BREAKOUT SPONSORED BY NATIONAL GRID - We will review our current Commercial & Industrial, Multifamily and Residential Energy Efficiency program offerings for our service territories of Brooklyn, Staten Island, parts of Queens and Long Island.

New York City Local Law 31 of 2016 set stringent source energy use intensity (EUI) targets for the design of new municipal capital buildings, additions, and substantial reconstructions. Local Law 97 of 2019, part of the City’s Climate Mobilization Act, set aggressive new greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets...

How much carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere as a result of your new construction project? With the advent of industry-wide Environmental Product Declarations (EPD’s) for most conventional construction materials, it’s now possible to calculate the approximate tons of CO2e emitted from the construction of our buildings.

This session will detail factors contributing to optimal human health, both indoors and outdoors in the built environment; study emerging data from Harvard’s Ventilation/IAQ project and its hoped-for effect on affordable housing developers, policymakers, and capital providers; advise on hazardous chemicals and healthier choices of materials specifically related to electrification; and lay out key electrification strategies for protecting health in a socially equitable and cost-effective manner.

Speakers will provide an overview of NYC’s Climate Mobilization Act and the NYC Retrofit Accelerator’s High Performance Track, present new resources for deep energy retrofits including technology primers created specifically for building owners and decision-makers, and provide a case study of an exemplary project that has completed a high performance retrofit project.

As municipalities, states and federal mandates push for carbon reductions, fossil free buildings and a clean grid emerge as critical pathways. Achieving this on any building poses seriously challenges; however, when evaluating large buildings, the challenges become even more difficult. This panel of experts has extensive experience designing, testing and monitoring both new construction and existing buildings attempting to achieve high performance, low-carbon goals.