FUTURE-PROOF: RESILIENCE & RECOVERY
BUILDINGENERGY NYC ONE DAY CONFERENCE ON HIGH PERFORMANCE, LOW COST MULTIFAMILY BUILDINGS
SKYLINE ARTWORK BY HUGO LACASSE
DECEMBER 1, 2013 | 9:30AM - 4:15PM CUNY INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE CITIES @ HUNTER COLLEGE 126 E. 68TH ST. NEW YORK, NY
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
REGISTER NOW FOR THE PREMIER SUSTAINABILITY CONFERENCE IN THE NORTHEAST. TRACKS ON: MULTIFAMILY; RETROFITTING FOR RESILIENCE-CITIES, AND MORE NESEA.ORG/BUILDINGENERGY/TRACK-OVERVIEW
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CONFERENCE + TRADE SHOW FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY AND GREEN BUILDING PROFESSIONALS
MARCH 5-7, 2013 SEAPORT WORLD TRADE CENTER BOSTON, MA NESEA.ORG/BUILDINGENERGY BENYC attendees get $50 off a one or two day registration. Use promocode BENYC12.
WELCOME TO BUILDINGENERGY NYC! Jennifer Marrapese Executive Director, Northeast Sustainable Energy Association WELCOME to BuildingEnergy NYC, our first ever multifamily-specific conference! We are thrilled to bring BuildingEnergy to New York City with NYC-dedicated content, and to be co-hosting with our wonderful New York City chapter, GreenHomeNYC, without whom this event would not have been possible. Those of you who have attended our larger three-day gathering in Boston know that you're in for a treat - high caliber sessions, unparalleled networking, and the opportunity to learn from the real, unvarnished results of the best renewables, green building, and energy practitioners in the northeast. For those who haven't had the pleasure, we trust that your experience will be so great that you'll want to join our community year round. Learn more about the BuildingEnergy Conference and Trade Show, our community, and other NESEA events by talking to a few of our loyal members (the ones wearing the "I am, Are you?" buttons), or by visiting us online at NESEA.org. Thank you for coming. We hope we’ll see a lot more of you in the future.
F.L. Andrew Padian Vice President for Energy Initiatives, The Community Preservation Corporation THIS one-day conference combines an understanding of the benchmarking and energy auditing requirements set by the City, with the best technical information and first-hand experience on exactly how to save money in multifamily buildings through reduced energy and water usage. Considering our recent brush with Hurricane Sandy, running your building efficiently, safely, and emphasizing resilience is more urgent than ever. BuildingEnergy NYC will be the first conference to bring owners and managers in the room together to learn exactly how to proceed. Owners and building managers need to hear from each other about financing and real costs, and they need to share tricks they have learned that have helped them save money after finally getting an energy audit. I have invited the building experts who helped develop the framework for the new laws, LL87 and 84, to explain and demystify the process. In short, we've got the information you need, and people you really need to hear it from. F.L. Andrew Padian also serves on the Board of Directors for the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association and for GreenHomeNYC.
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EXHIBIT AT THE BUILDING ENERGY CONFERENCE AND TRADE SHOW MARCH 5-7, 2013 | SEAPORT WORLD TRADE CENTER | BOSTON, MA
Contact: Jenny Spencer jspencer@nesea.org 413-774-6051 ext. 25 NESEA.ORG/BUILDINGENERGY/EXHIBIT
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AGENDA OVERVIEW 8:30 - 9:30
Registration, coffee
9:30 - 10:15
Welcome from key sponsors Short keynote from Mark Thomson, ConEdison (rm. 615W)
10:15 - 10:30 Break 10:30 - 12:00 First concurrent sessions
What’s a Benchmark, an Audit and a Retrocommissioning? (rm. 615W); Low Cost Upgrades– Big Impact Savings (rm. 603W); Green, Healthy and Thrifty (rm. 605W)
12:00 - 1:00
Bag lunch (rm. 603W)
1:00 - 2:30
Second concurrent sessions
2:30 - 2:45
Break
2:45 - 4:15
Third concurrent sessions
4:15 - 6:00
Networking reception
Portfolio Wide Sustainability (rm. 605W); Financing Energy Upgrades in Existing Multifamily Housing (rm. 615W); Changing Individual Building Practices: Case Studies (rm. 603W)
Debunking Myths: Your Uncle Fred is Wrong! (rm. 605W); Case Studies: Change Comes from Within (rm. 603W); New Construction: Keep it Simple, Stupid! (rm. 615)
ALL SESSIONS QUALIFY FOR AIA, BPI & GBCI CREDITS. PLEASE SIGN IN TO RECEIVE YOUR CREDITS. TABLING: ConEdison, Association for Energy Affordability
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10:30AM - 12PM
SESSION TITLE/SPEAKERS
Room 615W
What’s a Benchmark, an Audit, and a Retrocommissioning?
Room 603W
Low Cost Upgrades—Big Impact Savings
Room 605W
Green, Healthy and Thrifty
Michael Bobker, Director, Building Performance Lab, CUNY Institute for Urban Systems Ariella Maron, Associate Principal, Happold Consulting Donna Hope, Policy Analyst, NYC Mayor's Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability
Peter, Mark & Daniel Bourbeau, PWB Management Group Brian Cheigh, Enterprise Community Partners
Erica Brabon, Steven Winter Associates Colleen Flynn, LISC New York City Deborah Nagin, Director, NYC Dept. of Health & Mental Hygiene for Lead Poisoning Prevention Program/Healthy Homes
1PM - 2:30PM
SESSION TITLE/SPEAKERS
Room 605W
Portfolio Wide Sustainability
Room 615W
Financing Energy Upgrades in Existing Multifamily Housing
Room 603W
Changing Individual Building Practices: Case Studies
Bomee Jung, Enterprise Community Partners Jeff Perlman, President, Bright Power, Inc
Andy Padian, Community Preservation Corporation Lindsay Robbins, NYSERDA Mark Thomson, ConEdison Christopher Diamond, NYC Energy Efficiency Corporation Thomas Webler, PWB Management Ryan Merkin, Steven Winter Associates Inc. Norman Williams, St. Nicks Alliance
2:45PM - 4:15PM Room 605W
Debunking Myths: Your Uncle Fred is Wrong!
Room 603W
Case Studies: Change Comes from Within
Room 615W
New Construction: Keep it Simple, Stupid!
Dan Rieber, Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation Tom Sahagian, Enterprise Community Partners
Steve Bluestone, The Bluestone Organization Norman Williams, St. Nick’s Alliance
Chris Benedict, Chris Benedict, R.A. Les Bluestone, BlueSea Construction Daniel Heyden, AIA, Principal, Design AIDD Architects, PLLC
SESSION TITLE/SPEAKERS
SESSION DESCRIPTION In 10 years, 33,000 buildings in NYC will be required to benchmark their buildings annually and deliver one energy audit and retrocommissioning report to DOB. The City and other government agencies, as well as competent energy auditing firms, are trying to make this process easier for building owners -- these requirements are coming up quickly. Learn from a City veteran, an auditor/retrocommission professional, and an owner about the requirements of NYC Local Laws (LL) 84 and 87, what the process involves, how to prepare, and what the benefits are. Do you know what your building is doing while you are sleeping? Every building owner wants to save money, right? Here are some low to no-cost measures that have gotten big savings! We will present real, low-cost upgrades and operation and maintenance tips and tricks, and show you how to implement these strategies across your buildings. Still doubtful? Then you’ll really appreciate our case studies that have saved actual money AND energy for owners. The opportunity to increase health and wellness of residents and staff in our buildings is huge and should not be overlooked. This session will cover all aspects of day to day resident, management and maintenance actions that affect health and wellness, strategies for changing practices with no increased cost and real examples of improving the quality of our indoor environment.
SESSION DESCRIPTION Do you have multiple buildings in your portfolio? Looking at a whole portfolio you can better assess where to invest in retrofits, as opposed to picking a property you assume can benefit from upgrades. Reviewing the whole portfolio first can minimize missed savings opportunities in outlier properties. We will share a portfolio-wide approach that focuses on identifying outlier energy users, building organizational capacity, and providing easy-to-use methods for daily operations and maintenance. In this session, you will learn how benchmarking, education, and operations and maintenance can save your whole portfolio energy and money. Sure, green is good, but how do I get the green to pay for it? There are traditional and creative methods to finance increased sustainability in your building, and some new City mandates that may require you to perform energy audits and retrocommissioning. Find out the latest programs that combine these initiatives and assist with costs, allowing your building to transition away from high-cost energy and water usage.
Tight budget? No problem! Learn how managers are restoring solvency in buildings with negative cash flow through savings in fuel and water. Through case studies of actual NYC buildings that have reduced their costs significantly, learn about important decisions of what to upgrade and when, and what these decisions do for the capital resources of each individual building. This session demonstrates how energy and water savings can be realized with multiple levels of capital improvements.
SESSION DESCRIPTION We hear absolutes in the energy efficiency field all of the time, and they’re wrong 99.9% of the time. Hear three seasoned professionals skewer the biggest myths that they have each encountered and debunked in their careers: Energy Management Systems, Windows, Solar Panels, Green Roofs, Ground Source Heat Pumps, Windmills, magic boxes, and more. Do they work or not? You’ll know after this session. This session will showcase a new model of owners and managers who embrace energy efficiency and sustainable technologies. These managers don’t leave the building systems to the engineering consultants or leave facility operations solely to the building’s superintendent; they know that with today’s increased costs and complexity, it is critical that everyone understands how their buildings work, and that changing their approach and organization is a worthwhile learning curve. Concern about incremental costs and complexity in new construction is touted by many as the primary reason for not building more sustainably. This session will examine simple affordable technologies and practices that meet or exceed code yet do not dramatically increase construction costs. Case studies will show projects which required no increased capital costs, and owners that saw dramatic reduction in operational costs (energy usage and maintenance) and increased occupant comfort.
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