Making the Financial Case for Net Zero Buildings
The presentation illustrates the financial prudence of net zero buildings today. From the outset of design through construction and operation, Maclay Architects and Energy Balance utilize comparative energy modeling and cost estimating to determine financial benefits of net zero buildings compared to code compliant or intermediate building solutions.
Design/Build and Integrated Project Management 101 - Are you ready?
For many teams, it is an almost impossible challenge to simultaneously deliver high performance and cost efficient buildings while maintaining high customer satisfaction and profitability. Integrated design/build delivery providing single responsibility, from schematic design to construction through commissioning and monitoring has proved to be a viable model for successful delivery of cost efficient high performance buildings. This session will examine aspects of planning, marketing, estimating, system development, project management, human resources, accounting, and legal concerns.
BuildingEnergy Bottom Lines
BE Bottom Lines is an exciting new NESEA initiative to establish a group of regional peer group business networks to enhance our business capabilities through bi-annual meetings and year-round engagement. This workshop is an opportunity to participate in the formation of these networks. It will provide an orientation to the focus: Triple Bottom Line business practices that measure and develop service to people, planet, and profit. Business matters. Develop yours by sharing with your peers. BE Bottom lines is gonna be good! This workshop is repeated in the afternoon.
The New Energy Codes and Beyond: How Will This Affect Our Design Practice?
Owners, Developers, Architects and Engineers, the latest additions of the Energy Codes for Commercial Buildings have arrived! Rhode Island and Massachusetts recently passed IECC 2012. New York State is finalizing the change to IECC – 2012 and others will follow. The new energy codes are becoming the minimum design standards across the nation. What does this mean to our projects, practice and design teams? The new Codes require us to revisit our approach to building design in order to further improve energy performance and building operations.
Construction Costs and Operating Costs: Balanced Decision Making
This session will give real world examples of multi-family affordable housing projects that made decisions about trade-offs between construction costs and reduced operating costs. While project teams strive to have no- or low-cost implications for environmentally responsible building features, sometimes a simple payback analysis or life cycle costing can help make decisions. We will have perspectives from RMI’s Super Efficient Housing Program Manager, a green building consultant and an architect to explore some case studies.
Deep Energy Retrofits: Full Value Proposition
This session will explore the actual performance over the past few years of 2 completed Deep Energy Retrofits in Massachusetts which successfully achieved the ACI Thousand Homes Challenge in 2011-12. From the combined perspective of a builder and an architect experienced with a variety of strategies for achieving energy efficient homes, we will compare the approaches in these two cases with other building techniques and programs such as Energy Star, Energy Plus, Net Zero, and Passive House.