BuildingEnergy Boston Conference Sessions - Friday 10:30am
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Meeting the Demands of Healthier Buildings: How to Navigate Building Product Certifications A building or home cannot begin to be deemed healthy if its building blocks – both the material used for exterior construction and the elements used to build and decorate the interior – aren’t... Full Description |
Burroughs |
Single family Commercial & Institutional Health & Wellness |
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Crisis in Cannabis Cultivation: Latest Energy Developments in Data, Practice, and Policy Growing marijuana indoors is extremely energy intensive, and this session highlights the latest efforts to reduce the industry's energy footprint. Attendees will hear from speakers with... Full Description |
Harbor 1 |
Commercial & Institutional Mechanical systems & lighting |
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CANCELLED Field Notes with Terry Brennan: High Performance Solutions in Commercial and Institutional Construction We truly regret having to cancel this session. Terry Brennan is unable to attend. |
Harbor 2 |
Commercial & Institutional Building envelope |
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The Future City: An Integrated Ecosystem The city is an important scale for holistic innovation that can play a major role in global decarbonization. Practitioners can learn to optimize this scale to integrate building-level, streetscape... Full Description |
Harbor 3 |
Cities, Communities, Place Beyond Energy* Health & Wellness |
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Multi-Family, Tenant-in-Place, Passive Rehab: It's Possible! Affordable housing offers a huge opportunity to refinance and rehab to the Passive House standard. The project team from Chris Benedict, R.A. and RiseBoro Community Partnership will show... Full Description |
Marina 1 |
Building envelope Design & Construction process Multifamily |
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Integrative Carbon Building: Embodied Carbon, Net Positive Carbon, and the New Carbon Architecture Our current framework for net-zero buildings doesn’t account for embodied carbon – that is, carbon pollution created during material manufacturing and distribution. In this session, we will show... Full Description |
Marina 2 |
Building envelope Beyond Energy* |
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Retrocommissioning with the Chiefs: Training Operators to Sustain the Process At the core of every successful Retro-Commissioning (RCx) project is an effective collaboration between the commissioning agent and the building's operating staff to identify and implement... Full Description |
Marina 3 |
Commercial & Institutional Mechanical systems & lighting |
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Punching Above Your Weight Class: Exceeding Client Sustainability Requirements within a Tight Budget This team’s contract with a university client for a new student housing project required LEED v4 Silver, a worthwhile goal. But the team wanted to punch up to meet more aggressive sustainability... Full Description |
Marina 4 |
Commercial & Institutional Practice |
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The Magic (Electric) School Bus Massachusetts is at the forefront of transportation technology with a pilot project that put the nation’s first electric school buses on the road at the end of 2016. We’ll hear from the pilot... Full Description |
On the bus - see description for location |
Renewables Cities, Communities, Place |