Building Tech Forum 2024

Event Program

Built Environment Plus envisions a thriving and diverse community, creating a built environment of net positive systems of water and energy, of financial and social equity, and of ecological and human health.

Tonight let’s see what innovations in building technology are advancing us towards this vision.

The Agenda

5:30 – 6:00pm

Networking + Welcoming

6:00 – 6:20pm

Presenter Spotlight

6:30 – 7:20pm

Presentations

7:20 – 7:50pm

Networking

7:50 – 8:35pm

Presentations

8:35 – 9:30pm

Networking

Education Tracks

STANTEC TRACK - ROOM 160

Vicinity Energy
Rick Smith
The Easy Way to Decarbonize Boston and Cambridge

Arup
Camila Salomon
Low-tech, high-impact approach to decarbonization at scale

BR+A
Tammy Ngo
Decarbonization of existing lab buildings

BXP
Neetu Siddarth
Existing Building Decarb: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle

Embue
Robert Cooper
Decarbonizing multifamily buildings by getting people, building systems and the grid working together through a smart building system

LuxWall
Leigh Anne Mays
Impact of Glass Only Retrofit on Carbon Emissions

Mitsubishi Electric
Evan Bissonnette
Retrofitting Rooftop Units with Heat Pumps

Boston Community Solar Cooperative
Gregory King
Community Ownership of Solar Energy Generation

BSA
Kristen Fritsch & Barbra BatShalom
Boston Low Carbon Concrete Stakeholders Project

Builders for Climate Action
Jacob Deva Racusin
BEAM Tool: Reducing Material Carbon Emissions Has Never Been More Fun!

Sublime Systems
Mitch Clark
Electrochemical Cement Production and the Path to Zero Emissions

Symetri
Clarke Morrison
Democratizing LCA within Revit

TimberHP
Scott Johnston & Addie Atkins
Solving Performance and Material Challenges Using Wood Fiber Insulation

Spare-it
Laurent Canneva
More Data Less Waste

New Frameworks
Jacob Deva Racusin
New Frameworks Panels: Agricultural Carbon Storage Solutions for the Built Environment

USGBC TRACK - ROOM 170

Solar Design Associates
Steven Strong
Running on Sunshine: Getting to Net Zero and Beyond

Brightcore Energy
Jonathan Hernandez
Geothermal Innovations for Built Environment Sustainability

Bala Consulting Engineers
Susan Z. O’Neill
Enhancing IAQ in a Net Zero Building with Heat Recovery Technology

BuildingEase
Barbra BatShalom
BuildingEase: Your Materials Easy Button!

Eversource
Kim Cullinane
Mass Save Program Support as Market Transformation Catalyst

Gorman Richardson Lewis Architects
Scott Richardson
GRLA BE+ Tech Forum June 5, 2024

USGBC
Monique Owens & Tia Metzger
Commitment to Action: LEED v5

The HAPI
Ann Sussman
Biometrics as the new Lens to ‘see’ Buildings + Ourselves

HTS
Jon Zuber
Turning Wastewater into Watts: How You Can Recover Energy from Your Wastewater

Steven Winter Associates
Shari Rauls
Humidity and Variable Refrigerant Flow Operation in Multifamily Buildings

Rockwool
Robert Blount
Advanced Wall System Design for Performance, Sustainability and Improved Analysis of Embodied Carbon

Reframe Systems
Jessica Boatright & Felipe Polido
Reframe Systems: Unlocking climate-friendly housing for all

Shawmut Design & Construction
Elizabeth Murphy
eDNA as a Metric for Measuring Ecological Restoration

Superior Essex International LP
Luke Dias
Pathways to More Sustainable Connectivity

Nitsch Engineering
Jess Wala
Designing for Water: Understanding Impacts for Resilience

REVISION ENERGY TRACK - ROOM 180

Interface
Sherlie Battiato
Going “all in” to Meet the Climate Crisis

Enersion
Victoria Pisini
Weathering the Future: Refrigerant-Free, Highly-Efficient Heating & Cooling Systems by Enersion

Roger
Elijah Zenger
Smooth Operators: Eliminating Waste Through Better Construction Management

Green Badger
Tommy Linstroth
Making Sustainability Transparent and Accessible For the Design and Construction Industry

The Green Engineer, Inc.
Michael Munn
WELL for Residential – A Healthy Home Rating System

National Grid
Ryan Bradley
National Grid EV Charging Incentives For New and Existing Buildings

Lam Partners
Dan Weissman
Lighten Up! Reducing Lighting’s Carbon Footprint

WSP
Adam Jennings & Rosie Osser
Decarbonization in Action: Local and National Tales

75F
David Koerner
Upgrading buildings with AI and IoT via Mass Save

Buro Happold
Maria Navarro
Delivering meaningful results before EUI – Early facade optioneering using space heating demand

DXS
Lilly Nardelli
The Next Wave of VRV Air-Source Heat Pumps: Hot Water Heating

Adept Materials
DQ Stolt
Adept Materials Climate-regulating Paint

ReVision Energy
James Penfold
Ride the Wave of EV Adoption: Navigating the Latest Charging Technology and Incentives

Suffolk Technologies
Jonson Berman
BOOST: How Suffolk Technologies Accelerates Innovation in the Built Environment

BuildingGreen
Brent Ehrlich
Top Green Building Products for 2024