NESEA Events

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BuildingEnergy Conference BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 Thursday, March 20, 2025 to Friday, March 21, 2025

BuildingEnergy Boston is a conference designed by and for practitioners in the fields of high-performance building and design, energy efficiency, and renewable energy. It brings more than 1,000 industry leaders and emerging professionals together to learn from and share ideas with each other. Sessions are curated by a volunteer NESEA-Member content committee to ensure that conference sessions are genuinely useful to attendees. The conference will feature product demonstrations, networking events, and accredited sessions that offer best practices and lessons learned, case studies and proven... Full Description

BuildingEnergy Planning Meeting BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 Content Committee Meeting #2 Tuesday, December 17, 2024

The BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 Content Committee will be meeting to make final decisions about conference session proposals and begin shaping the 2025 conference session lineup.

BuildingEnergy Pro Tour Pro Tour: Affordable Passive House Midrise in Brooklyn Friday, December 6, 2024

Join NESEA for the final Pro Tour of 2024: a passive house-certified, 185,000 square-foot building, providing 160 units of much-needed affordable housing to the neighborhood of Brownsville, Brooklyn.

BuildingEnergy Pro Tour Pro Tour: Low-Embodied Carbon ADU & Straw Panel Factory Friday, November 22, 2024

You’re invited to a 2-site Pro Tour in Burlington, Vermont! Our hosts, New Frameworks, will be opening both their shop and a project so that attendees can see how their innovative, low-carbon modular projects come together, from factory floor to completed build.

BuildingEnergy Planning Meeting BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 Content Committee Meeting #1 Monday, November 18, 2024

The BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 Content Committee will be meeting to discuss conference session proposals an

BuildingEnergy Pre-Conference Webinar BuildingEnergy NYC Wednesday Webinars: Optimizing Ventilation for Decarbonization Wednesday, November 13, 2024

This session will explore how to revitalize and optimize ventilation systems in existing multi-family buildings in New York to bring older, inefficient, and poorly performing ventilation systems in compliance with today’s standards for energy and indoor air quality. The session will include an overview of available financing and energy efficiency incentives to support these projects.

BuildingEnergy Pro Tour Pro Tour: Award Winning, Panelized Passive House in the Catskills Friday, November 8, 2024

In early November, NESEA will be offering our first Pro Tour in the Catskills, showcasing a new construction single-family passive house with its first years’ of performance data.

BuildingEnergy Open Office Hours BuildingEnergy Boston Conference Chair Office Hours Thursday, October 31, 2024

Thinking of submitting a session proposal for BuildingEnergy Boston 2025, but don't know where to start? Have a question about the conference theme? Have an idea but want a different perspective? Join us for an informal chat with our conference chairs! This is a great opportunity to develop and refine session ideas while the call for proposals is still open.

Annual Meeting 2024 NESEA Annual Meeting Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Join us for the 2024 NESEA Annual Meeting on Wednesday, October 30.

BuildingEnergy Pre-Conference Webinar BuildingEnergy NYC Wednesday Webinars: How CPC Climate Capital Supports New Construction and Retrofits for Clean Energy in Multifamily Housing Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Learn about CPC Climate Capital and how they're financing carbon-reducing work on existing and to-be-built multifamily buildings. CPC Climate Capital, a subsidiary of the Community Preservation Corporation, is part of Climate United, a national coalition of three nonprofits that received $6.97 billion from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to finance carbon-reduction projects nationwide. Of the money awarded to Climate United, CPC Climate Capital received $2.4 billion to execute Climate United's multifamily housing strategy.

BuildingEnergy Conference BuildingEnergy NYC 2024 Thursday, October 24, 2024

NESEA's BuildingEnergy NYC conference and trade show is a chance to immerse yourself in a full day of networking and intensive learning with your peers from the fields of design, construction, engineering, policy, finance, and beyond. This unique event is designed by and for our community of practitioners, ensuring that the content is useful, relevant, and on the leading edge. Conference sessions present best practices and lessons learned based on real case studies and proven data, as well as showcasing innovative technologies and programs. If you are a building sustainability professional... Full Description

BuildingEnergy Pre-Conference Webinar BuildingEnergy NYC Wednesday Webinars: Shaping the Future of Clean and Resilient Design — How Buildings of Excellence (BOE) and Early Design Support Drive Innovation Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Join us for an insightful webinar exploring the synergy between NYSERDA's Buildings of Excellence (BOE) Demonstration and Early Design Support (EDS) programs. Learn about groundbreaking affordable multifamily projects that have received funding from both programs, with a special focus on Passive House certified projects. Discover how these programs are helping shape the future of clean and resilient buildings. Guest speaker Grayson Jordan from "The Beacon" project will share experiences, challenges, and successes in leveraging both BOE and EDS for transformational outcomes.

BuildingEnergy Pre-Conference Webinar BuildingEnergy NYC Wednesday Webinars: Decarbonizing New York — Local Law 97 and LEEDv5 Wednesday, October 9, 2024

Join U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) staff and local experts for a discussion about the next iteration of the LEED green building certification system, LEED v5. USGBC intends to drive the built environment toward a low-carbon future that is equitable and resilient and promotes the wise, safe utilization of all resources. USGBC staff and local experts will guide attendees through the new rating system's structure and explain how to engage in the rating system.

Announcement BuildingEnergy Boston 2025: Call for Proposals Tuesday, October 1, 2024 to Wednesday, November 6, 2024

As NESEA celebrates our 50 year anniversary, this year’s BuildingEnergy Boston conference is all about working together to Build the Movement.

Announcement Now Recruiting: BIPOC-Owned Massachusetts Companies for BuildingEnergy Access Thursday, September 26, 2024 to Saturday, November 9, 2024

Applications are now open for the second cohort of BuildingEnergy Access, a new initiative to support the work of women and minority-owned business enterprises by connecting them with the resources of the NESEA community. In this cohort-based program, business owners receive custom business development services, attend industry events for education and networking, receive marketing opportunities through a spotlight program, and participate in a business-owner peer group to hone their triple bottom lines practices (people, planet, and prosperity).

Announcement Vote in The 2024 NESEA Board Election Thursday, September 26, 2024 to Friday, November 1, 2024

Voting is now open for the 2024 NESEA Board of Directors election! This year, five NESEA Members are running for four open seats on the board. Our membership will elect three individuals and the current Board will then appoint one additional board member.

BuildingEnergy Pro Tour Pro Tour: Net Zero Energy Modular Home & Factory Tour Friday, September 20, 2024

Our thanks go out to our attendees, sponsors, and hosts for making this such a great event.

BuildingEnergy Pro Tour Passive House Rated Historic Renovation in Connecticut Friday, September 6, 2024

Join us for a Pro Tour of a recently renovated historic building in New Haven, CT! During this event, attendees will learn how the project team transformed this building, originally a hotel from 1816, into a Passive House-certified commercial space while preserving its historic facade and place in the community.

BuildingEnergy Pro Tour Phased Construction: Affordable, Supportive Housing Development in Brooklyn Friday, August 23, 2024

Join us for a summer Pro Tour of an integrated, mixed-use, phased development project encompassing nearly a full city block in Brooklyn, NY. We will be touring two completed buildings, which are now dedicated to affordable and supportive housing. This four-building project provides an example of phased construction using common-sense sustainability measures for an underserved population.

BuildingEnergy Pro Tour Pro Tour of Net Zero Energy Retrofit and Expansion of a 1782 Vermont Farmhouse Friday, August 9, 2024

Join us for a summer Pro Tour of a 1782 Vermont Farmhouse, currently under construction for a zero-energy retrofit and expansion in beautiful Reading, Vermont. This project combines an energy retrofit on a historic Cape and a high-performance vernacular addition built off-site to create a net zero energy building with reduced embodied carbon. This 4181 sq. ft. square-foot building and features updated hydronics, appliances, an air-water heat pump, EV charging, whose energy use is balanced via on-site photovoltaic electrical generation. The building was designed to blend into its rural... Full Description

Announcement BuildingEnergy Magazine: Call for Proposals and Committee Members Monday, July 15, 2024 to Friday, August 9, 2024

BuildingEnergy magazine is NESEA's annual publication for high-performance building and sustainable energy professionals and

BuildingEnergy Planning Meeting BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 Open Planning Meeting Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Share your vision for BuildingEnergy Boston 2025!

BuildingEnergy Boston is designed by and for practitioners (like you) in the fields of high-performance building and design, energy efficiency, and renewable energy. Share your vision and help to shape next year's event by attending the Open Planning Meeting on June 27. BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 will take place March 2025.

BuildingEnergy Pro Tour Pro Tour: LBC Environmental Center in Collaboration with Voch/Tech School Friday, June 21, 2024

This event has been postponed and will be rescheduled for later in the year.

BuildingEnergy Planning Meeting BuildingEnergy NYC 2024 Content Committee Meeting #2 Thursday, June 13, 2024

The BuildingEnergy NYC 2024 Content Committee will be meeting in-person to make final decisions about conference session proposals

BuildingEnergy Pro Tour Pro Tour: Under Construction Passive House Development in Northern CT Friday, June 7, 2024

You can see photos from this Pro Tour here...

Special Event 10 Years of Bottom Lines: Triple Bottom Lines Impact Wednesday, May 29, 2024 to Thursday, May 30, 2024

Join us for a special celebration as we commemorate a decade of Bottom Lines!

BuildingEnergy Pro Tour Pro Tour: The World’s First Core Living Building Certified Building Friday, May 17, 2024

Update: this event has been postponed.

BuildingEnergy Planning Meeting BuildingEnergy NYC 2024 Content Committee Meeting #1 Wednesday, May 15, 2024

The BuildingEnergy NYC 2024 Content Committee will be meeting to discuss conference session proposals and select finalists for more detailed review. This meeting is private, open only to the NESEA Member-volunteers serving on this year's committee.

Special Event Community Meet-Up Thursday, May 9, 2024

Come join us as we continue to build a sense of community and help to lay the foundation for our refreshed roadmap of initiatives that will aim to help guide NESEA and influence our industry for years to come!

BuildingEnergy Pro Tour Island Revival: A High Performance Home on an Island in Maine Friday, May 3, 2024

Join NESEA for this spring Pro Tour of an under-construction single family home on Peaks Island, just a short ferry ride from Portland, ME.

BuildingEnergy Pro Tour All-Electric, Affordable Passive House Development in Boston Friday, April 26, 2024

Join NESEA for the first Pro Tour of 2024, a new construction passive house project that will bring 50 units of affordable senior housing to the community of Roxbury, Massachusetts.

Announcement Application Deadline: Serve on NESEA's Board Monday, April 22, 2024 to Friday, July 19, 2024

The NESEA Board of Directors is composed of 13 members dedicated to serving NESEA's mission and vision. These individuals come from a variety of professional and personal backgrounds, and they collectively represent the interests and needs of our extended community.

Announcement BuildingEnergy NYC 2024 Call for Proposals Tuesday, April 2, 2024 to Monday, April 29, 2024

Review Period: May 1 – June 13
Notification of Decisions: Mid June

BuildingEnergy Conference BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 Tuesday, March 19, 2024 to Wednesday, March 20, 2024

BuildingEnergy Boston is a conference designed by and for practitioners in the fields of high-performance building and design, energy efficiency, and renewable energy. It brings more than 1,000 industry leaders and emerging professionals together to learn from and share ideas with each other . The conference will feature product demonstrations, networking events, and accredited sessions that offer best practices and lessons learned, case studies and proven data, technical "how-to"s, emerging technologies, and innovative policies and programs.

BuildingEnergy Pre-Conference Webinar Refrigerant Phase-Outs: Explained and Untangled: Pre-Conference Webinar by HTS/DXS/CTI Wednesday, March 13, 2024

An HTS/DXS/CTI Expert Education Series: Foot Off The Gas

BuildingEnergy Planning Meeting BuildingEnergy NYC 2024 Open Planning Meeting Tuesday, January 23, 2024

BuildingEnergy NYC will take place on October 24, 2024.

BuildingEnergy Pro Tour Passive House Certified, Affordable Multifamily in the Bronx Friday, December 15, 2023

Join NESEA for this September Pro Tour of a Phius-certified passive midrise bringing 53 units of affordable housing to the Fordham neighborhood of the Bronx. During this tour, led by our hosts from Curtis + Ginsberg Architects, our attendees will learn about the design strategies and innovative energy-efficiency and sustainability measures that made this project possible.

BuildingEnergy Planning Meeting BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 Content Committee Meeting #2 Tuesday, December 12, 2023

The BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 Content Committee will be meeting to make final decisions about conference session pr

BuildingEnergy Pro Tour Large Scale, State-Owned CLT Building in Massachusetts Friday, December 8, 2023

Join NESEA for our final Pro Tour of 2023, featuring Massachusetts’s first publicly funded, large scale state-owned CLT building.

Announcement 2024 Pro Tour Request for Proposals Wednesday, December 6, 2023 to Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Share your work with the NESEA community!

BuildingEnergy Pro Tour "Pretty Good" Net Zero Home and Barn in New Hampshire Friday, November 17, 2023

Join us for a Pro Tour of this recently completed single-family home in southern New Hampshire, built to provide comfortable, net zero living using low VOC materials and finishes.

BuildingEnergy Planning Meeting BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 Content Committee Meeting #1 Thursday, November 16, 2023

The BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 Content Committee will be meeting to discuss conference session proposals and sel

BuildingEnergy Pro Tour Low-Embodied Carbon Commercial Project in Upstate New York Friday, November 3, 2023

Join NESEA as we tour the new Soul Fire Farm Program Center, a nearly all-electric commercial building constructed from straw-insulated panels. The project team, led by New Frameworks, will share the story of this project, including history, design strategies, and materials.

BuildingEnergy Planning Meeting BuildingEnergy Boston Conference Chair Office Hours Thursday, November 2, 2023
Thinking of submitting a session proposal for BuildingEnergy Boston 2024, but don't know where to start?
Annual Meeting 2023 NESEA Annual Meeting Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Join us for the 2023 NESEA Annual Meeting on Wednesday, November 1.

Announcement BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 Call for Proposals: Due Date 11/8 Monday, October 30, 2023 to Wednesday, November 8, 2023

The deadline to submit your conference session proposal is November 8.

BuildingEnergy Pro Tour All-Electric, Urban Infill Project in Ithaca, NY Friday, October 20, 2023

Edit: Thank you to our sponsors and attendees for making this event a success.

BuildingEnergy Conference BuildingEnergy NYC 2023 Thursday, October 12, 2023

SOLD OUT! NESEA's BuildingEnergy NYC conference and trade show is a chance to immerse yourself in a full day of networking and intensive learning with your peers from the fields of design, construction, engineering, policy, finance, and beyond. Conference sessions present best practices and lessons learned based on real case studies and proven data, as well as showcasing innovative technologies and programs. If you are a building sustainability professional in any stage of your career, mark your calendar now, and plan to join us on Thursday, October 12, 2023 in New York City!

Special Event NESEA Night 2023 Wednesday, October 11, 2023

SOLD OUT! We'll gather to honor the 2023 NESEA award recipients and to celebrate our growing NYC community.
During this annual event, we recognize the work of four outstanding individuals, and attendees have the opportunity to meet new people and reconnect with old friends.

BuildingEnergy Pre-Conference Webinar Pre-Conference Webinar by NYSERDA: Multifamily Programs Updates Thursday, September 28, 2023

Get ready for BuildingEnergy NYC 2023 by attending this pre-conference webinar sponsored and presented by 

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