Kick off BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 and meet fellow attendees at our community happy hour. Light appetizers will be provided, and there will be a cash bar.
BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 Conference Events
Wednesday
Wednesday, March 19, 2025 - 5:00pm
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Community Event
Location: Sauciety
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Community Event
The evening before the conference, we invite you to join our colleagues from the Carbon Leadership Forum for Boston's first public screening of Women of Carbon, a... Full Description
Location: The Engine (Cambridge, MA)
Thursday
Thursday, March 20, 2025 - 8:00am
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Community Event
Join us for coffee and tea while you check out the exhibitors at the Trade Show.
Location: Trade Show Floor
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Community Event
Invitation only. This annual event provides NESEA Lifetime Members with a dedicated space to relax, network, and enjoy breakfast before a busy day at the conference.... Full Description
Location: Carlton
Thursday, March 20, 2025 - 9:00am
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Community Event
Andrew Himes is Director of Collective Impact for the Carbon Leadership Forum. Over the past several years in the building industry, collective decarbonization... Full Description
Location: Harbor Ballroom
Speakers: Andrew Himes
Thursday, March 20, 2025 - 10:00am
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Community Event
Join us for coffee and tea while you check out the exhibitors at the Trade Show.
Location: Trade Show Floor
Thursday, March 20, 2025 - 10:30am
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Session
It's time to build the movement! Bio-based or natural materials are the future, and we'll discuss the role they are playing in shaping the industry. The Bio-Based... Full Description
Location: Harbor 1
Speakers: James Kitchin ✵ Chris Magwood ✵ Ace McArleton ✵ Jonsara Ruth
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Learn lessons from prize-winning submissions to MassCEC’s Embodied Carbon Challenge, as well as One Boston Wharf Road, a 17-story net zero operational carbon office... Full Description
Location: Harbor 3
Speakers: Jim Carreira ✵ Beverly Craig ✵ Meredith Elbaum ✵ Caroline Murray
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LaMora Senior Living in Westchester, NY is the first completely modular Phius certified multifamily building in the world. This session presents the challenges faced... Full Description
Location: Harbor 2
Speakers: Stuart Lachs ✵ Anthony Lisanti ✵ John Loercher
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Boston is becoming a hotbed of innovation for equitable approaches to retrofitting existing buildings with a focus on affordable housing. This panel will highlight... Full Description
Location: Marina 1
Speakers: Christina McPike ✵ Caitlin Robillard ✵ Kristen Simmons ✵ Brooks Winner ✵ Joel Wool
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Join us for a facilitated conversation around the topic of structural racism in the construction industry, using a format that NESEA's Anti Racist Action Group (ARAG... Full Description
Location: Marina 3-4
Speakers: Asher Greenberg ✵ Kate Stephenson ✵ Andrew Webster
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Sponsored Session
Sponsored by Mass Save. Buildings of the future are here – and they are electric. Learn about the incentives and resources available through the Sponsors of Mass Save... Full Description
Location: Marina 2
Presenters: Joel Martell ✵ Keegan Ebbets ✵ Jim Patterson
Thursday, March 20, 2025 - 12:00pm
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Community Event
Enjoy lunch while networking at the Trade Show. Note: Lunch is only included for Full and One-Day Pass holders.
Location: Trade Show Floor
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Community Event
Calling all people of color, indigenous people, queer, trans, and gender non-binary individuals, LGBTQIA, women, people with justice system involvement, and people... Full Description
Location: Marina 3-4
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Community Event
Invitation only. This annual networking lunch brings together recipients of NESEA's BE the Future scholarship and supporters of the program. Included in each... Full Description
Location: Carlton
Thursday, March 20, 2025 - 1:00pm
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Session
Improving the performance of existing building stock presents challenges, but can also provide surprising opportunities. This presentation looks at exterior retrofits... Full Description
Location: Harbor 3
Speakers: Justin Dufresne ✵ Thomas Haskell
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The complexities of effectively implementing and operating system-level innovations makes pilots prone to failure, impeding their scalability. To increase the... Full Description
Location: Marina 1
Speakers: Charlie Simek
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This session will explore how strategies from the 2023 MA Healthy Soils Action Plan (HSAP) can transform our approach to site development and expand the carbon... Full Description
Location: Marina 3-4
Speakers: Sebastian Gutwein ✵ Jim Newman
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As practitioners, we are often so distracted by the data, payback, or whether a decision makes financial sense, that we lose sight of the real meaning of our work and... Full Description
Location: Harbor 1
Speakers: Carri Beer ✵ Catherine Rosas
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Explore how place-based strategies rooted in solidarity and economic justice can foster equity and build resilience beyond the buildings we build and companies we run... Full Description
Location: Harbor 2
Speakers: Declan Keefe
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Sponsored Session
Sponsored by HTS New England. As hydronic heat pump systems enter their second generation with updated A2L refrigerant technology, it is imperative to reflect on... Full Description
Location: Marina 2
Presenters: Mark LaFrance ✵ David Butcher
Thursday, March 20, 2025 - 2:00pm
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Community Event
Join us for coffee and tea while you check out the exhibitors at the Trade Show.
Location: Trade Show Floor
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Community Event
Amid the intense flow of back-to-back seminars, this session offers a much-needed pause to refresh, reset, and regain focus. It begins with warm-ups, followed by... Full Description
Location: Lewis
Speakers: Geetha Kanthasamy
Thursday, March 20, 2025 - 2:30pm
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Research estimates that at least 25% of people working in the AEC industry are neurodivergent, and yet most project teams are organized with the neurotypical brain in... Full Description
Location: Marina 3-4
Speakers: Miriam Aylward ✵ Mel Houser ✵ Kai Fast
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Using mass timber construction instead of concrete and steel can greatly reduce the embodied carbon of new construction, but faces specific challenges in dense urban... Full Description
Location: Marina 1
Speakers: Floris Keverling Buisman ✵ Brent Buck ✵ Andrew Ruff
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Building Energy Boston 2019 launched awareness of embodied carbon as a key issue for the home building sector. The following five years marked major advances in... Full Description
Location: Harbor 1
Speakers: Chris Magwood
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Details matter in this analysis of a challenging building type, a 9000sf Vermont town garage. First principles were applied to assess HVAC cases: two heat-pump types... Full Description
Location: Harbor 2
Speakers: Andy Shapiro
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Aggressive Continuous Commissioning: A Decade of Energy and Carbon Reduction at Liberty Mutual Tower
Over the past decade, the LEED Gold-certified Liberty Mutual Tower at 157 Berkeley Street has made significant strides in energy and carbon reduction through... Full Description
Location: Harbor 3
Speakers: Andrew DelPrete ✵ Jess Farber ✵ Terri Laurence
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Sponsored Session
Sponsored by MassCEC. Retrofitting existing buildings is hard. It's not always clear where to go for reliable information or training, and financing is complicated.... Full Description
Location: Marina 2
Presenters: Peter McPhee ✵ Meredith Elbaum ✵ Helio Rosa
Thursday, March 20, 2025 - 3:30pm
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Community Event
Join us for coffee and tea while you check out the exhibitors at the Trade Show.
Location: Trade Show Floor
Thursday, March 20, 2025 - 4:00pm
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Community Event
In the inherently competitive design and construction industries, collaboration can be challenging. However, there are powerful examples of collective impact-- where... Full Description
Location: Marina 3-4
Speakers: Andrew Himes ✵ Lori Ferriss ✵ Julie Janiski ✵ Michelle Lambert ✵ Nadav Malin
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This panel will feature three construction professionals: architect, builder and rater/verifier, who have completed multiple certified Phius projects. Each... Full Description
Location: Harbor 1
Speakers: Michael Browne ✵ Greg Downing ✵ Jeff Geisinger
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Modern energy codes and requirements for high performance result in implementation of continuous exterior wall insulation. The speakers will explain the fundamental... Full Description
Location: Harbor 2
Speakers: Peter Baker ✵ Kohta Ueno
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An abandoned industrial site in Lawrence, MA is now home to 80 low-income families, living in Phius certified apartments near a riverway, public transportation, and... Full Description
Location: Marina 1
Speakers: Bill Boehm ✵ Spencer Buchholz ✵ Paul Eddowes ✵ Corey Heaslip ✵ Christopher Thompson
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When it comes to the impact of buildings on the environment, considering both operational and embodied carbon is critical. Balancing these can be a complex task,... Full Description
Location: Harbor 3
Speakers: Shari Rauls ✵ Mélanie Trottier
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Sponsored Session
Sponsored by Ventacity Systems. Modeling heat pump and Very High Efficiency H/ERV energy use has been a challenge with conventional modeling software. With the... Full Description
Location: Marina 2
Presenters: Barry Stephens
Thursday, March 20, 2025 - 5:00pm
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Community Event
All conference attendees are invited to mingle on the trade show floor during this reception that includes a cash bar and light snacks. Celebrate the first day of the... Full Description
Location: Trade Show Floor
Thursday, March 20, 2025 - 6:30pm
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Community Event
Registration required. Join us at the conclusion of the first day of BuildingEnergy Boston 2025 to toast 50 years of NESEA! We'll gather to celebrate our first 50... Full Description
Location: Harbor Ballroom
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Community Event
Want to keep the celebration going? Head over to Lucky's Lounge, at 355 Congress St!
Please note that we do not have space reserved at Lucky's, and this is not... Full Description
Friday
Friday, March 21, 2025 - 8:00am
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Community Event
Join us for coffee and tea while you check out the exhibitors at the Trade Show.
Location: Trade Show Floor
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Community Event
Get your body and mind warmed up for the second day of the conference!
Standing stretches led by Courtney Lindop will run from about 8:15–8:45.
Location: Lewis
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Community Event
Note: This event is full
Location: Marina 3-4
Friday, March 21, 2025 - 9:00am
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Community Event
The design profession has responded creatively and urgently to the climate impacts, but there is more needed to Build the Movement! Climate disturbances... Full Description
Location: Harbor Ballroom
Speakers: Laura Bailey ✵ Heather Ferrell
Friday, March 21, 2025 - 10:00am
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Community Event
Join us for coffee and tea while you check out the exhibitors at the Trade Show.
Location: Trade Show Floor
Friday, March 21, 2025 - 10:30am
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Session
With Passive House (PH) certification becoming typical, or code-required, throughout the Northeast, ensuring smart and efficient project team collaboration is... Full Description
Location: Marina 1
Speakers: Michelle Apigian ✵ Moses Cordeiro ✵ James Petersen ✵ Zoe Weinrobe ✵ Ashley Wisse
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This session will lay out in detail a comprehensive plan to simultaneously solve both the regional housing shortage and the building industry’s contribution to the... Full Description
Location: Harbor 1
Speakers: Andrew Frederick ✵ Alan Gibson
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Regenerative practices are emerging in design, construction, systems ecology, and economics that may be equal to the multi-faceted existential challenge of our times... Full Description
Location: Harbor 3
Speakers: Zbingniew Grabowski ✵ Michael Hindle ✵ Gus Dunn-Hindle
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A panel discussion with leaders of advocacy communities who embody the UN-Bruntland definition of sustainability: “meeting the needs of the present without... Full Description
Location: Harbor 2
Speakers: Gina Cruz Taveras ✵ Meredith Elbaum ✵ Michael Gryniuk ✵ Rand Lemley ✵ Jim Newman
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The building industry is assembling a circular economy, and we need you! Participants of all roles (architects, contractors, owners, fabricators, policymakers, etc.)... Full Description
Location: Marina 3-4
Speakers: Olivia Huang ✵ Michael Orbank
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Sponsored Session
Sponsored by DXS and Daikin. 2025 is a major transition year for the HVAC industry and heat pumps, due to refrigerants transitioning from high GWP A1 refrigerants to... Full Description
Location: Marina 2
Presenters: JS Rancourt ✵ Adam Camillo
Friday, March 21, 2025 - 12:00pm
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Community Event
Enjoy lunch while networking at the Trade Show. Note: Lunch is only included for Full and One-Day Pass holders.
Location: Trade Show Floor
Friday, March 21, 2025 - 1:00pm
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Session
Come learn from a Design/Build company that has been building market rate high performance and PHIUS certified homes in RI for over 10 years. Our experience has... Full Description
Location: Harbor 3
Speakers: Stephen DeMetrick
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This session explores the decarbonization strategies of two landmark build-ings. Harlem River Houses, a public housing preservation project with lowrise walk-ups, is... Full Description
Location: Marina 1
Speakers: Ryan Esparza ✵ Dylan Martello ✵ Crystal Ng
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As large-scale electrification and decarbonization accelerate, it's critical to mitigate the impacts of increased demand to the grid. This session will explore the... Full Description
Location: Harbor 2
Speakers: Joseph Bliss ✵ Charles Lovejoy ✵ Joseph Redmond ✵ Ellen Richer ✵ Christopher Till
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Gone are the days of simple light fixture changes to save money and power. The low-hanging efficiency fruit has been harvested, and building owners, utilities and... Full Description
Location: Harbor 1
Speakers: Sara Kudra ✵ Rand Lemley ✵ Ilene Mason
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To Build the Movement we must break open the design bubble to allow room for growth, expansion, and inclusion, and—fundamentally—to strengthen human connections. To... Full Description
Location: Marina 3-4
Speakers: Laura Bailey ✵ Heather Ferrell
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Sponsored Session
Sponsored by Aeroseal/AeroBarrier. Reusing existing and historic buildings while also making them more efficient, healthier and comfortable is of growing importance... Full Description
Location: Marina 2
Presenters: Bill Shadid ✵ Thomas Holmes ✵ Sean Landry ✵ Matthew Holden
Friday, March 21, 2025 - 2:00pm
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Community Event
Join us for coffee and tea while you check out the exhibitors at the Trade Show.
Location: Trade Show Floor
Friday, March 21, 2025 - 2:30pm
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This panel will analyze the impacts of the EPA's Technology Transitions Program, including the phasedown of HFCs and the adoption of A2L refrigerants, which present... Full Description
Location: Harbor 1
Speakers: Maciej Konieczny ✵ JS Rancourt ✵ Tom Secondo
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This year’s conference challenges us to think about how to build the movement by reaching beyond our traditional networks and silos. We have no time to spare to... Full Description
Location: Marina 1
Speakers: Sara Kudra ✵ Curt Newton
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ADUs can help us take advantage of existing infrastructure and developed land in order to build momentum in the production of resilient housing stock. Join us as we... Full Description
Location: Harbor 2
Speakers: Greg Bossie ✵ Katie Faulkner ✵ Hilary Gove ✵ Chris Lee ✵ Parlin Meyer
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Expanding leadership skills and perspectives is vital to breaking through “business as usual” mindsets and enacting industry-wide change. Using an interactive moral... Full Description
Location: Marina 3-4
Speakers: Melissa O'Mara ✵ Kevin Stack
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Catching and solving thermal bridges in the building envelope that arise during construction can truly be the determining factor between whether the finished building... Full Description
Location: Harbor 3
Speakers: Laura Bashaw ✵ Nouha Javed ✵ Cynthia Staats
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Sponsored Session
Sponsored by USGBC. As the building sector accounts for significant global greenhouse gas emissions, prioritizing decarbonization directly serves the public interest... Full Description
Location: Marina 2
Presenters: Paul Wessel ✵ Doria Brown ✵ Carolyn Misch ✵ Ben Weil
Friday, March 21, 2025 - 3:30pm
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Community Event
Join us for coffee and tea while you check out the exhibitors at the Trade Show.
Location: Trade Show Floor
Friday, March 21, 2025 - 4:00pm
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Community Event
Studio for High-Performance Design and Construction is hosting a "pro-tour" of our projects and programs right here at BuildingEnergy Boston 2025! Come be a part of... Full Description
Location: Burroughs
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Is there a one size fits all workforce development strategy for the built environment? NO! We will present three distinct approaches to workforce development that... Full Description
Location: Harbor 2
Speakers: Chase Macpherson ✵ Brendan Ryan ✵ Andy Winslow
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This presentation will provide an overview of strategies to introduce and enhance embodied carbon provisions in major model codes and standards. The presentation will... Full Description
Location: Marina 1
Speakers: Ariel Brenner ✵ Andy Buccino
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It is no longer sufficient to provide high-performance envelopes without considering their broader embodied impacts. Thankfully, data helps confirm the durability of... Full Description
Location: Harbor 1
Speakers: Diana Andrea Brito Picciotto ✵ Christopher Nielson
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The Passive House building is the song; the design team is the band. Cold Spring Apartments, a New York affordable housing project, exemplifies this symphony of... Full Description
Location: Harbor 3
Speakers: Nicole Schuster ✵ Andrew van Roo
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Sponsored Session
Sponsored by Mass Save. Join us for an engaging seminar that will explore the essential transition from traditional energy efficiency programs to innovative... Full Description
Location: Marina 2
Presenters: Joe Lessard ✵ Frank Nitti III ✵ Chris Lavallee ✵ Jayne Lino
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Sponsored Session
Sponsored by ReVision Energy.
Location: Marina 3-4
Friday, March 21, 2025 - 5:00pm
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Community Event
Join us for the conference's closing reception, celebrating the close of two days of connecting around the conference's theme of Building the Movement. We'll also... Full Description
Location: Harbor Foyer
