2011 Conference Presentations
A Vermont Roadmap to a Zero-Carbon Building Sector by 2050
Blair Hamilton
Air-to-Water Heat Pump Hydronic System with Inverter Driven Compressor: And Eco-Friendly Solution for Low Energy Homes
Lance Dyer
An Effective State Policy for Clean, Efficient Energy: Massachusetts APS for Combined Heat & Power (CHP)
John Ballam
Avoiding High-GWP Insulation
Alex Wilson
Balancing the Investment: Enclosure, Mechanicals, Renewables
Katrin Klingenberg
Biomass & Climate Change
Alan Nogee
Biomass and Climate Change: The Massachusetts Example
Sue Reid
Biomass Policy Development in Massachusetts: RPS Rulemaking
Dwayne Breger
Building Energy Labeling: The Next Frontier for Energy Efficiency in Existing Buildings?
Sean Penrith
Building Labeling Initiatives in Massachusetts
Yaara Grinberg
Burning Questions About Boilers: High Performance Boilers and Boiler Controls
Bart Bales
Cohousing: Has it Proven to be Sustainable?
Laura Fitch
Comfort by Design: An Introduction to HVAC's Variable Refrigerant Flow (VRF) Technology
Nick Conklin
Commonwealth Solar Hot Water Rebate Program
Carter Wall
Commonwealth Wind Community Scale Program: Support for Project Development
Martha Broad
Concrete, Steel and Glass; Thermal Bridges, Gains & Losses: Will They Deep Six Your Project?
Jim D'Aloisio & Russ Miller-Johnson
Cool Green Building Products from BuildingGreen 2011
Brent Ehrlich
Densepack Applications: Retrofitting Vaults and Flat Roofs in Cold Climates
F.L. Andrew Padian
Distributed Biomass Gasification Combined Heat and Power (BGCHP) Generation
Shashank Nadgauda
Doing More With Less: The WaterSense Label for New Homes
Lynn Gilleland
Efficient Homes with Minimal HVAC
Robb Aldrich
Energy Use Data: Tracking Residential Energy Performance
Nick Taylor
Enterprise Energy Management System for State Facilities (EEMS)
Eric Friedman
Extremely High Performance Homes . . . A Few Years On: Measuring Energy Use
Michael Duclos
Extremely High Performance Houses . . . A Few Years On
Bruce Coldham
Getting a Community to Embrace Wind Energy
Megan Amsler
Green & Healthy Property Management
Darien Crimmin
Green and Healthy Property Management
Ellen Tohn
Green School Solutions for the Northeast
Susy Jones & Carolyn Sarno
Greening Massachusetts Public Housing: DHCD Sustainability Initiative
Debra Hall
Heating with Renewable Refined Fuel from the Forest
Dr. William Strauss
High Design & High Performance
Stephanie Horowitz & Jordan Goldman
HIgh Performance Boilers for Existing and New Buildings and Facilities
Roger S. Harris
High Performance Production Homes
Rob Meyers
How Green Building Credit and Prerequisites are Verified On Site
William D'Arrigo
Introduction to State-of-the-Art Commercial Scale Wood Pellet & Wood Chip Boiler Systems
David Dungate
LEED for Homes On-Site Verification and Good Documentation
Jay Waterman
LEED for Homes: The Value of Site Verification
Mark Price
Leveraging Audits to Spur Long Term Green & Healthy Property Management Actions
Liz Eisenberg
Low-Energy Campus Buildings
Jason Forney
Making RPS Goals
Jason Gifford
Manomet & Biomass: Moving Beyond the Sound Bite
Tom Walker
Meeting Massachusetts RPS Goals
Howard Bernstein
Monitored Results from Fairview 2: January 2010 - December 2010
Duncan Prahl
Monitored Results from Four Houses in Martha's Vineyard: November 2010 - January 2011
David Stecher
Multi-Family Retrofits: Cutting Energy Costs in Multi-family Buildings
Bernice Radle
Multifamily Financing for Retrofit
Sadie McKeown
Navigating Policy and Programs for Energy Efficiency
Christina Halfpenny
Necessity is the Mother
Dorian Dale
Net Zero Occupants
John Straub
New Technology Investment Strategy
Kim Stevenson
New York State: Planning for Climate Action
John Williams
Next Generation Tablets for Data Collection in the Field
Tom Spielman
Notes From the Field: Small Wind Can Effectively Produce Clean Distributed Energy and Be a Positive Experience
Gary Harcourt
Nyle Heat Pump Water Heaters
Doug Henion
Optimizing Existing Building Performance: Energy Audits at Harvard University
Kevin Bright
Powering Your Future with Wind
Kevin Schulte
Putney Field House: Net-Zero Design and Performance
Bill Maclay, Andy Shapiro & Dan Lewis
PV Development Today
Paul Lyons
PV Development Today: Rapid Growth but Facing New Challenges
Daniel Leary
Renewable Market Explosion
James Dunn
Residential Solar Thermal Systems
Robb Aldrich
Roof Insulation Solutions for Framed Flat Roofs
Michael Blasnik & Jim Fitzgerald
Saving Energy and Water with WaterSense for New Homes
Gunnar Baldwin
Speeding the Audit and Rating Processes: Rethinking What Data We Really Need
Michael Blasnik
SRECs: Propelling the Orderly Deployment of PV Systems
Dwayne Breger
Structure and Role of Incentive Programs in Small Wind
Peter McPhee
Sustainability, Real Estate, Rationale
Charlotte Matthews
The Box Office
Peter Case & Joe Haskett
The Future of PACE: The Path Ahead for Local Finance Projects
Sadie McKeown, Stephen Burrington
The Intersection of Data & Finance
Sam Marks
The ZNE Early Design Process and the Cx & Re-Cz Process: The Necessary Bookends of Any Great Building Project
Maggie McCarey & Mark Walsh-Cooke
There's an App for That!
Lester Shen
There's Something New in the Air
David Hurwitt
Toward Carbon Neutral & Zero Net Campus Buildings
Ellen Watts
Toward Carbon Neutral and Zero Net Energy Campus Buildings
Sam Mason
Using Biomass to Create a Sustainable Agricultural and Renewable Energy Industry
Michael Garjian
Using Building Commissioning to Evaluate System Performance
Mark F. Warren & Scott P. Calisti
What's Happening in Saxony and Upper Austria?
Andy Shapiro, Chris Benedict, Paul Eldrenkamp, Thomas Hartman
Why So Much Glass?
Chris Schaffner
Wind Power Technology for Buildings & Community Applications
Alfred Weisbrich