Sessions

• Resiliency: Energy When You Need It
• The BrightBuilt Barn 10-year Anniversary: Celebrating the Birth of Affordable, Off-Site-Built Net Zero and the Industry Change It Spawned
• How Energy Efficiency Creates Opportunities & Financing in Multifamily Housing
• The Not-Quite-Edible House: Making Healthy Material Choices
• EnergyVision 2030: A Plan for Changes to our Energy System
• How Do We Get from Passive House to Truly Low-Carbon Buildings?
• Signal to Noise: What Engineers See and You Miss in Products Specs
• New Construction: Beyond Modeling to Real Data & Results
• Utility Transformation: Creating a Lower-Cost, More Reliable, Carbon-Free Electricity Distribution System
• "But I Don’t Care" (Being an Effective Communicator)
• The New Gravity: Climate Change and the Imperative of High-Performance Housing
• Unvented Roofs without Spray Foam: The Latest Building America Research
• Should We Stop Trying to Update to the Latest Model Building Energy Code?
• Where We Went Right & Where We Went Left: Measured vs. Modeled Energy Performance
• Help! I'm Drowning
• CANCELLED - Every Building a Living Building: Tapping into Biology to Grow the Next Generation of High-Performing Buildings
• Energy Storage: The Next Frontier
• New or Renovated - High Performance in Education
• Comparing Three Certification Metrics That Drive Sustainability in Affordable Multifamily Housing
• Escalating Excellence in Envelopes: Stories from Practice
• Stretch Codes: Why this policy offers the best hope for rapid transformation to meet state and local climate goals
• Building Inherent Value: Implementing the Passive House Building Standard
• Making the Invisible Visible: A Blueprint for Seeking Real Estate Value for Energy Efficiency
• Comparing the Business of Architecture to Construction to Development
• Deploying Post-Disaster Renewables
• Getting Smarter about Smart Buildings
• Data-Driven Boiler System Design and Installation
• Policy Updates: Net Metering and Fixed Charges in the Northeast
• Smart Parking Design as a Climate Tool
• Big Building Implications for Multifamily Passive House
• Thermal & Energy Analysis for Architects: Why, When, & How
• Green Gauges: A Design Methodology at Williams College
• Crisis in Cannabis Cultivation: Latest Energy Developments in Data, Practice, and Policy
• Meeting the Demands of Healthier Buildings: How to Navigate Building Product Certifications
• Retrocommissioning with the Chiefs: Training Operators to Sustain the Process
• CANCELLED Field Notes with Terry Brennan: High Performance Solutions in Commercial and Institutional Construction
• The Future City: An Integrated Ecosystem
• Multi-Family, Tenant-in-Place, Passive Rehab: It's Possible!
• Integrative Carbon Building: Embodied Carbon, Net Positive Carbon, and the New Carbon Architecture
• Punching Above Your Weight Class: Exceeding Client Sustainability Requirements within a Tight Budget
• The Great Indoors: Green Building and Health Outcomes
• Utility Benchmarking 101: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Can Benefit You
• Heat Pump Water Heaters for Multifamily
• KISS (Keep It Simple, Smartypants): A builder’s perspective on straightforward construction details for constructing a low-cost, high-performance home
• Choices, Choices: Cladding and Climate Change
• Air Tightness Requirements of the Passive House Standard
• The Drawbacks of Breathing: Nighttime Carbon Dioxide Levels in New England Bedrooms
• Getting Solar Ready with Permitting and Inspection Processes
• The Risky Business of Integrative Pre-Design
• Real Life Air Source Heat Pumps
• What Not to Spec: How to Avoid Toxins, Endocrine Disruptors, and Carcinogens in Your Next Building Project
• Cities as Climate Leaders: Net Zero & the Urgency of Now
• PACE Financing: Scaling Commercial and Residential Net-Zero Energy Retrofits
• The Magic (Electric) School Bus
• Keynote Panel: Building Our Community: Engaging the Emerging Workforce
• Robots, Vacuums, and Butterflies Build a Better Wall
• A German Perspective on Building Energy
• Be Passive(haus) Aggressive: Affordable Housing in Massachusetts
• Net Zero Schools: Start with the HVAC
• Lightning Round: Questions and Answers to Fuel Your Work