Resilient, Cost-Effective, and Carbon Neutral: The Future of New York’s Multifamily Buildings

Round 1: NO, lacks innovation

Yes - while it might lack technical innovation, an important and very difficult part of the innovation process is discovering the right value for the right market.  This includes the motivations for buyers, the support for end-to-end delivery, and the structure of financing.  I would expect this session to help us see stories of how projects have come together and also highlight how much work is still needed (and maybe where) in order to create broad acceptance in the market place.

Maybe/No - This sounds like it would be a high-ish level overview of the projects awarded BOE grants. Could be a great opportunity to showcase some of the best of the best in terms of high performance design. I'm curious if any of these have gone to construction or if this would just be a review of their applications and early Conceptual Design packages.

Round 1 Discussion:High-level overview, unclear if they've been built, proposal a bit vague

Round 2: YESComments: Based on my discussion with the NBI team,the data/lessons learned from Round 1 and 2 projects that were selected for the BOE award will be very interesting and relevant for the NYC conference. It sounds like they will have a diverse speaker panel and will touch on aspects of the process ranging from project financing, cost of HE buildings (from a developer/design team perspective), some performance data, and the resulting valuation of these buildings (both financally and for occupancy comfort). They will have some performance data since some of the round 1 projects will have completed construction and they will select projects are more relevant to buildings in NYC. They also indicated that they may be able to have a tour of one of the awarded projects if NESEA wanted to coordinate that.  Notes based on Discussion with Presenter: Presentation format: a few speakers covering difference aspects of the buildings. Not a traditional panel. Facilitation plan -Moderator will walk through specific aspects of the programTrends analysis - critical aspects of the design and marketIdeally bring a various members involved in the presentation: design (arch), commercial real estate perspective (financing)They expect to have some data from the Round 2 submissions well. There are 5 Buildings of Excellence projects completed with and additional 2 scheduled to be completed by September.  Four of those are downstate. Two are rehabs. The rest are new construction. There will be some actual energy use data, but likely not a full year’s worth:Round 1: mixed fuel baselinesRound 2: these buildings - all electric buildings, so may compare costsTakeaways:the design teams are becoming better at managing costs associated with electrification. Keeping it below the 3% of the baseline costValue of these properties at post construction (financial value for owner)Co-benefits of health, comfort - working with Nyserda to get a better grasp on this information for the occupants/ownerResiliency as well - how can they prepare for future weather changes (islanding)Round 1 will have a few completed buildings - but may not have a years worth of performance data (Examples will be relevant to NYC projects)They even could do a tour of the one of the buildings possibly if it's near the conference hotel 

R2 Discussion:Good, diverse speaker group (too big?). Mostly focused on Round 1, which has a few completed projects, mix of rehabs and new construction. Will have some real energy use data.