Adventures in Retrofitting: Lessons from Two Multifamily Passive House Projects
Two Passive House projects are nearing completion in Pittsburgh. Both will provide affordable housing to seniors. Both involve a Passive House retrofit of an abandoned elementary school. And both will be delivered at or near construction cost parity with conventional affordable housing.
The All-Electric Multifamily: Trends, Technologies and Best Practices for Designing a Gas-Free Future
This session will explore electrification in Multifamily type buildings by looking at the data of 350 multifamily projects, then dive into current technologies for all-electric space heating and current challenges for domestic hot water.
The Challenge of Energy Efficiency in Rent-Regulated Housing
This session will examine how the energy use of the rent-regulated housing sector compares to that of market rate properties. We’ll discuss barriers to efficiency and explore policy strategies that balance the need for upgrades with preservation of affordable housing.
Stretch Energy Codes: Helping Practitioners Reach the Moon
Learn about NYSERDA’s multi-year effort to develop a stretch energy code, how it is designed to provide a local-adoption option to help jurisdictions meet their climate and energy goals, and how NYC and Ithaca intend to implement it.
Thinking Big and Small: A 2030 Municipal Buildings Improvement Plan
Planning for big goals, like becoming a Net Zero community, while attending to the smallest details of managing a diverse building portfolio is hard. This session will explore how the City of Cambridge, MA is doing just that, using a long-term, integrated capital improvement plan.
Getting Energy Efficiency Projects to the Finish Line Using Your Financing Toolkit
What is the current state of energy efficiency project financing? How can one use the available financing options to plan a realistic project and move it to the finish line? In this dynamic session, our experienced panelists will not queue up with individual slide presentations. Instead, you can expect an open and engaging conversation about financing.
Who Me, a High Energy User? A Deep Dive into Tenant Energy Use in Multifamily Buildings
New York City has prioritized energy efficiency in buildings and owners are responsible for bringing down whole building energy use, but what about tenants? Is a majority of energy and water use their responsibility? What interventions can an owner take to reduce base building and tenant loads?
Net Zero Retrofit of a Brooklyn Townhouse
Join us as we delve into a holistic presentation of a deep energy retrofit of a Brooklyn townhouse. This session will explore how the project team planned and executed a retrofit to meet a net-zero energy target, improve thermal comfort and air quality, protect the building from moisture, meet historic guidelines, and stay within a realistic budget – all while keeping the building occupied.
The Extra Mile: How Owners and Tenants Work Together to Build the Best Space Possible
Owners are making as many updates and changes as possible in the competitive world of commercial office space, but what are the tenants doing? How can owners and managers help tenants to build the most efficient space possible while not wasting time or rent dollars? This will be a discussion of lessons learned, successes and failures, constraints and timelines along with how the market is changing to better support tenant fit-outs. Learn from owners, tenants and engineers what the solutions can be to this ongoing challenge.
Bank and Owner: Deep Retrofit Perspectives
This session will dive into developing a retrofit work scope for multifamily projects at different scales – Business as Usual, Deep Energy Retrofit, Passive House, and Net Zero. Each project examines the work scope from a bank and owner’s point of view.