Building Energy 2001
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Building Energy 2001 |
Building Energy 2001 featured over 100 speakers who addressed issues ranging from offshore wind to the fundamental details of residential construction. The chart below outlines all of the sessions and speakers at the conference. For more information on the speakers, please follow this link to Speaker Contact Information. Here you will find the affiliation of each speaker as well as his/her email address.
Following this chart are the proceedings from some of the sessions at Building Energy 2001. Although these proceedings cannot replace the invaluable experience of hearing these speakers in person, they will give you an introduction to the issues addressed at the conference.
| Track |
Quality Residential Construction |
The Greening of Facilities | Products & Services | Clean Energy Technologies | Solar Energy | Renewable Energy Policies & Outreach |
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| 8:30-10:00 |
Plenary Speech |
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| 10:30-12:00 |
Best Practices & Fundamental Details Thomas RC Hartman, Paul Eldrenkamp, Peter Taggart |
The Whole Building |
The Northeast's Renewable Potential Steven L. Clemmer, Michael Brower, Jeff Fehrs, Richard Perez |
Solar Electric Buildings
Steven E. Letendre, Ingo Hagemann, Steven Strong |
Developing Brownfields Sustainably Joel Rubin, Richard Hays, Christy Herig, John Schnebly |
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| 12:00-2:00 | Lunch | |||||
| 2:00-3:30 |
High Performance Housing on a Budget William Zoeller, Marc Sternick |
The Greening of Institutional Facilities
Bart Bales, John Civilinski, Jonathan Goldberg, Walter Simpson |
What's New In
Green Building Products
Alex Wilson, Nadav Malin, Peter Yost |
Commercial Fuel Cells |
Solar Domestic Hot Water
Programs
Drew Gillett, Joseph Dolengo, Robert O. Smith, Nicole Robillard Wobus |
State Renewable Energy Funds: A Progress Report Gregory C Watson, John V. Anderson, Jeffrey Peterson, Kate Ringe-Welch |
| The
Natural Step
Beth Tener, Paul Lipke |
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| 4:00-5:30 | Bill
Lam on Daylighting
Bruce Coldham, William Lam
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Institutions Driving the Market: From Ideas to Action Sarah Hammond Creighton, Elizabeth Istenstein, Steve MacAusland |
Energy Simulation
Software
John Boehs, Tanmay Tathagat, Bill Bobenhausen
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Small-Scale Fuel Cells
David Jacobson, Gene Connelly, Glenn Doell, H Frank Gibbard |
Sustaining the PV Industry: A Round Table
Jane Weissman, Moneer Azzam, William M Kanzer, Richard Michaud, Leigh Seddon, Michael Tennis |
Making
the Connection Between Global Warming and the Need for Renewables
Charlene Garland, Lynn E. Rosoff, George Woodwell |
| Track | Quality Residential Construction | The Greening of Facilities | Products and Services | Clean Energy Technologies | Solar | Renewable Energy Policies & Outreach |
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| 8:30-10:00 | Individual
Environmental Impacts
Mary Kraus, William Rees, Warren Leon |
Important
Components of a Green Building
Steven Winter, John Amatruda |
Cellulose Insulation
Thomas RC Hartman, Chris Hoch, Tony Walker |
Biopower Projects
Joel N. Gordes, Lawrence Golden, Mark Paisley, Stanley C. Rosenberg, Edward R. Terceiro |
Residential Solar Rooftops
Courtney Miller, Steve Coonen, Richard Gottlieb, Ted Vansant |
How to Aggregate Green
Power Buyers
Larry Chretien, Robert A. Maddox Jr., Scott Ridley, Russell Sylva |
| Wave Energy Technology &
Potential
Subhash Chandra, George Hagerman, Jean Mead, Tom Thorpe |
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| 10:30-12:00 | Residential
Green Building Programs
Jim Vann, Richard Faesy, Peter Yost |
Optimizing
Ventilation
John Boehs, David W Bearg, Mark Walsh Cooke |
Sourcing Green
Materials
Fred Ploeger, Eric Friedman, Thomas RC Hartman |
Distributed Energy for
Improved Power Reliability & Quality
Michael Tennis, Gerard Allen, Stan Blazewicz, William E. Cratty, Steve May |
Building Integrated
Photovoltaics
Clark Abt, Gregory Kiss, Quincy Vale, Paul Wormser |
Model Strategies for
Educating the Public on Renewable Energy
Richard Asinof, John Anderson, Nancy Nylen |
| Designing
High Performance Buildings
Barbara Batshalom, William G. Reed, Jim Toothaker |
Learning
from California's Energy Crisis
Ed Smeloff, Richard Hays, Elaine Hebert |
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| 12:00-2:00 | Lunch | |||||
| 2:00-3:30 | Residential Woodlot Management
Jim Vann, David Kittredge |
Renovating
Buildings
Chris Benedict, Christine Bruncati |
Bringing Products to the Market
Jamie Wolf, Moneer Azzam, Paul Raymer |
Developing Wind
Projects
Nils Bolgen, Harley Lee, Dale Osborn, Bill Moore |
Solar for Urban
Housing
Trish Settles, Thomas W. Thompson |
Ensuring
Renewable Portfolio
Standards Work
Alan Nogee, Bob Grace, Kevin Porter |
| 4:00-5:30 | Beyond the Master Plan:
Zoning, Regulatory and Development Approaches that Work
John Abrams, Fred Unger, Mark Bobrowski, Joel Russell |
Greening the Building
Boom: Sustainable Planning for Boston
Henry MacLean, Sarah James, Richard Kennelly |
Comparative Solar
Technologies
Drew Gillett, Bruce R. Brownell, Michael Dorgan, Richard Eidlin |
Off-Shore Wind
Development
James Manwell, Joe Beurskens, Brian Braginton-Smith, William Stillinger |
Municipal Solar Projects Ross Donald, Albert Benson, Ira Krepchin, Steve Pitney | The
Potential for Green
Power Marketing Ed Holt, Steven L. Cowell, Carrie Cullen Hitt |
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7:00-9:00 |
Evening Slide Show: European Green Building Tour | |||||
Most of the proceedings are available as either word documents (rich text files) or webpages but some are saved as Adobe Acrobat PDF files.. You must have the reader available from Adobe Acrobat to view PDFs. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat reader please click on the Adobe Acrobat logo below to download the free reader. All power point presentations have been saved here as webpages. The larger ones may take a few minutes to open up, depending on your internet connection. All proceedings submissions open in a separate window so just close that window when you are finished to return here.
Moneer Azzam Introducing Photovoltaics to the Marketplace: A challenge
John Byrne and Gerard Alleng Photovoltaics and Distributed Power: A case for Improved Reliability and Quality
Peter
Champoux Placemaking
at Tufts University 
Using such tools as sacred geometry, ley alignments and geometric framing, one gains a better understanding of the power inherent in place. These tools can be applied in scale from home to continent. Through analyses of the interrelationships of these components of place, the individual, institution or country can link fundamentally to their landscape and culture.
Mark Walsh Cooke
Displacement Ventilation
This presentation focused on providing adequate ventilation to building
occupants using the minimum amount of energy. Adequate ventilation is important
because it is a basic requirement for achieving good indoor air quality. Mark
Walsh Cooke addressed ventilation effectiveness and
displacement ventilation. Displacement ventilation delivers air from under floor
or low mounted supplies at low velocities. The benefits of displacement
ventilation are reduced fan energy consumption and improved ventilation
effectiveness. Cooke’s talk covered the
performance benefits of displacement ventilation, issues to implementation, and
project case studies.
Reprints of Mark Walsh-Cooke's presentation can be obtained only via email. Please send requests for reprints to john.boehs@arup.com Please include name and mailing address.
Larry Chretien Communities going solar: Newton Sunergy
Newton has a goal of installing 500 residential and commercial photovoltaic systems by the year 2010.
Jeff Curry Solar Hot Water: Distributed generation for the residential unit
Lakeland Electric and domestic solar hot water
Glenn Doell Small
Scale Fuel Cells
Drivers for Energy Technology
Dais-Analytic
Technology Platform
Products and Timing
Jonathan Goldberg The Greening of Institutional Facilities: Successfully introducing green technologies and practices into existing institutions
Lawrence J. Golden Siting new Biomass plants: Lessons learned from the past
Ten years ago two wood-to-energy plants proposed to be constructed in Connecticut were in the midst of protracted permitting hearings. Together, these plants were to have provided 45 megawatts of indigenous, renewable energy to the regional grid, reduced deliveries of wood waste to landfills and established a marketfor silvicultural harvests. The plants were never built. This paper will describe what happened and why.
Robert Grace Renewable Portfolio Standards in the Northeast
The Green Grand Tour of European Buildings Slide Show
For more information on this slide show that was presented on Friday night of the conference please visit the Coldham Architects website and click on the "Green Grand Tour" link.
Ingo Hagemann Building
Integrated Photovoltaics: New Developments and Trends in Europe
Photovoltaic
technology (PV) is today a popular part of the building vocabulary. It can be
used on both existing and new buildings. Its use in the building envelope is
very varied and open ways for creative designers. In particular semitransparent
photovoltaic glass modules can be changed into a truly multifunctional building
component which is able to serve in addition to an electricity production other
functions of the building envelope as well.
George Hagerman
Southern
New England Wave Energy Resource Assessment
This paper presents a preliminary wave energy resource assessment for southern New England. The database for this “first look” includes 36 grid points (in the latitude band 40 to 43.5 deg N) for which the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has conducted a 20-year numerical “hindcast” (from 1976 through 1995) as part of its Wave Information Study (WIS). The WIS hindcast represents a consistently generated database over the typical life of a wave power plant and provides much denser coverage over a longer time period than existing wave measurement stations. The results of this study are presented as a series of plots mapping the average wave power density (in kilowatts per meter of wave crest width), the 100-year significant wave height (which represents the extreme storm hazard), and a wave energy development index that divides annual average wave power density by the 100-year wave height, which is a rough indicator of site economic potential for wave energy development.
Elaine Hebert Learning from California's Electricity Crisis
The problem will get worse, and blackouts this summer appear inevitable," said [Energy Secretary Spencer] Abraham. He projected that peak demand for electricity this summer will outpace supply in California by 5,000 megawatts.
Mark Kelley A Whole Building Rubric
William Lam Sunlighting as Formgivers for Architecture
From what I see being built today, I wonder if most of you here today would agree that, particularly in North America, we have hardly begun to take advantage of the energy saving potential of exploiting daylight. Now that the California crisis has begun to create renewed interest in energy conservation , I believe that SUNLIGHTING and good energy design can regain a higher priority, if we create delightful as well as energy efficient buildings.Warren Leon Your
Most Important Environmental Choices
Paper or plastic? Minivan or station wagon? Cloth diapers or disposables? The
choices Americans make at home shape the environment. But it is hard to know
which of the hundreds of household decisions are important and which are
insignificant. Michael Brower and I wrote The
Consumer’s Guide to Effective Environmental Choices
(Three Rivers Press, 1999) to help people set personal environmental
priorities and distinguish meaningful choices from trivial ones.
Harley Lee Developing Wind projects in the Northeast
Unique Challenges:
Henry
MacLean Restoration
of a Traditional City: Boston in the 21st Century
Traditionally,
growth comes at a time when we have pushed the limits and there is nowhere else
to go. Boston is a place where traditionally limits have been
broken. Henry covers the history of this expanding city and discusses the
patterns inherent in the landscape. He also describes models that
demonstrate cutting edge sustainable architecture and landscape design.
Art Mannion Distributed Energy for Improved Power Reliability and Quality: Powering Mission Critical Enterprises.
Fred Ploeger Sourcing
Green Materials
To provide information and perspectives on finding and
purchasing green materials for commercial construction. This session discussed the roles of Purchasing Agent and Architect in implementing
various material selections. The proceedings provide information
on suppliers including regional wood sources and how to find the materials you
are looking for.
Richard Perez Meeting Peak Demand with Photovoltaics
Common misconceptions about PV in the Northeast:
No Sun
No Space
No Reliability
Too Expensive
Kevin Porter Ensuring Renewable Portfolio Standards Work
Renewable Portfolio standards exist now in 12 states and state RPS’ in place today could have a sizable impact on renewable energy supply & demand. Most significant: Texas, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Wisconsin, New Jersey.
Paul
H. Raymer
Developing
a Product and Bringing It to Market
“Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a
path to your door.” Why
would anyone need to build a better mousetrap?
Is the world being overrun with mice?
Do the existing mousetrapping approaches not work? What’s wrong with them?
Developing a product is full of questions like these. Determining the right set of questions and following them with the right set of answers is the key to developing a successful product. What does “successful” mean? In terms of this discussion, “successful” will be taken to mean that the product solves the problem that it was designed to solve, and in doing so, is accepted by the market.
William
Rees
The
Built Environment and the Ecosphere: A Global Perspective
The human population is rapidly
urbanizing, leading many observers to conclude that humans are leaving nature
and the countryside behind. This is
a perceptual error consistent with the technological optimism inherent in the
prevailing expansionist cultural worldview.
By contrast, ecological analysis reveals that modern cities are actually
increasingly dependent the on the goods and services of nature.
Scott Ridley Community Aggregation and Green Power
Nicole Robillard Wobus Massachusetts Energy Consumers Alliance: Solar Water Heating Pilot Program
Program Goals and Objectives:
John H. Scofield 1st
year analysis of Oberlin College's Adam Joseph Lewis Center
Photovoltaic Array
AJLC Annual energy use
Comparison with conventional buildings
Detailed look at AJLC HVAC systems
DOE2 simulations
Russ Sylva Green Power Aggregation
Tom Thorpe Wave Energy Potential
The potential for extracting useful energy from waves has been studied for some considerable time. This paper outlines some of the history of wave energy, before proceeding to portray the revolution in wave energy technology that has occurred in the last five years. The main devices currently under development will be described, together with the effect of these developments on electricity generating costs. The paper closes by reviewing the environmental impacts of wave energy and estimating the commercial potential of this resources
"Current status and developments" paper
James Toothaker Building Green in Pennsylvania
High Performance Green Building Goals:
Alex Wilson Keynote address
Fortunately for you, I don’t often get a chance to spout off about the big-picture stuff. I sit in my little office in a restored, 150-year-old, industrial building in Vermont and write about very specific green building strategies. I focus mostly on useful stuff that you can use today in creating buildings that do less damage to the environment. But being asked to speak here this morning provided an opportunity to look beyond the trees at the forest—an opportunity to wave my arms a little. Just where are we in the sustainable building movement? What are the prospects with a new Administration? Where is green building headed?