Each 90-minute track session receives 1.5 continuing education units from the following professional organizations: AIA, BPI, GBCI, InterNACHI, NAHB, and NARI. To receive your credits, you must sign in at the beginning of each session
Track Chairs: Heather Nolen, Steven Winter Associates; F.L. Andrew Padian, The Community Preservation Corporation
Large Multifamily Boilers: How to Understand and Manage
Session 1: Wednesday, March 6, 11:00am-12:30pm
Session Chair: Jordan Bonomo, Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation
Session Speakers: Dan Rieber, Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation; Tom Sahagian, Enterprise Community Partners
Description: Large Multifamily Boilers can be intimidating, this session will explore large boilers, when to replace, how to update existing boilers to be more energy efficient and what controls make sense.
By the Numbers: Energy Data in MF Rehab/Retrofit
Session 2: Wednesday, March 6, 2:00pm-3:30pm
Session Chair: Sylvia Clark, Stonecipher and Clark Environmental Solutions, LLC
Session Speakers: Mary Jane Poynter, Vermont Energy Investment Corporation; Jason Block, Steven Winter Associates Inc.; D. Dickinson Henry, The Jordan Institute; Eric Gardner, New Ecology
Description: By the numbers: Energy hog or skinny cow? This hand-picked panel will discuss total energy use in multifamily buildings including existing buildings and those that have undergone energy retrofits. Speakers will provide data from NH, MA, VT and NY projects including benchmarking numbers, actual savings realized by multifamily buildings and retrofit cost data.
Blower Door Use in Multifamily (MF) Buildings
Session 3: Wednesday, March 6, 4:00pm-5:30pm
Session Chair: Andrew D’Agostino, The Community Preservation Corporation
Session Speakers: Tom Vitale, En-Tech Associates, Inc. and Brody Vance, Franklin Energy Services
Description: Two distinct methods for employing blower doors in multifamily buildings exist: one involving multiple doors and many staff members supporting a building-wide whole building tightness test before and after; the second involving individually pre and post-testing apartments and individually airsealing them. Learn the tips and tricks of both methods from these seasoned field professionals.
Multifamily Rehab: LEED, WAP, and DER
Session 4: Thursday, March 7, 8:30am-10:00am
Session Chair: Alison Keay, The Jordan Institute
Session Speakers: Darien Crimmin, WinnCompanies; William Zoeller, Steven Winter Associates Inc.; F.L. Andrew Padian, The Community Preservation Corporation
Description: This session will explore three distinct styles of affordable housing retrofit for durability, efficiency, and comfort. The first will be a deep energy retrofit of a large Boston MF property. The second, a LEED retrofit of a CT Housing Authority building and the third, a standard weatherization retrofit of a housing authority complex in upstate NY. Presenters will discuss the pre- and post-energy usage in comparison to the projections, and why they succeeded or failed.
PartnerPREP: Portfolio-wide Energy Management for Affordable Housing
Session 5: Thursday, March 7, 10:30am-12:00pm
Session Chair: Erica Suarino, Steven Winter Associates Inc
Session Speakers: Bomee Jung and Brian Cheigh, Enterprise Community Partners, NYC Office
Description: Enterprise, a national leader in greening affordable housing, launched a program in NYC that attempts to move the market to a new portfolio-based model of energy management. The PartnerPREP program focuses on building the capacity within affordable housing organizations to establish and attain ambitious portfolio-wide energy management goals. This program bridges the need for simplification and coordination for the housing owners while cultivating a pipeline of retrofit, preventative maintenance, and training opportunities for energy efficiency vendors.
Combining building science expertise with an asset management focus, the program supports affordable housing owners and managers to become highly effective energy stewards of their portfolios. Over a two-year engagement, Enterprise analyzes the energy performance of a portfolio; develops a customized long-term energy management plan for the portfolio as a whole and for specific properties with high savings opportunity; helps build organizational capacity for operational improvements and portfolio-wide capital planning; and identifies financial opportunities and incentives to implement energy efficiency improvements.
This session will examine the Enterprise’s successes (and failures!) through a deep dive of one of our engagements.
Combined Heat and Power (CHP) for Multifamily Buildings
Session 6: Thursday March 7, 2:00pm-3:30pm
Session Chair: Heather Nolen, Steven Winter Associates
Session Speakers: Michael Bobker, Building Performance Lab, CUNY Institute for Urban Systems; Les Bluestone, Blue Sea Development Company, LLC; Lee Vardakas, Aegis Energy Services Inc.
Description: Want to know how well CHP works in multifamily buildings? Listen to owner/developers, experts and CHP technicians explain the ins and outs of how CHP works and why it works well in multifamily buildings. Speakers have years of experience operating CHPs in their buildings and will share why they chose it and how it has worked for their building.
Closing Forum: What will be the hot topics at BE25?
Session 7: Thursday March 7, 4:00pm-5:30pm
Session Chair: Paul Eldrenkamp
Session Speakers: TBA
Description: The final session of the day will wrap up everything we learned at BE13 by forcing us to think out loud about where all our new-gained knowledge is taking us. The format: Six NESEA thought leaders will work within the pecha kucha framework to offer their predictions regarding what we’ll be grappling with in the sessions and workshops at Building Energy in March, 2025. This will followed by a period of quick-paced audience discussion. The 90 minutes will then wrap with a compelling preview of NESEA, 12 years hence. This closing session will offer an engaged response to the too-rarely asked question: “Just where are we going with all of this?“
