BuildingEnergy Pro Tour
Pro Tour: Mass Timber Framed Passive House Retirement Community in Waltham
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.
Pro Tour: Under Construction Community-Centered Educational Facility & Business Spotlight
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.
Pro Tour: Deep Energy Retrofit of Historic Apartments in Boston
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.
Pro Tour: First Modular Passive House Building in NYC
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.
Pro Tour: Flood Resistant Seafront Development in Revere
Join us as we tour a former junkyard on the Revere waterfront that has been reinvented as Gibson Point; a 6-story, 291-unit all-electric development with many interesting architectural features.
Pro Tour: Two Portland Maine Multifamily Buildings Built to Passive House Standards
This September, NESEA invites you to join us for a tour of two recently completed multifamily buildings in Portland, both built to Phius standards. Together, these side-by-side buildings provide the community with 95 units of high performance affordable housing. Not only will this event showcase the design and construction of the buildings and their systems, we will also learn about their place in the larger context of the Mercy Hospital Campus Redevelopment project and the surrounding neighborhood.
Pro Tour: Net-Zero Retrofit of a 1940's Elementary School
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.
Pro Tour: Transforming & Expanding an Existing Building on the Dartmouth College Campus
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.
Pro Tour: Under Construction Passive House with Integrated PV Roof
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.
Pro Tour: Net Zero, Renovated Warehouse Suites in New York's Capital Region
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.