Past Conference Presentations

BuildingEnergy conferences are the flagship program of the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association. The content of these conferences is curated by volunteer committees of NESEA members to ensure that sessions are data-driven, diverse, and genuinely useful to professionals and practitioners working to create a more sustainable built environment.

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Conference: BuildingEnergy Boston 2024
Session Titlesort ascending Presentations Conference Presenters
What We Wish Everyone Knew: Using Commissioning Discoveries to Make Buildings Better PDF icon View Presentation (4.31 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 Nate Goodell
Louis Vogel
Wednesday Keynote — The Power of Systems Thinking: Designing Equitable and Resilient Infrastructure PDF icon View Presentation (4.7 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 Katie Wholey
Tuesday Keynote — Climate Changed: What Will You Do When Your Project Floods? PDF icon View Presentation (7.34 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 Elaine Hoffman
Jennifer Johnson
Patrick Murphy
Tools for Connection: Practicing Inclusion in Your Workplace PDF icon View Presentation (761.07 KB)
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BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 Iara Cury
Caroline Bruno
They're Making Me Do What? BERDO 2.0 from the Building Owner Perspective PDF icon View Presentation (2.35 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 Andy Winslow
Aidan Callan
Stephen Ellis
Neetu Siddarth
Thermal Resilience as a Retrofit Metric PDF icon View Presentation (9.03 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 Al Mitchell
The RESNET Carbon Trifecta: HERS Index + CO2 Index + Embodied Carbon PDF icon View Presentation (8.5 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 Andy Buccino
Nicole Burger
Jacob Deva Racusin
The Green Upgrade Calculator: A New Economic Modeling Tool for Home Decarbonization PDF icon View Presentation (497.56 KB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 Ryan Shea
Christopher Haringa
The Deep Energy Retrofit Controversy Revisited PDF icon View Presentation (5.68 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 Michael Hindle
Rachel White
Systems Thinking for Resilient Homes, Communities and Organizations PDF icon View Presentation (8.51 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 James Moriarty
Scaling Residential Decarbonization PDF icon View Presentation (3.19 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 Meg Howard
Tamir Nir
Mike Ostiguy
Rivermark: Occupied Rehab and Facade Replacement for Climate Resilient Communities PDF icon View Presentation (7.71 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 Jason Jewhurst
Jackie Mignone
Jack Sherman
Susan Twomey
Resilient Design for Facilities, Communities, and Climate PDF icon View Presentation (2.63 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 Nancy Hanright
Tracey Weeden
Jess Farber
Nicole Voss
Resilience and Sustainable Design for Laboratories: Harvard Science and Engineering Complex Case Study PDF icon View Presentation (7.74 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 David Madigan
Erik Hegre
Quality and Quantity: Strategies for Accelerating Single Family Passive Houses PDF icon View Presentation (6.09 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 John Loercher
Andy Allwine
Matthew Bowers
Pretty Good Reno: The Greenest House Is an Existing House PDF icon View Presentation (6.12 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 Emily Mottram
Dan Kolbert
Chris Briley
Passive House Verification: Get It Done Right, and Early PDF icon View Presentation (5.39 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 Kellie Murphy
Rylee Noonan
Joe Bodine
Monitored VRF Performance in New Multifamily Buildings PDF icon View Presentation (8.67 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 Dylan Martello
Shari Rauls
Mitigating Refrigerant Leakage in Residential Electrification PDF icon View Presentation (5.74 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 Jon Harrod
Brendan Kavanagh
Massachusetts Stretch and Specialized Codes PDF icon View Presentation (6.24 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 Paul Ormond
Joanne Bissetta
Christopher Grey
Olivia Brady
Lowering Total Carbon Emissions in a Dorm: Strategies for Design and Construction PDF icon View Presentation (5.08 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 Bill Maclay
Catherine Earley
Jacob Deva Racusin
Andrew Shapiro
Leveraging the Logic of Offsite Construction: A Gamified Training PDF icon View Presentation (9.17 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 Seth Clarke
Cody Berwick
Learn to Create Your Own Manual J Energy Model PDF icon View Presentation (6.38 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 Gwendolen St.Sauveur
IRA One Year In: The Fast-Evolving Facts of the Inflation Reduction Act PDF icon View Presentation (2 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 Jacob Goldman
Inside and Out: Insulating Our Existing Masonry Buildings PDF icon View Presentation (6.29 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 Mark Ginsberg
Cheryl Saldanha
Floris Keverling Buisman
How Building Professionals Can Harness Geothermal Energy for New Climate-Resilient Housing at Scale PDF icon View Presentation (3.3 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 Ryan Carda
Hot Water Electrification: Methods to Reduce First Costs, Embodied Carbon, and Operating Costs PDF icon View Presentation (4.4 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 James Petersen
Daniel Perez
Heating with Ice for Cost Effective Electrification, Resilience and Optimization PDF icon View Presentation (4.25 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 Travis Anderson
Laura Corso
Joelle Jahn
Go All Electric: Decarbonizing Public Housing in Boston PDF icon View Presentation (5.99 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 Joel Wool
Pallavi Mantha
Global Passive House: Extreme Climates and Cultural Challenges PDF icon View Presentation (7.77 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 Ilka Cassidy
Christina Aßmann
Sangeetha Sambandam
Sayo Okada
Equitable, Data Driven, Domestic Hot Water Decarbonization PDF icon View Presentation (3.73 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 Charlie Simek
Neil Donnelly
Energy as a Human Right: Virtual Microgrids in Low-Income Communities PDF icon View Presentation (2.24 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 Lydia Lowe
Kailash Viswanathan
Elena Gonzalez-Sosto
Sari Kayyali
Energizing Tomorrow: Navigating the Identification and Evaluation Processes for Successful Geothermal Projects PDF icon View Presentation (735.94 KB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 Joshua Soble
Bill Foley
Isabel Varela Gutierrez
Tim Ashmore
Brock Yordy
Efficiency is Decarbonization PDF icon View Presentation (5.56 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 Andrew Padian
Heather Nolen
Buildings as Power Plants: The Growing Role of Virtual Power Plants in the Northeast PDF icon View Presentation (775.07 KB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 Anna Demeo
Steven Hopengarten
Matt Golden
Building as Teacher: Education, Resilience, and Sustainability from the Inside Out PDF icon View Presentation (5.72 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 Gail Sullivan
Carrie Havey
Aniruddha Nene
Dr. Marvin Loiseau
Biomaterials: A Regional and Global Movement for Climate Justice and Resilience PDF icon View Presentation (7.88 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 Jacob Deva Racusin
Ace McArleton
Chris Hardy
Beyond Anthropocentrism: Practical Design for Resilient Building Enclosures PDF icon View Presentation (3.39 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 Andrew Steingiser
Shu Talun
A Revolution in Embodied Carbon: Four Pivotal Materials PDF icon View Presentation (3.52 MB) BuildingEnergy Boston 2024 Jodi Smits Anderson
Jim D'Aloisio

 

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