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Discussions with tag 'Net zero'
Tuesday, August 9th: Steps Toward Achieving Advanced Energy Performance in Existing Buildings
Steps Toward Achieving Advanced Energy Performance in Existing Buildings IN PARTNERSHIP WITH: ASHRAE 97% of the U.S. building stock are existing buildings. According to CBECS, these buildings ar…
Mass Save Residential High Performance and Net Zero Construction Workshop - October 6 - Boston (This event has been postponed)
High Performance and Net Zero Construction Workshop Are you interested in learning about high performance and “Net Zero” new construction from local industry experts? Do you want to learn about…
New Buildings Institute Forum: Getting to Zero - National Forum, October 12-13, Denver, Colorado
New Buildings Institute Forum: Getting to Zero - National Forum October 12-13 Grand Hyatt Denver, Colorado The 2016 Getting to Zero National Forum will present three jam-packed days of tours, wor…
NESEA Pro Tour: Passive, Net Zero Timberframe Home + Data - Friday, November 18, 1-5 pm
NESEA Pro Tour: Passive, Net Zero Timberframe Home + Data Friday, November 18, 2016 - 12:30 - 5pm Lancaster, NH CEUs: 2.5 AIA LU/HSW, 3.25 BPI, and certificates of participation are available …
Leading businesses back 2050 Net Zero goal for buildings
Three leading businesses have committed to a global target to ensure all buildings have net zero carbon emissions by 2050. Engineering firm Integral Group, international property and infrastructure gr…
CT Net Zero Farm House Tour on July 8
Take an open wall, open house tour of a great net zero home we’re in the midst of building in Mansfield. The home achieves high performance and affordability by integrating today’s most advanced b…
Introduction to Living Building Challenge in Boston on July 27
Join us for an introductory session on the newest and most rigorous standard in high performance buildings today. If you are new to the standard or have a few unanswered questions come visit this sess…
The Green Building Convention, 3-5 October, Cape Town, South Africa
The Green Building Convention is a definitive event on the sustainability calendar and will take place in Cape Town in 2018. This year the convention's theme is: THE RACE TO ZERO. The event will…
Net Zero Roundtable Discussion- Boston, MA on June 20th, 7-9pm
What does the community of the future look like? Probably net zero, or even net positive. What does that mean? It means a community that makes as much (or more) renewable energy as it uses. It’s not…
Free: Net Zero Energy Buildings Webinar, 7-8 pm, August 15
Did you know that more than 40 percent of our energy consumption is coming from homes and commercial buildings? Our buildings and built environment are a large contributor to our carbon emissions. Thi…
Achieving Net-Zero Energy Buildings, September 25, 8am-12:30pm, Washington, DC
Presenters will introduce zero energy definitions and provide an overview of trends and strategies for zero energy market adoption and growth. We will outline the technologies, processes, and approach…
Better Building Codes: Getting to Passive House & Net Zero, Passive House MA Meeting, February 12, Boston MA
Join Passive House MA for their February meeting, focusing on the next major area of Passive House policy change in MA - building codes. A collection of presenters will discuss the process to update c
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Net Zero Carbon, Water, and Energy + Decarbonizing at the District Level, August 13, St. Louis, MO
This session will start by reviewing the various definitions of net zero energy and carbon, and Zero Water and One Water, including those developed by the USGBC and ILFI. It will then provide some con
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First Net-Zero School In Massachusetts, August 23, 12:30-5:00pm, Cambridge, MA
Join NESEA for a tour of a new high performance campus in Cambridge. This project is designed to be the first net zero emissions school in Massachusetts and the largest net zero emissions building in
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NetZero Build Summit, Online, August 25-28 (Midwest Focus, but all are welcome!)
NetZeroBuild Summit 2020 brings together the key stakeholders involved in the Midwest’s value chain for net-zero construction in residential, commercial, academic and government buildings for th
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Webinar: A Roadmap to Holistic Building Decarbonization, July 30, 1pm EDT
For years, the holy grail for buildings sustainability has been to reach the goal of Net Zero Energy and Net Zero Carbon (with similar goals for water, waste, and health). With the latest codes cycle
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Massachusetts New Construction Webinar, Presented by Mass Save and Eversource, Wednesday, Jul 29, 10 am EDT
We are less than a week away from The Mass Save Commercial New Construction and Major Renovation new solutions webinar. We look forward to sharing the details of our new energy efficiency initiatives.
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Virtual Conference: Net-Zero Build Summit, August 25-28
NetZeroBuild Summit 2020 brings together the key stakeholders involved in the Midwest’s value chain for net-zero construction in residential, commercial, academic and government buildings for th
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Webinar: Decarbonization Technologies: What We Have, What We Need, October 29, 10 am
This is a Best of the Forum session. Take stock of the current state of the building technologies needed to drive decarbonization at scale. In this webinar, moderated by Clay Nesler, a report will be
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Free Webinar: Net Zero Success Strategies: Building Science and Consumer Expectations, September 3, 2 pm EDT
Efforts to achieve net zero and decarbonization are destined to fail if we maintain the status quo. It’s not enough to advocate for high performance products and systems, like heat pump te
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Webinar: World Green Building Week - The Road to COP26, September 22, 11 am BST
Join UKGBC during World Green Building Week, for which the theme is “Act on Climate”. We are choosing to use this moment as a milestone on the Road to COP26, to shine a spotlight on the le
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Webinar: ASHRAE Global HQ: Designing for Net Zero (Part 1 of 2), September 29, 9-10:30am EST
Join ASHRAE, AIA New York Committee on the Environment, and the Building Energy Exchange for this two-part series on planning and executing a successful commercial net-zero energy retrofit.
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Webinar: Passivhaus for Educational Buildings: Schools, September 23, 11am EDT
The fourth and final session in a four-part mini-series of interactive online events for local authorities, educational institutions and others involved with delivering educational buildings to the Pa
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Webinar: ASHRAE Global HQ: Energy Modeling for Net Zero Pt. 2, October 1, 9am EST
For the second session of this two-part series, join Stanton Stafford, Managing Principal at Integral Group, and Shreshth Nagpal, Principal at Elementa Engineering, for a deep dive into the energy mod
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Webinar: Passive House Symposium 2020, Presented by Passive House Massachusetts, October 27 - 28
The need for low-carbon, climate resilient, and healthy buildings is now more clear than ever and Passive House is the platform to build on for net-zero, resilient, healthy, and carbon-neutral communi
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