Session Title | Speakers | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday, March 23 - 4:00 to 5:00 | Unlocking Residential Geothermal: How Builders Are Overcoming Cost and Complexity Barriers | Evaluate | Bryan Roberts |
| Monday, March 23 - 4:00 to 5:00 | Onward to 2050! Two Existing Commercial Building Decarbonization Case Studies | Evaluate | Martine Dion Melissa Russell |
| Monday, March 23 - 4:00 to 5:00 | More Good through Less Bad | Evaluate | Jim D'Aloisio Jodi Smits Anderson |
| Monday, March 23 - 4:00 to 5:00 | Building the Energy Workforce: Hands-On Pathways from Campus to Community | Evaluate | Tyler Hebert Helen Lloyd Samara McLaughlin Rashmi Mohan |
| Event Date | Session Title | Speakers | |
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| Tuesday, March 24 - 9:00 to 10:00 | Keynote - Unstoppable: Inner Resilience and Generational Leadership | Evaluate | Melissa O'Mara Kevin Stack |
| Event Date | Session Title | Speakers | |
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| Tuesday, March 24 - 10:30 to 12:00 | Spinach and Sustainability: Making Green Irresistible | Evaluate | Heather Jauregui Alejandra Menchaca Jana Silsby |
| Tuesday, March 24 - 10:30 to 12:00 | Decarbonizing Non-Profit Buildings via No-Cost Planning and Financing Resources | Evaluate | Erin Camp Amy Dorfman Helio Rosa David Ruggiero |
| Tuesday, March 24 - 10:30 to 12:00 | From Building Decarbonization to Campus Decarbonization: Lessons, Pitfalls, Results | Evaluate | Karl Calvo Jacob Knowles Romeo Michael Tammy Ngo Tamar Warburg |
| Tuesday, March 24 - 10:30 to 12:00 | Anti-Racism In Action | Evaluate | Kate Stephenson Jesse Ware III Maria Washington |
| Tuesday, March 24 - 10:30 to 12:00 | Less Carbon, Same Building: How Builders and Designers Can Cut Embodied Carbon Today | Evaluate | Ben Bogie Jacob Deva Racusin |
| Event Date | Session Title | Speakers | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, March 24 - 1:00 to 2:00 | Optimizing Passive Building for Cost Effectiveness: Tools and Methods | Evaluate | Ryan Abendroth Stefan Goebel Shannon Pendleton |
| Tuesday, March 24 - 1:00 to 2:00 | From Model to Meter: What Can We Learn from the Massachusetts LBER Data? | Evaluate | Lyn Huckabee Christopher Schaffner |
| Tuesday, March 24 - 1:00 to 2:00 | How to Make a House Levitate: The Accidental Deep Energy Retrofit | Evaluate | Phil Kaplan Gavin Pond Grace Tisdale |
| Tuesday, March 24 - 1:00 to 2:00 | Mass Timber: Strategies for Carbon, Cost, and Constructability | Evaluate | Billy Craig John Dalzell David Robb Suzanne Robinson |
| Event Date | Session Title | Speakers | |
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| Tuesday, March 24 - 2:30 to 3:30 | Are You Smarter than a Phius Reviewer? | Evaluate | Betsy Cooke Molly Craft Margaret Goetsch Nicole Schuster |
| Tuesday, March 24 - 2:30 to 3:30 | From Gas to Electricity with Speed and Equity | Evaluate | Audrey Schulman Mary Wambui |
| Tuesday, March 24 - 2:30 to 3:30 | Retrocommissioning For Existing Buildings | Evaluate | Ilene Mason Julia Rogers Neetu Siddarth Jesse Stallions |
| Tuesday, March 24 - 2:30 to 3:30 | Closing the Materials Gap: Practical Steps for Making Better Materials Choices | Evaluate | Kena David Andrea Love Misha SemeLev Charley Stevenson |
| Tuesday, March 24 - 2:30 to 3:30 | Who Pays and Who Saves? How Electric Rates Shape Equitable Multifamily Electrification | Evaluate | Ella Mure Eva Rosenbloom |
| Event Date | Session Title | Speakers | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, March 24 - 4:00 to 5:00 | Designing the Future of Learning: Insights from Passive Schools | Evaluate | Katherine Bubriski Ryan Dirks Jess Farber Nicole Peterson |
| Tuesday, March 24 - 4:00 to 5:00 | Multifamily Ventilation Systems: Do We Really Need CAR Dampers? | Evaluate | Sarah Carter James Petersen |
| Tuesday, March 24 - 4:00 to 5:00 | Deep Energy Retrofits, Round 3: A Holistic Cost Analysis | Evaluate | Michael Hindle Kyle Macht |
| Tuesday, March 24 - 4:00 to 5:00 | The Balancing Act: Reducing Embodied and Operational Carbon in High-Performance Envelopes | Evaluate | David Charney Felipe Francisco Rachael Gerry |