Kyle Sword
Username
Kyle Sword
Proposer First Name
Kyle
Proposer Email
kyle.sword@nsg.com
Proposer Last Name
Sword
Proposer Company/Organization
NSG Pilkington
Proposer Phone
(419) 247-3994

Boston 2022 Areas of Focus

Proposer Job Title
Manager Business Development
Proposer Additional Info
Kyle Sword is the Business Development Manager for Pilkington North America and heads the company’s interests in business development, marketing, and historic restoration. Has worked for NSG Pilkington for 20+ years, mostly in glass manufacturing. Ceramic Engineering degree from The Ohio State University and an MBA from California State University, Sacramento. Kyle is involved with a variety of different technological developments in the glass industry including VIG, BIPV, and transparent conductive materials. Main business function is to spread glass education and look for new opportunities to provide value for customers creating products with coated and flat glass products.
Proposed Session Description
Window design strategies for zero energy in both existing and new buildings are often quite different, but both demand attention. Existing building retrofit solutions can offer real energy reductions. A case study of the Albert Kahn building restoration will show how emerging technologies create better solutions for embodied and operational building carbon. New technologies such as the thin triple IGU and BIPV will be instrumental in new buildings as we learn to adjust the design to accommodate for highly insulating glazing, grid electrification, and onsite renewable power generation.
Diversity and Inclusiveness
Case study on the Kahn building in Detroit addresses how to hire and train the local community for restoration and retrofit work versus offsite repairs using out of town employees. Positive impacts result in education/training as well as reduced carbon impact from transport and worker relocation.
Learning Objectives
Explain the energy reduction challenges of retrofitting versus new construction.
Identify emerging technologies that can help upgrade existing buildings and significantly reduce carbon usage.
Explain how the embodied carbon and operational carbon analysis from the case studies can be applied to reduce the carbon footprint of windows.
Demonstrate knowledge of emerging technologies that enable onsite power generation and benefit grid electrification efforts.
Has this session been presented before?
Yes
When and Where?
Getting to Zero Conference, October 2021, New York City APT conference, Virtual conference, October 2021 Traditional Building Conference, December 2021
Additional Comments
The case study and carbon analysis on the Kahn building was also published on IGS in September 2021.
Session Format
Presentation followed by facilitated discussion or breakout groups
Session Format Details
Can be
Recommended Length
60-minute session
90-minute session
30-minute session

Strongest Content Connection - Boston 2022

Comments about your speaker roster
I'm able to bring in two other speakers, depending on interest. Kate Allen-Lezak is the vice president of Allen Architectural Metals and performed the work reglazing the Kahn building. She could talk in depth about the glazing work and the strategies for local workforce training and engagement. Her focus is historic restoration, which may be a tertiary interest for NESEA, however the energy and sustainability goals of the ZNE movement will take significant leads from historic restoration in my opinion. Veeral Hardev is the manager of business development for Ubiquitous and his company makes BIPV (building-integrated photovoltaics) which will be a key technology in onsite power generation and grid electrification efforts. He could further introduce this technology and share the benefits for new design.
Anything else you'd like to tell us about your session proposal?
My company manufactured flat coated and uncoated glass. Because we sell to all types of window manufacturers, we're essentially solution agnostic. The session is intended to help educate and share the emerging technologies available and explain the strategies on how to use these to make better choices in the pursuit to reduce the carbon impact of windows. What I hear most often from architects/developers/energy providers is why haven't I heard about this before, so our main goal is education on emerging technologies and the solutions they provide. In most cases, we don't commercially sell the products we'll discuss directly.
Reviewer 1
Heath, Anna
Reviewer 2
Greenberg, Asher
Curator
Simons, Mike
Proposal #
141
Session #
211
Committee Decision
Accepted

Presenters

Full Description
This session helps challenge the paradigm on how to look at existing buildings. To address the challenges of climate change and carbon usage, significant work has to be undertaken to upgrade existing building stock. Existing monolithic glazed buildings represent 40% of the building stock in the US and represent 45% of heat loss from buildings. New technologies to speed adoption of existing building retrofits will be required to achieve the needed energy reductions. By showcasing ways to drive lower embodied and operating carbon solutions for existing buildings, we start to define a pathway for success. Session also addresses the project managements structure and how embracing the local community in the installation helps drive success. New construction and ZNE building design will also need to adopt emerging technologies to address the form, function, weight, performance, and cost structure for effective implementation. Awareness of these emerging technologies is critical to speed adoption.