Wednesday-Friday, May 5-7, 2021 Online Event - #BE21 Brought to you by the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA)
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Wednesday-Friday, May 5-7, 2021 Online Event #BE21 Brought to you by the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA)
Welcome to BuildingEnergy Boston 2021!
NESEA’s 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 hundreds of industry leaders and emerging professionals together to
learn from and share ideas with each other.
The 2021 conference will be held virtually, Wednesday-Friday, May 5-7. Wednesday will feature a Methods & Materials Showcase
with live product demonstrations, roundtable discussions, sponsored sessions, networking events, and a keynote presentation.
Thursday and Friday will feature accredited conference sessions that offer best practices and lessons learned, case studies
and proven data, technical how-to’s, emerging technologies, and innovative policies and programs. You can click through this
interactive digital program to learn more about this year’s events, committee members, and partners.
Be sure to join us on Thursday, May 6, at 5pm for NESEA Night, where we’ll celebrate NESEA’s 2021 Award Recipients. In addition
to the live awards presentation, there will be trivia, prizes, and a chance to send your best wishes to this year’s award recipients.
Kate Goldstein Emerging Leader Award Recipient Distinguished Service Award Recipient
Elizabeth Engoren is a Senior Energy Kurt Teichert is a Senior Lecturer of
Engineer and Business Development Environmental Studies at Brown University
Associate at EN-POWER GROUP, a full- and Critic in Interior Architecture at Rhode
service energy engineering firm. Elizabeth Island School of Design. He teaches courses
is passionate about bringing together and advises students on building science,
building industry stakeholders to learn sustainability in design, environmental
from each other, fostering inclusivity, stewardship, urban infrastructure, and
and expanding the building community – all of which made transportation technology and policy. Kurt worked as Research
supporting NESEA’s mission a natural fit. Associate and Facilities Manager at The New Alchemy Institute
This award recognizes a NESEA Member early in their career in the 1980s, which is when he first became active with NESEA.
for current engagement and their demonstrated potential to This award recognizes a NESEA Member who has made a
continue to meaningfully affect the future of NESEA. significant contribution of time and service to the organization.
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Meet the 2021 Content Committee
The content of BuildingEnergy Boston is curated by a volunteer committee of NESEA Members who collectively put
in hundreds of hours throughout the year to ensure that sessions are genuinely useful to attendees. Thank you to the
2021 BuildingEnergy Boston Content Committee and Conference Chairs for making this year’s event possible!
Click on their photos below to learn more about them.
Conference Chair Conference Chair Vice-Chair Vice-Chair
Nick Falkoff Stephanie Horowitz Anna Heath Christopher Nielson Lauren Baumann
Auburndale Builders ZeroEnergy Design Maine Passive House Bruner/Cott Architects New Ecology
James Cater Beverly Craig Bryan Evans Keirstan Field Meg Howard
Eversource MassCEC NEEP Petersen Engineering MassCEC
Emily Jones Arlen Li Richard Lo Frank Mruk Julia Nugent
LISC HGA Kaplan Thompson Architects Roxbury Community College HMFH Architects
Kurt Roth Ksenia Ruuska Mark Schow Michael Simons Greg Smith
Fraunhofer USA CMI Tampere University of Applied Elevated Design Abode Energy Management Prellwitz Chilinski Associates
Sciences
Stephen Stuart Margo Valdés Danny Veerkamp Maria Washington Daryl Wright
Sullivan County Office of Sustainable Comfort Byggmeister Emerald Cities
Sustainable Energy
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Wednesday Events (Methods & Materials Showcase)
Keynote Session: Light + Justice
10:30am
11:00am
Continuing Carbon Sequestration High Efficiency CHP Solutions Stone Wool Insulation in Exterior
11:30am in Wood by Pioneer Millworks by Dalkia Aegis Wall & Rainscreen Applications
by ROCKWOOL
New Product Showcase Carbon-Competitive Construction Mapping Environmental Justice
12:00pm by Huber Engineered Woods with Local Wood Products by NEFF
& Local Wood WORKS
Building Energy - A German
12:30pm Perspective by the German
American Chamber of Commerce
The Latest and Greatest in Air and the Consulate General of the phius 2021: Emissions Down, Scale
Federal Republic of Germany in
1:00pm Sealing Materials by 475 High Up by PHIUS
Performance Building Supply Boston
Hot Topics in Clean Heat: Survival of the Flex-est: Creating a Whole-home Residential Electricity
1:30pm Massachusetts’ Roadmap to 2050 Culture that Works in a Changing Monitor by Blue Line Innovations
by MassCEC World by Petersen Engineering
Explore Zero Emission Water Occupant-Oriented Decarbonization
2:00pm Heating Solutions by Eemax Strategies by Consigli Construction
Quebec Meets NESEA Energy Saving All-Electric Water QuietCool Whole House Fans: A
2:30pm by Quebec BVI Heating: Solar Thermal and Solar Better Way to Cool and Ventilate
Assisted Heat Pumps by NESHW Homes by QuietCool
Get Smart about Offsite Let’s Talk Mitsubishi Electric by
3:00pm Construction by Bensonwood Mitsubishi Electric Trane HVAC US
Residential New Construction
3:30pm by Mass Save
CERV2 Smart Ventilation Product Evolution of Vinyl Window What’s New at the Studio for High-
4:00pm Demo by Build Equinox Efficiency by Kohltech Performance Design & Construction
by Auburndale Builders
Community Happy Hour & Beer
4:30pm Tasting with Abode Energy Community Event
Management
Sponsored Session
5:00pm
Conference Session
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Thursday Events
8:00am Achieving Performance Comparing the Operating Net Zero Single Family
Goals: Modular New vs. Performance of High Remodel: Whys & Woes
Retrofit Existing Performing Public
8:30am Buildings to their Design
NESEA Membership
9:00am Office Hours
9:30am Best Practices: Public Health & the Built Understanding Boston’s Why Do Startups
Comparing Two Adjacent Environment: Putting Proposed Performance Innovate Better than
Multifamily Passive Research into Action Standard Design Firms & What Can
10:00am Houses We Learn from Them?
10:30am
Fostering Innovative
11:00am Spirit
11:30am Electrifying Hard-to-Heat Tracking the Greenhouse Virtual Power Plants: Why Go Deep? Retrofit
Buildings Gas Impacts of Your The Future of Distributed Lessons from Low-
Energy Efficiency Energy Storage Income Multifamily
12:00pm Measures Projects
12:30pm Diversity Caucus
1:00pm
1:30pm Mass Timber The Next Frontier: Project Management Light + Justice:
Construction in the Material Transparency from Afar In Practice
Northeast Across Disciplines
2:00pm
2:30pm Just Like Computing,
Distributed Mechanical
Systems are the Future
Take Action with Your
3:00pm Municipality
by Minotair
3:30pm Multifamily Humidity Schools of Thought Whose Role Is It Anyway? Lessons Learned from
Control Problems: Muggy Understanding the MassCEC’s Triple Decker
Mayhem Requirement of Diversity Challenge by MassCEC
4:00pm in the New Green Frontier
4:30pm
Community Event
5:00pm NESEA Night
Sponsored Session
5:30pm Conference Session
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Friday Events
8:00am
Case Study of a Low- HFC Refrigerants in Community Event
Energy Multifamily Heat Pumps: Regulatory
Development: A Practical Update & Emissions Sponsored Session
Discussion of Challenges Analysis by DXS
8:30am & Success at The Flow Conference Session
Chelsea in NYC
NESEA Membership
9:00am Office Hours
The Glue That Binds Integrating Sustainability Low-Carbon Concrete & Piloting, Scaling &
9:30am PrePHab: How Designers into Practice Steel Structures Committing to Healthier
& Builders SIMMplify Materials
Passive House
10:00am
10:30am
Carbon Smart Live Product Demo by
11:00am Construction in Practice Minotair
Decarbonization of Leaving the Mesozoic Modular vs. Stick-built: A Today’s Acceptable
11:30am Domestic Water Heating Behind: From Fossil Fuels Side-by-Side Comparison Ventilation is
in Multifamily Buildings to the Future via Carbon- with Habitat for Unacceptable
Neutral Buildings Humanity
12:00pm
Lifetime Member Lunch Bottom Lines Business Everyday Climate Justice
12:30pm Development Roundtable
1:00pm
Historic Buildings Leveraging Diversity Proving Your Worth: Sheridan Small Homes:
1:30pm & Climate Change to Meet the Climate Energy Loan Performance Affordable Passive
Mitigation: Case Study Challenge Monitoring, Verification & Houses for In-Fill
of a Low-Carbon Marketing Development
2:00pm Renovation
2:30pm
3:00pm
Electrification + The Proof is in the Single Family Retrofit to
3:30pm Affordable Housing: What Project: Cost & Passive House EnerPHit
You Need to Know Performance of Built Standards
Passive Multifamily
4:00pm
Closing Reception
4:30pm
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CEU Information We are pleased to offer AIA, BPI, GBCI, MA CSL, PHI, PHIUS, and RESNET credits at BuildingEnergy Boston 2021. With this year’s virtual format, you can choose from 34 accredited sessions to earn up to 13 CEUs during the live event, and you’ll be able to earn up to 20 CEUs by watching session recordings and taking quizzes after the event (post conference CEUs will be available starting June 1, 2021). Certificates of Attendance If you attend at least one session at BuildingEnergy Boston 2021, you will receive a detailed certificate of attendance via email in June. You can use that certificate to self-report your hours to your professional organizations. If you want AIA, BPI, GBCI-LEED, and/or MA CSL credits: NESEA must report those credits directly to those organizations. When you login to the conference website in early May, be sure your participant profile includes your membership numbers to any applicable organizations. AIA All conference sessions on Thursday and Friday will offer AIA learning units, primarily LU/HSW. NESEA will report credits on your behalf. BPI 19 sessions offer credits from the Building Performance Institute (BPI). You can use this clickable PDF to view all BPI- approved sessions. NESEA will report credits on your behalf. GBCI-LEED 16 sessions offer GBCI credits for LEED certifications (BD+C, ID+C, O+M & WELL). You can use this clickable PDF to view all GBCI-approved sessions. NESEA will report credits on your behalf. MA CSL The conference has been approved for Massachusetts Construction Supervisor License (CSL) credits in Energy and in Business Practice. CSL credit-hours are given as a packet: 4.5 CEUs for attending Thursday and 4.5 CEUs for attending Friday. NESEA will report credits on your behalf, and you will use your Certificate of Attendance in your license renewal portfolio. Note that for each day you claim credit, you must sign in and attend at least 4.5 hours of sessions. Passive House Institute PHI has approved two sessions, both on Friday, May 7: Case Study of a Low-Energy Multifamily Development (1 credit point) and Single Family Retrofit to Passive House EnerPHit Standards (1 credit point). You will self-report your credits. PHIUS CPHC This year’s conference has been approved for up to 9 PHIUS CPHC credits. Credit-hours are given as a packet: 4.5 credits for attending Thursday and 4.5 credits for attending Friday. You may self-report on PHIUS’s website to receive credits. Your certificate of completion will include the codes you’ll need to report which day(s) you attended. RESNET BuildingEnergy Boston 2021 has been designated a regional RESNET conference. RESNET raters, QADs, and instructors will automatically receive 4.5 credit hours for attending Thursday, May 6; 4.5 hours for attending Friday, May 7; and 9 hours for attending the full conference. You will self-report your credits. 10 IBuildingEnergy Boston 2021
Meet Our Partners
Thank you to our sponsors and other industry partners, whose support makes BuildingEnergy Boston possible.
We encourage you to learn more about them by clicking on the logos below.
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