More banks are beginning to incorporate green and high performance building into their mortgage underwriting process for multifamily properties. If leading lenders begin to encourage and provide incentives for owners to pursue energy and water efficiency and renewable energy at the time of rehab, refinance or acquisition, the results could be transformative for the industry. On this panel, three leading lenders - the Community Preservation Corporation, Fannie Mae, and Bank of America - will discuss their approaches to green underwriting and opportunities for building owners to access more financing and discounts by going green. The panel will discuss pathways to helping stakeholders integrate efficiency upgrades into major capital events, like refinancing, while recommending additional measures that can be done during tenant turnover.

Session sponsored by NYSERDA: You need the right data. NYSERDA can help you get the right data to make smart energy choices. And how do you pay for it? NYSERDA offers funding to help offset the cost of energy studies and energy management.

Hitting 80x50 will require a workforce of construction personnel capable of implementing sustainable building solutions. Training the existing and future workforce will be a massive endeavor, and that work is already underway.

This one-hour session will focus on the energy engineer’s role in leveraging energy audits and financing to do more implementation work. Financing can be used as a resource to extend capital budgets, increase payback requirements, and provide off-balance sheet and paid-from-savings options.

Conventional wisdom says that high performance buildings are expensive. That needn’t be the case. From affordable to market-rate housing, Passive House projects are making financial sense, managing risk, and making money.

This session will be an in-depth look at three of the largest university and hospital organizations in the New York Metropolitan area—New York Presbyterian Hospital, St. John’s University, and Princeton University—and how they have been able to achieve significant energy and carbon savings through a variety

Operating buildings, especially in NYC, can be challenging all by itself. Now throw in additional compliance or organization goals to operate more efficiently and the requirement to track the operational data, and you have an even bigger web of to-do’s to get through as owners/operators. From this panel

How can a district model facilitate integrating innovation, aggregation, and community action to accelerate progress toward Urban Climate Sustainability and Resilience? Speakers in this session will present background of the 2030 Districts, collaborative methods and goals, metrics for success, and the status of the Emerging NYC 2030 District.

The creation of the NYC Retrofit Accelerator and Community Retrofit NYC marks a shift in how energy efficiency services are delivered to New York City’s large and fragmented market. These programs are exploring new options for overcoming market barriers to efficiency investments