Jason Block
Username
Jason Block
Proposer First Name
Jason
Proposer Email
jason@c15.io
Proposer Last Name
Block
Proposer Company/Organization
Cadence OneFive
Proposer Phone
(609) 519-5377
Proposer Job Title
Principal Mechanical Engineer
Boston 2023 Areas of Focus
Proposer Additional Info
Jason has spent the last 15 years working to improve the efficiency, health, and quality of multifamily housing in and around the NYC metro area. He joined Cadence OneFive earlier this year to leverage his boots-on-the-ground experience into a more scalable and transparent approach to helping us move towards a more efficient, decarbonized, and just housing system.
Proposed Session Description
Achieving climate goals requires a significant increase in building retrofits. Instead of customized energy audits per building, public data can be used to audit a city’s worth of buildings at once, compressing the scoping phase from months to weeks, even days, enabling decision makers to confidently and quickly move forward with relevant projects. Minimizing the time and money building owners need to obtain this information can help the properties that most often are home to low-income tenants. Automation and cost savings provide an opportunity for historically-disinvested properties to participate in an equitable decarbonized future.
Diversity and Inclusiveness
As we rush towards decarbonizing multifamily buildings–creating new tech, new initiatives–it’s essential to ensure frontline communities are not left behind. Highly customized audits, extenuating report timelines, and other lengthy processes are further delaying communities from action. As solutions are being scaled, it is critical to ensure an equitable transition is one that frontline communities can afford and does not leave them in additional financial debt which can accelerate displacement. The use cases being presented in this session are targeted towards disinvested LMI communities, ensuring they have an affordable, digestible pathway forward and empowering local organizations to utilize open data for good.
Learning Objectives
Discover how to apply public data to identify retrofit scopes applicable to the majority of typical multifamily buildings
Articulate how to leverage this data in a geography-based decarbonization strategy
Mobilize housing advocacy organizations with tech to accelerate decarbonization within disinvested communities
Identify ways to engage LMI communities in their own region
Has this session been presented before?
No
Session Format
Interview or structured conversation among panelists
Session Format Details
Presentations of the technical approach and 3 use cases of application and engagement, followed by Q&A
Recommended Length
90-minute session
Strongest Content Connection - Boston 2023
Reviewer 1
Boettcher, Dave
Reviewer 2
Veerkamp, Danny
Proposal #
144
Committee Decision
Being Considered
Full Description
This session directly speaks to the conference theme of Scalable Solutions. The solution being presented provides a holistic and human approach to support properties with limited financial capacity to participate in a clean energy future. This session marries the technical solutions necessary to bring the building stock into an efficient and decarbonized future with community adoption and mobilization. The technology solution presented incorporates years of research and implementation by the industry’s energy- and building science-focused providers, who have envisioned, tested, and proven the pathways. But the industry needs a way to get those proven solutions out into the market at scale, beyond the early adopters, centered around those who need it the most, and it needs to happen quickly. This session will show what we can do with data that’s easily and widely available, and how various providers are using that information to move projects forward within utility programs, advisory support roles, and investment portfolios.