On March 9-10, the 27th annual GLOBALCON Expo will be held in Boston's Hynes Convention Center! Along with this year's expo will be a conference, seminars, and workshops that allow attendees to discover new products, techniques, solutions and services, and network with industry professionals.
USGBC MA has obtained free tickets to the Expo for any of our Members that wish to attend, and we also have a handful of remaining discounted tickets to the full conference for a special rate of $595 (which is a $300 discount). This package would include: admission to the multitrack conference sessions, a pass to attend the exposition, a copy of the Show Proceedings, as well as luncheons in the exhibit hall.
Lastly, if you plan on attending the exposition, make sure to stop by our booth! We are also looking for volunteers to man the booth if anybody is interested. Here is more info about the event, taken from the website:
WHY GLOBALCON
Decision makers from business, industry and government must now seek integrated energy solutions — solutions which assure both a secure and affordable energy supply to meet today's and tomorrow's needs, and effective management of energy and overall operational costs. The GLOBALCON Expo will emphasize four critical areas of leading edge technology and related services:
✓ Energy Management, HVAC and Smart Building Systems
✓ Renewables, Alternative Energy and Onsite Generation
✓ Lighting Efficiency and Integrated Energy Solutions
✓ Plant and Facilities Management
Presented By…
GLOBALCON 2016, presented by the Association of Energy Engineers, is designed specifically to facilitate those seeking to expand their knowledge of fast-moving developments in the energy field, explore promising new technologies, compare energy supply options, and learn about innovative and cost-conscious project implementation strategies.
Hosted By…
National Grid, Platinum Sponsoring Partner to USGBC MA, is committed to delivering safe and reliable energy to customers and communities across Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island. They work closely across the energy industry, connecting tradespersons, contractors, regulators, and energy supply representatives to deliver quality services to their customers.
Register now for Hacking LEED: v4 Innovation and Performance on Tuesday, March 8, 2016, from 10:00am to 1:00pm!
Hosted by the USGBC MA Chapter, this course will cover how to use the updated and mandated LEED v4 to raise the bar on energy & environmental performance in buildings, how to transition from the current LEED 2009 system to the LEED v4, how pilot credits and innovation credits fit in, and how legacy projects registered in v2009 are subject to changing requirements even now. This year, LEED v4 is here and you'll be using it, so learn from practitioners who are already waist-deep in the v4 waters.
The best pricing for the BuildingEnergy Boston ends January 29th, so don't miss the earlybird registration!
Please join the USGBC on Thursday February 11th@6:30pm for our Annual Sustainable Dinner at the Commonwealth Restaurant; co-hosted with the Illuminating Engineers Society (IES).
We will enjoy a delicious & sustainable meal of the freshest locally sourced ingredients created by Chef Nookie; along with an educational presentation on the health effects of artificial lighting by our sponsor Jane Slade, RAB Lighting https://www.rabweb.com/:
Since the industrial revolution and the invention of the electric lightbulb, we spend more and more time bathed in artificial light. How do the artificial light and lack of darkness impact our bodies, and how does the illumination of our exterior environment impact wildlife?
According to the Connecticut Green Bank's quarterly report, there is an accumulated $54 million in projects funded by C-PACE. This was made possible by the Connecticut Green Bank, the first green bank in the United States. The report states that $107,228,861 worth of energy costs have been saved, and that 12.1 megawatts of clean energy have been deployed due to C-PACE financing.
While there has been no update in the realm of Massachusetts's PACE legislation, it is encouraging to see one of our neighboring states moving forward with this innovative tool for spreading clean energy. Hopefully this example will show legislators that PACE will work in Massachusetts! The USGBC MA Chapter’s Advocacy Committee has formed a PACE Coalition which includes a broad array of stakeholders, including members representing constituencies including real estate, renewable and energy efficiency project developers, environmentalists, labor, construction, and finance interests. The Coalition is open to new members to join at any time – if interested, please contact me, your USGBC MA Advocacy Fellow, Anthony Lucivero.
Click here to learn more from our PACE financing background page, and here to see what PACENation has to say!
It's that time again; newsletter time! We have an excellent edition this month, and it can be read here in our archives. Enjoy a preview below:
A 2016 Kick-off: Gearing up to Scale!
It's an exciting year for the Chapter: we have big plans in 2016 (and of course 2017 with Greenbuild hosted in Boston)!
It's also noteworthy to acknowledge USGBC's recognition of Massachusetts as having produced the third most certified green building space (per capita) in the US in 2015. That's right, we moved from #4 in 2014 to #3 this past year. This is a testament to the hard work that our green building pros (and especially LEED project admins) are doing to attain certifications. Nice work, people!
Coming up in 2016: The Building Tech Forum on 4/21/16 and a Resilience Expo in July. Let me know if you like the subjects and want to be involved. In just about a month there are two big gatherings for our green building pros: NESEA's “BuildingEnergy16” in the Seaport of Boston. If you need a deep dive on LEED v4 or to explore LEED ND – sessions are Tuesday, 3/8, for your educational needs. Also, hosted by our sponsoring partner National Grid, the Association of Energy Engineers' “GLOBALCON” in Boston's Back Bay.
We are growing our educational programming and collaborating with more of our peer organization friends to connect more people more meaningfully throughout our industry. Our committees and working groups are super-charged and we have a great new Board of Directors – as elected at our recent Annual General Meeting.
Thank you, gentle reader, for supporting what we do to advance the cause of Green Buildings in Massachusetts. Look at everything we have going on below. I hope we see you soon at an upcoming program.
-Grey and the team (Maria, Ryan, Anthony and Celis as seen above)
Craig Foley is the chief of energy solutions for RE/MAX Leading Edge, and founder of Sustainable Real Estate Consulting Services. Craig is a leading advocate for high-performance buildings in the Northeast.
Craig’s combination of real estate and energy management skills give him a unique perspective about sustainable energy solutions. He is the author of the first reports on high-performance home market in Massachusetts in 2012 and 2013. He was named by RE/MAX New England as the “Realtor of the Month” for March 2013. Craig was one of five people in the United States to receive the EverGreen Award by the National Association of REALTORS® Green REsource Council in 2013 for his advocacy of the green real estate industry in 2013.
He worked with the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (MA DOER) on an initiative to create a continuing education course for real estate agents called High-Performance, Green Homes in Residential Real Estate. It was approved as a continuing education course for Massachusetts real estate agents as RE86R14 in July, 2014. The course was also approved for CE credits in New Hampshire and Vermont. Other consulting work includes a project to implement “auto-pop” capabilities of solar PV information into the multiple listing service (MLS) with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and several projects with Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships to assist real estate market participants with energy efficiency training and resources, including the Home Energy Labelling Information Exchange (HELIX) initiative.
Craig is also a public speaker and has been engaged by organizations such as the nationally syndicated “Real Estate Today” Radio, National Association of Home Builders IBS 2016, Greenbuild 2015, Northeast Energy Efficiency Summit, Affordable Comfort, Inc, the U.S. Green Building Council, ISO New England, Northeast Sustainable Energy Association, the Appraisal Institute, TEDxSomerville, and the National Association of Realtors®. He is also a Massachusetts certified real estate instructor.
Craig serves as the Advocacy Coordinator for the MA Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council, for his work in 2013 the MA Chapter awarded him its “Advocacy Volunteer of the Year”. He led a group of stakeholders to recommend green data field updates for the region's predominant multiple listing service. The new data fields were implemented in January, 2015.
Craig serves as an Advisory Board member of the NAR Green REsource Council. He currently serves on NAR’s Land Use, Privacy Rights, and Environment Committee, as well as the Member Mobilization Task Force for the Massachusetts Association of Realtors® (MAR). He also served MAR as a participant on a subcommittee to rewrite the association’s energy policy.
For more information on Craig’s consulting projects please see his website.
