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Jason Block
Proposer First Name
Jason
Proposer Email
jason@c15.io
Proposer Last Name
Block
Proposer Phone
(609) 519-5377
Proposer Job Title
Principal Mechanical Engineer
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 last 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 many more building retrofits. Today energy audits are customized per building, adding months and costs to planning. But a city’s worth of buildings can be audited with public data in days. A faster less costly scoping process is especially important for affordable housing decision makers to move relevant projects forward. Automation and cost savings provide an opportunity for historically-disinvested properties to participate in an equitable decarbonized future.
Why is this session important?
This session directly speaks to the conference theme of Deconstructing Decarbonization, highlighting an approach to quickly achieve scale through public data, financing, and stakeholder empowerment. The holistic and human approach supports 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.
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
Educate and mobilize housing owners and advocacy organizations with tech to accelerate decarbonization
Identify ways to effectively engage properties serving low- and moderate-income (LMI) residents and communities in decarbonization
Has this session been presented before?
No
Target Audiences Level of Expertise
Level 2 - Some prior knowledge helpful.
Session Format Details
A brief overview of the data and tool being utilized, then case studies of how utility programs, advisors, and financiers have been using it, followed by Q&A

Strongest Content Connection - NYC 2023

Reviewer 1
O'Hagan, Kristy
Reviewer 2
Rajan, Amritha
Curator
Rajan, Amritha
Proposal #
123
Session #
NYC23-441
Committee Decision
Accepted