Past Events

Join us at the conclusion of the first day of BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 to toast 50 years of NESEA! We'll gather to celebrate our first 50 years, share our dreams for the future, and connect with others from our growing NESEA community.

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.

This session will explore how to revitalize and optimize ventilation systems in existing multi-family buildings in New York to bring older, inefficient, and poorly performing ventilation systems in compliance with today’s standards for energy and indoor air quality. The session will include an overview of available financing and energy efficiency incentives to support these projects.

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.

Learn about CPC Climate Capital and how they're financing carbon-reducing work on existing and to-be-built multifamily buildings. CPC Climate Capital, a subsidiary of the Community Preservation Corporation, is part of Climate United, a national coalition of three nonprofits that received $6.97 billion from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to finance carbon-reduction projects nationwide. Of the money awarded to Climate United, CPC Climate Capital received $2.4 billion to execute Climate United's multifamily housing strategy.

Join us for an insightful webinar exploring the synergy between NYSERDA's Buildings of Excellence (BOE) Demonstration and Early Design Support (EDS) programs. Learn about groundbreaking affordable multifamily projects that have received funding from both programs, with a special focus on Passive House certified projects. Discover how these programs are helping shape the future of clean and resilient buildings. Guest speaker Grayson Jordan from "The Beacon" project will share experiences, challenges, and successes in leveraging both BOE and EDS for transformational outcomes.

Join U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) staff and local experts for a discussion about the next iteration of the LEED green building certification system, LEED v5. USGBC intends to drive the built environment toward a low-carbon future that is equitable and resilient and promotes the wise, safe utilization of all resources. USGBC staff and local experts will guide attendees through the new rating system's structure and explain how to engage in the rating system.

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.