BuildingEnergy NYC 2020 Conference Sessions
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Retrofit for Tomorrow: Meet the Danish Frontrunners To accelerate deep energy efficiency retrofits, cities need better collaboration and international knowledge exchange. Strict building codes, energy labeling, and an innovative retrofit industry... Full Description |
Commercial Institutional Multifamily/High Rise Retrofit |
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Insulating the Future: Reducing Embodied & Operational Carbon with Next-Generation All-Wood Insulation Insulation products are unique among construction materials, because their essential function is to reduce the operational space heating and cooling energy demands of buildings. However, 90... Full Description |
Single Family/Low Rise New Construction Technology Health & Comfort |
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Dual Temperature Buildings: High Carbon & Energy Users, Leveraging Capital Upgrades for the LL97 Paradigm Dual temperature buildings utilize a hydronic loop for both heating and cooling and typically rely on steam boilers or utility steam and steam-fed chillers. These buildings typically use at least... Full Description |
Commercial Multifamily/High Rise Retrofit |
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C-PACE as a Financing Tool for Deep Energy Retrofits to Comply with Local Law 97 Recent legislation passed by the New York City Council (Local Law 97) is putting tremendously strict new requirements on commercial buildings (including non-rent controlled multifamily) to reduce... Full Description |
Commercial Multifamily/High Rise Retrofit |
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Moving the Masses toward Timber Construction As members of the AEC industry, it is our responsibility to understand and champion low embodied-carbon building materials. Concurrently, mass timber products such as cross-laminated timber have... Full Description |
Commercial Institutional Multifamily/High Rise Design Process |
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Multifamily Ventilation: A Tale of Two Cities Central ventilation systems in multifamily buildings are a critical health and safety system, with significant energy and carbon ramifications. Through case studies, this session will highlight... Full Description |
Multifamily/High Rise Retrofit Health & Comfort Building Operations |
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Behind the Meter: The Challenges & Opportunities of Solar & Storage in NYC’s Multifamily Buildings While there is growing adoption of solar and energy storage systems in the US as a whole, there are still significant and unique challenges that are preventing New York City from achieving... Full Description |
Multifamily/High Rise Resiliency |
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Nature Knows: Diversity in Practice Diversity in a natural ecosystem – plants, animals, insects, microbes – is essential for long-term systemic health. Nature’s principle of “strength through diversity” can apply to us... Full Description |
Design Process Health & Comfort Building Operations |
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New York State’s Path to All-Electric, Carbon-Neutral Buildings This session will provide an overview of two groundbreaking clean energy initiatives coming out of NYSERDA: the Carbon Neutral Buildings Roadmap and the Building Electrification Roadmap. These... Full Description |
Resiliency Energy Production & Storage Integrated Systems Building Operations Occupant Behavior & Engagement Finance |
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Using Data to Allocate Time & Capital across a Multi-Family Real Estate Portfolio Data-driven decision-making is the process of basing operational and investment decisions on actual data, rather than intuition or observation alone. With an 11,500-unit portfolio stretching... Full Description |
Multifamily/High Rise Technology Health & Comfort Finance |
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A Toxic Investment? Your Building’s Health Begins with Healthy Materials Let’s make the multifamily affordable housing synonymous with healthy building construction. Many of us already seek out healthy materials for our projects, and all of us can with the right... Full Description |
Commercial Multifamily/High Rise Single Family/Low Rise Health & Comfort Building Operations Occupant Behavior & Engagement |
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Electrifying a 100-Year-Old NYC Pre-War Multifamily Building During this session you will learn about an important moderate-income multifamily building in New York City that went through a major transformation to electrify its heating and hot water,... Full Description |
Multifamily/High Rise Single Family/Low Rise Retrofit |
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Unlocking the Value of Retrocommissioning: How to Achieve Energy & Carbon Reduction Goals through Training & Culture Every successful Retro-Commissioning (retro-cx) project and program includes collaboration with the building’s operating staff. It is critical to foster a culture of trust and engagement with all... Full Description |
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New York Energy Manager: Big Data, Better Analytics The New York Energy Manager (NYEM) gives customers unprecedented insight into their building usage by using real-time data to improve building energy performance, reduce environmental impact, and... Full Description |
Commercial Institutional Building Operations |
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Refining Refrigerants for the Future Refrigerants used in building systems have historically been a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions. While eliminating chlorofluorocarbons (CFC’s) and moving towards refrigerants such as... Full Description |
Design Process Technology Integrated Systems Building Operations |
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Out of [Site], in the Air: Embodied Carbon & Material Selection Embodied Carbon (EC) emissions from the building sector produce 11% of annual global GHG emissions (second to transportation). Embodied carbon, unlike operational carbon, is out of sight, off site... Full Description |
Retrofit New Construction Design Process Resiliency Technology Standards in Action* Codes/Policy |
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New Heat Pump Technologies to the Rescue New innovative heat pump products are entering the New York market in order to help electrify space heating and improve space cooling efficiency. These products are alternatives to traditional... Full Description |
Commercial Multifamily/High Rise Retrofit |
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Improving Your Project's Material Health A project’s construction materials can have significant and enduring health effects—not only on the building's occupants, but also on the community where the products are produced and disposed... Full Description |
Health & Comfort |
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Uncovering the True Cost of Passive House: What We Can Learn from the Early Adopters How do we get lenders to fund high-performance construction and developers to drive adoption? With data. While the Passive House design movement has been active in the US and Canada since 1973, it... Full Description |
Multifamily/High Rise Building Operations Standards in Action* |
