We have extended the deadlines to purchase and submit Building Decarb Intervention award entries to 5pm on Monday, October 6th. Apply promo code DECARB100 for your discounted entry.
Built Environment Plus has launched a new award category for the 2025 Green Building Showcase to recognize strategies and interventions that increase energy efficiency and reduce emissions of existing buildings.
As part of its work developing the Massachusetts Building Performance Exchange, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, this new award will shine a bright light on the innovative and impactful work already underway to transform large, out-of-date existing buildings into modern, energy efficient and healthy buildings.
To better promote this new award, BE+ is offering deep discounts on all entries to this category. All award entries for the Building Decarb Intervention Award will be just $100 instead of the typical $350 entry fee, and will also include one ticket to the October 30th GBS Awards Program & Celebration in the Seaport. See below for details.
As buildings account for around 35% of greenhouse gas emissions in Massachusetts, and roughly 80% of the buildings that will exist in 2050 have already been built, we have to get really smart about how we tackle the carbon emissions of our existing building stock. The submitted project should have a product or practice that is high impact, innovative, and replicable, in order to help Massachusetts cut emissions at scale.
This new award builds on the success of the Existing Building Interventions and Innovations track at the 2025 Building Tech Forum, which had 39 submissions for 15 presentation slots. Attendees heard Dr. Emily Reichert, CEO of MassCEC, lay out Massachusetts’ leadership role in developing a thriving climatetech ecosystem to address some of the biggest challenges facing the Commonwealth. It’s the perfect complement to our re-named Sustainable Whole-Building Renovation award, and we look forward to including both in future GBS awards programs.
The deadline for all Award Entry purchases is 5pm on September 30th. The September 30th deadline for award submissions will be extended for this category only, but only if the entry is purchased by the deadline.
For more details you can visit the GBS ‘25 Awards Program webpage or download the Call for Entries.
For the discount, apply promo code DECARB100 to an Award Entry purchase here.
About the Building Performance Exchange
BE+ is working with MassCEC to accelerate market transformation for larger building energy retrofits through knowledge sharing, training, peer-to-peer interaction, and targeted research. The Exchange will make retrofitting existing buildings easier through a library of guides, case studies, and webinars. It will create a community of professionals with the expertise to transform large, out-of-date existing buildings into modern, energy efficient and healthy buildings. https://builtenvironmentplus.org/exchange
About Green Building Showcase
Once a year, the BE+ community gathers to celebrate industry success in greening the built environment. The evening consists of a cocktail reception in a showcase of project boards, short presentations, discussions, and the awards program. Attendees include architects, engineers, contractors, developers, owners, facility managers, building users, lenders, suppliers – everyone who plays a role in designing, operating, and constructing the built environment.
https://builtenvironmentplus.org/greenbuildingshowcase
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