Show Me the Money: If You Can't Pay for It, You Can't Do It

If a building owner feels they can’t afford to internally finance a retrofit job, they drop the ball, the associated savings, and the business for our sector. To avoid these business losses, practitioners need to understand local and regional incentives, traditional financing methods, and cutting edge ways to get your projects done. These three knowledgeable and highly experienced financial gurus will walk you through many ways to help close the deal.

The Property Manager's Perspective: Getting Value from Benchmarking and Audits

Large multifamily buildings in New York City are required to conduct benchmarking and ASHRAE II audits of their buildings by law. Learn from leading property managers how to use these mandates to net real returns for your building. Property managers will discuss the use of benchmarking in routine building operations. Case studies of retrofit projects that resulted from audit recommendations will also be explored.

Living on the Edge: Resiliency, Energy, and Affordability

With every passing year, temperatures and storms are becoming more extreme in our region. Protecting both tenants and building systems requires a new way of thinking about floodproofing, thermal comfort, and power loss. Speakers will review best practices and design solutions that have been implemented in affordable housing developments and retrofits to address a wide variety of environmental stressors. Speakers will also explore the public and private sources used to fund the projects.

BQDM: Retrofitting for Reliability

From Brownsville to Woodhaven, new policies and practices that are changing how we identify, finance, and implement energy conservation projects. This session will provide an overview of Con Edison’s Brooklyn Queens Demand Management (BQDM) program then dive into the innovative strategies that are improving grid reliability and savings dollars. From big to small, commercial to residential, we’re covering it all.

New York City's Data Revolution

Building owners and decision-makers of New York City’s largest buildings now have more information than ever before to understand their energy consumption and prioritize investments in new equipment and maintenance. Many building owners are undertaking efficiency measures as a result of this information, but they still face a range of obstacles to pursuing building upgrades, such as limited capital, difficulties navigating financing and incentive programs, and the complexities of undertaking energy efficiency upgrades.

Tuesday Workshop - Getting to 2030: Frameworks & Roadmaps to Help You Achieve Portfolio-Wide Performance Improvements

Being a truly green firm is about more than just being “able” to deliver LEED projects. It's about aligning overall company vision, management, operations and project delivery with the demands of integrative design and collaborative relationships – and measuring company performance improvements as a result. Whether your firm delivers LEED on every project – or not, you can develop the internal systems, processes and protocols to ensure a higher level of performance across the board. The strategies that you put in place improve internal efficiency and position your company to be a truly “green” firm, and differentiate yourselves in a very competitive market. If your firm has been struggling with the 2030 Commitment or hit a plateau, this session gives you the frameworks and roadmaps to overcome the barriers to your success. This interactive workshop builds your capacity to implement these strategies in the most cost-effective way and provides practical tools to enable you to implement comprehensive strategic initiatives in your firm. This session helps you go from “random acts of sustainability” to a truly integrated approach to sustainable design, construction and operations.

Tuesday Workshop - DIY Brand Camp: Branding for the Rest of Us

DIY Brand Camp teaches leaders and teams with big ideas but not-so-big budgets how to harness the power of clear branding. Designed for the senior leaders of mission-driven companies and organizations, it teaches how to understand your company’s story, how to express it so that it is meaningful to your audience, and how to use this understanding as a tool for strategic development. Clear positioning, strategic messaging and effective communications are uniquely powerful tools. But typically they are used only by those who can afford to hire a branding firm.

Closing Forum: 100 Years of Experience

The closing forum will feature 6 Pecha Kucha 20x20 presentations (20 slides, each for 20 seconds) followed by a discussion moderated by Matt Root. Participants will include three sages—John Abrams, Chuck Silver and Terry Brennan and three rising stars - Declan Keefe, Ace McArleton and Stephanie Horowitz. In 90 minutes, this session will teach you more about building, design, business, and life than you could learn in 10 years on your own.

Renewable Energy Powering Local Self-Reliance: Case Studies from Germany

Over 150 villages in Germany produce all of the electricity and most of the heat they consume.  In these so-called "bioenergy villages," renewable energy systems are driving economic growth.   This session will provide an overview of the growing movement in Germany toward communally-developed and owned energy systems, focusing particularly on two villages in northern Germany.  The development process for these villages will be explored, as will the factors contributing to their success.

Reinventing the Water Grid Part II: Nutrient Recycling and Other Opportunities for Fun & Profit

Session two will dig deeper into two solutions – both fresher paths forward than the expensive model of centralized-systems solutions. First is a look into cities such as Atlanta, where the cost of water and wastewater have soared but the system and the treatment technologies are working. Second is the promising practice of source-separating urine for fertilizer production—a pilot in Falmouth, MA is demonstrating cost-effective alternative to building a new treatment plant.

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