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BuildingEnergy conferences are the flagship program of the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association. The content of these conferences is curated by volunteer committees of NESEA members to ensure that sessions are data-driven, diverse, and genuinely useful to professionals and practitioners working to create a more sustainable built environment.

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Conference: BuildingEnergy Boston 2025
Session Titlesort descending Presentations Conference Presenters
A Total Carbon Analysis Conversation: Balancing Operational and Embodied Carbon PDF icon View Presentation (6.61 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 Shari Rauls
Mélanie Trottier
Addressing Thermal Bridges that Arise During Construction PDF icon View Presentation (5.02 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 Laura Bashaw
Nouha Javed
Cynthia Staats
Aggressive Continuous Commissioning: A Decade of Energy and Carbon Reduction at Liberty Mutual Tower PDF icon View Presentation (5.3 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 Andrew DelPrete
Jess Farber
Terri Laurence
Anti-Racism In Action PDF icon View Presentation (1.55 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 Asher Greenberg
Kate Stephenson
Andrew Webster
Beyond the Building: Climate Justice and the Solidarity Economy PDF icon View Presentation (4.32 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 Declan Keefe
Beyond the Data: The Humanity of Radical, Regenerative Retrofits PDF icon View Presentation (5.91 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 Carri Beer
Catherine Rosas
Blighted Site to Thriving Community: High-Performance Buildings for a Healthy Neighborhood PDF icon View Presentation (9.05 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 Bill Boehm
Spencer Buchholz
Paul Eddowes
Corey Heaslip
Christopher Thompson
Breaking the Design Bubble: Community Engagement and an Inclusive Process PDF icon View Presentation (7.55 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 Laura Bailey
Heather Ferrell
Building Material Reuse: The Time for Circularity Is Here! PDF icon View Presentation (4.5 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 Olivia Huang
Michael Orbank
Building Momentum: Lessons from the Field of Decarbonization Retrofits in Boston PDF icon View Presentation (8.63 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 Christina McPike
Caitlin Robillard
Kristen Simmons
Brooks Winner
Joel Wool
Carbon in the Landscape: A New Frontier in the Whole-Carbon Approach PDF icon View Presentation (4.37 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 Sebastian Gutwein
Jim Newman
Change Agents: This Is What Community Looks Like PDF icon View Presentation (1.22 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 Gina Cruz Taveras
Meredith Elbaum
Michael Gryniuk
Rand Lemley
Jim Newman
Creating Harmony: Overcoming Challenges in Passive House Multifamily Design PDF icon View Presentation (9.02 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 Nicole Schuster
Andrew van Roo
Decarb Do No Harm: Applying the Hippocratic Oath to Existing Buildings PDF icon View Presentation (4.71 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 Sara Kudra
Rand Lemley
Ilene Mason
Exterior Wall Insulation: Don’t Eat Your Sweater! PDF icon View Presentation (6.67 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 Peter Baker
Kohta Ueno
Getting a Phius Project to the Phinish Line: What You Need to Know PDF icon View Presentation (8.07 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 Michael Browne
Greg Downing
Jeff Geisinger
Grid-Interactive Solutions for Sustainable Electrification PDF icon View Presentation (2.94 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 Joseph Bliss
Charles Lovejoy
Joey Redmond
Ellen Richer
Christopher Till
Historic Buildings, Modern Solutions: Decarbonization Strategies for Multifamily Landmarks PDF icon View Presentation (8.43 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 Ryan Esparza
Dylan Martello
Crystal Ng
In the Last Analysis: An Electrified Town Garage for the 21st Century PDF icon View Presentation (5.04 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 Andy Shapiro
Just Do This! Proven Details and Strategies for Simple High Performance Homes PDF icon View Presentation (9.56 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 Stephen DeMetrick
Keynote Follow-Up: Models of Collective Impact PDF icon View Presentation (3.17 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 Andrew Himes
Lori Ferriss
Julie Janiski
Michelle Lambert
Nadav Malin
Keynote — Carbon (R)Evolution: Collective Impact and Decarbonization in the Building Industry PDF icon View Presentation (1.96 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 Andrew Himes
Keynote — From Silos to Synergy: Toward Inclusion and Thriving Communities PDF icon View Presentation (7.51 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 Laura Bailey
Heather Ferrell
Low-Carbon Envelopes: Insights from Moisture Data in Biogenic Material Walls PDF icon View Presentation (8.59 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 Diana Andrea Brito Picciotto
Christopher Nielson
Modular Multifamily Passive House: Design, Build, and Verify PDF icon View Presentation (9.15 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 Stuart Lachs
Anthony Lisanti
John Loercher
Moving Beyond: Leveraging Moral Imagination to Accelerate Systems Change PDF icon View Presentation (3.47 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 Melissa O'Mara
Kevin Stack
Moving the Needle on ADU Policy and Production PDF icon View Presentation (3.82 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 Greg Bossie
Katie Faulkner
Hilary Gove
Chris Lee
Parlin Meyer
Open Source: Sharing Climate Knowledge for Speed, Scale and Inclusion PDF icon View Presentation (9.32 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 Sara Kudra
Curt Newton
Refrigerants: Rethinking their Role in Electrification PDF icon View Presentation (2.09 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 Neil Donnelly
Maciej Konieczny
JS Rancourt
Tom Secondo
Regenerative Economics for Regenerative Times PDF icon View Presentation (8.63 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 Zbingniew Grabowski
Michael Hindle
Gus Dunn-Hindle
RESNET Standard 1550: Embodied Carbon Comes of Age PDF icon View Presentation (3.82 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 Chris Magwood
Roadmap to Scaling: Best Practices from CO2 Heat Pump Water Heater System Pilots PDF icon View Presentation (3.01 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 Charlie Simek
Neil Donnelly
Scale Up/Carbon Down: A Regenerative Approach to the Housing and Climate Crises PDF icon View Presentation (4.95 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 Andrew Frederick
Alan Gibson
Scaling Embodied Carbon Through Building Codes PDF icon View Presentation (5.53 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 Ariel Brenner
Andy Buccino
Scaling Mass Timber Construction in Dense Urban Environments: Three Not-So-Little Projects PDF icon View Presentation (8.86 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 Floris Keverling Buisman
Brent Buck
Andrew Ruff
Slashing Upfront Embodied Carbon: How to Replicate Success PDF icon View Presentation (6.36 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 Jim Carreira
Beverly Craig
Meredith Elbaum
Caroline Murray
The Curb-Cut Effect: Practical Tools for Engaging Neurodiverse Project Teams PDF icon View Presentation (1.16 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 Miriam Aylward
Mel Houser
Kai Fast
The Materials Revolution PDF icon View Presentation (7.38 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 James Kitchin
Chris Magwood
Ace McArleton
Jonsara Ruth
Three Routes to Work: Recruiting, Retaining and Upskilling Our Workforce PDF icon View Presentation (4.61 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 Chase Macpherson
Brendan Ryan
Andy Winslow
What's Old is New Again: Renewing Historic Enclosures for Modern Performance PDF icon View Presentation (8.87 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 Justin Dufresne
Thomas Haskell
Working Smarter Not Harder: The Power of Teamwork in Multifamily PH Projects PDF icon View Presentation (5.36 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 Michelle Apigian
Moses Cordeiro
James Petersen
Zoe Weinrobe
Ashley Wisse

 

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