BuildingEnergy Presentations

BuildingEnergy Presentations

Please find below the available presentations for BE12 and BE11. We are working on getting our full archive on here soon. If you have any questions about the content, please contact us!

BuildingEnergy12 – 2012 Conference Presentations

360 Degrees of Multi-Family
Bernice Radle, Buffalo Energy (PDF)

Central Plant Energy Source: How Do I Decide?
Christine McKiernan, Bioferm Energy Systems, Viessmann Group (PDF)

Clean Energy Advancing in the Northeast
Bryan Garcia, Clean Energy Finance and Investment Co. (PDF)
Meg Lusardi, MA Dept. of Energy Resources (PDF)

Creating a Zero Net Energy Building in a Historic Shell
Kimberley Quirk, The Energy Emporium (PDF)

Deep Energy Retrofits: Exterior Cladding Research and Case Study
Peter Baker, Building Science Corporation (PDF)

Energy Modeling: Stop Wasting Your Time
Michael Blasnik, Michael Blasnik Associates (PDF)

Energy Performance of Natural Buildings
Ace McArleton & Jacob Deva Racusin, New Frameworks Natural Building (PDF)

Financing Renewable Energy Resource Projects
DeWitt Jones, Boston Community Capital (PDF)
Sara Ross, Sungage, LLC (PDF)

Finding the Right MPG for Existing Homes
Ian Finlayson, MA Dept. of Energy Resources (PDF)

From Past to Future: The Green Mill Renovation
Thomas Hartman, Coldham & Hartman Architects (PDF)
Mike Schofield, Conservation Services Group (PDF)

High Performance Hybrid Wall Systems
Aaron Grin, Building Science Corporation (PDF)

Home Heating: Condensing Boilers and Tankless Water Heaters
Lois Arena, Steven Winter Associates (PDF)

How Renewable Heating Can Become New England’s Next Major Cleantech Growth Market
Charlie Niebling, New England Wood Pellet (PDF)
Laura Richardson, NH Office of Energy and Planning (PDF)
Neil Veilleux, Meister Consultants Group (PDF)

New Construction: Success Stories and Lessons Learned
Steve Bluestone, The Bluestone Organization (PDF)

Occupants and Users: The Under-Recognized Influence on Success or Failure to Campus Resource Consumption and Costs
Susan Pranger, AIA (PDF)
Dallase Scott, GreenerU (PDF)

Project Innovation and Renewable Heating in the Northeast
Jake Goodyear, Sandri Renewable Energy (PDF)
Debra Hall, MA Department of Housing and Community Development (PDF)

Showdown at the Seaport: Health Care Ventilation and Radiant/Induction Cooling
Edward Allen & Robert Rutowski, van Zelm Engineers (PDF)

Smart Grid Update: Where We Stand
Roddy Diotalevi, The United Illuminating Company (PDF)

Student Dorms as Passive House: Case Studies from Very Energy Efficient Large Scale Buildings
Peter Engelmann, Fraunhofer CSE (PDF)

The Emerging DER Baseline in the Boston Metro Area
Brian Butler, Boston Green Building (PDF)
David Connelly Legg, Independent Consultant (PDF)

The Future of Natural Gas
Michael Aucott, Independent Consultant (PDF)
Fred Unger, Heartwood Group (PDF)

The New All-Electric Home
Robb Aldrich, Steven Winters Associates (PDF)
Andrew Webster, Coldham & Hartman Architects (PDF)

The State of Affordable Housing
Martin Dunn, Dunn Development (PDF)
Andrew Giglio, Community Preservation Corporation (PDF)

Sustainable Campuses/Sustainable Communities
Benjamin Carlson, Goody Clancy & Kim Miller, Drexel University (PDF)

What To Do With Steam?
Jonathan Flothow, Steam Balancing Company (PDF)

BuildingEnergy11 – 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

Cross Cutting Technologies in Renewables: Grid Connected Renewables, Grid
Control Through Inverters and Other High Speed Power Electronics

Leo Casey

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