Upcoming NESEA Events

The BuildingEnergy NYC 2026 Content Committee will be meeting to discuss conference session proposals and select finalists for more detailed review.

Join NESEA for our first Pro Tour of the year! We will be touring two six-story, 100% low-income buildings in Boston's South End, both currently undergoing an ambitious deep energy retrofit and electrification (VRF and AWHP, + central ERV), with residents in place.

Keep the energy and conversations from BuildingEnergy Boston 2026 going! Join us on May 19th for a networking happy hour with the conference leadership team, selected speakers, and fellow attendees.

Join NESEA for a Pro Tour of a new construction, custom single-family home in Sherborn, Massachusetts, designed to minimize embodied carbon, maximize operational efficiency, support healthy indoor air quality, and mitigate negative impacts to the immediate watershed, all while providing a beautiful and functional space tailored to the client’s lifestyle.

The BuildingEnergy NYC 2026 Content Committee will be meeting to make final decisions about this year's conference session lineup. This meeting is private, open only to the NESEA Member-volunteers serving on this year's committee.

Join us for a Pro Tour of a resilient new development that will be created on Salem Neck, located between Collin's Cove and Salem Harbor, in Salem MA. The site will include one building with 124 sustainable and affordable homes, amenity spaces, and a publicly accessible park. The building will be all-electric, Passive House certified with an envelope, systems, and solar panels that reduce…

Every year, the NESEA community comes together to create a vision for the BuildingEnergy Boston conference, ensuring that its theme and content are timely and relevant for a wide range of building and energy practitioners. This online brainstorming session is a chance for you to help shape next year's event!

Join us in Boston for a Pro Tour of an innovative new school and community facility, located on a tight, one-acre site in Boston’s dense, historic Chinatown. This building is a transformative example of high-performance, sustainable, and inclusive school. Designed to serve 650 students in grades 6-12, this all-electric, LEED Platinum-certified facility replaces outdated buildings with a fully…

Join NESEA for a Pro Tour that demonstrates, at real scale, how high-performance building strategies can directly support both climate goals and housing affordability. We will be touring and learning about a new development in Dorchester that delivers 12 affordable homeownership units across four Passive House–designed, four-unit buildings-the first of their kind in the neighborhood. Among other…

Join NESEA for a Pro Tour of a new, all-electric, 6,000-square-foot nature conservancy headquarters in Southern New Hampshire. This recently completed net-zero energy building demonstrates how high-performance, low-carbon goals can be achieved within a typical nonprofit construction budget when sustainability goals are established early.

On September 4, NESEA returns to Burlington, VT for an in-depth Pro Tour of a new, all-electric high school and tech center. We’ll be visiting a 250,000 square-foot campus and learning from the professionals behind the project how it all came together.

Join NESEA for an in-depth Pro Tour of a redesigned and fiercely independent art center that dates back to 1979 when it became a haven for radical art and radical politics, squatters and hardcore punks. Over the decades, as other downtown spaces went under or were priced out, this space has endured by the skin of its teeth as a link to an old New York that exists mainly in memory. Now, the center…

NESEA returns to New York’s Capital District for a Pro Tour of a new, 3-phase Passive House development project. When complete, this development will total over 200,000 square feet and provide a total of 168 Passive House-certified units, making it one of the largest Phius-certified projects to date.

Join NESEA in Connecticut for a Pro Tour featuring an exciting collaboration between two NESEA Bottom Lines members (Wolfworks and Rare Forms), showcasing a new, single family home, built from straw panels to reduce embodied carbon.

Join NESEA for a Pro Tour where we will learn about Montpelier Vermont's decision to electrify their city garage, which could be a replicable solution for other towns in the Northeast. This is the first building of its kind that NESEA has featured in our Pro Tour program.

Join NESEA for a Pro Tour of an occupied 19th century factory building undergoing a re-renovation and electrification using historic tax credits. There are numerous points of interest in this project, including updating to air-to-water electric heating and cooling with minimized refrigerant distribution.

Join NESEA for a Pro Tour of an innovative Single-family home featuring new wood-frame construction on concrete bond beam over 1892 stone foundation. This interesting project uses wood stove heating with no mechanical cooling, heating the home with mechanical ventilation. An attached greenhouse is a classic passive solar heating element, upgraded with contemporary glazing technology. The…

Join NESEA for a Pro Tour of the landmarked Harlem River Houses, New York City’s first purpose-built public housing development. This development has undergone a thorough and senstive renewal, updating the building for its residents while preserving its historic character. Originally built in 1937, the complex now features electrified heating and cooling systems and other energy-efficient…