Shoebox Energy Modeling: How To Do Quick, Early Simulations will be shown on 12/15/15 in Cambridge at noon. Most whole building energy simulations require a mechanical system design, making them unsuitable for early-design modeling. By the time you’re sizing mechanical systems and debating the finer points of shading mechanisms, you know you’ve missed some really big energy-saving opportunities. Learn from the architects and energy modelers who are turning to shoebox models—with one or just a few zones— to capture big energy, design, and construction savings.
New Construction & Philadelphia’s Energy Benchmarking Law will be shown on 12/16/15 in Boston at 4:30. Energy benchmarking and disclosure mandates are a growing national trend. Although these policies are geared towards existing buildings, there is a unique opportunity to impact the new construction industry as well. This session is intended to educate design professionals, energy services providers, and commercial building owners about the importance of optimizing the energy performance of new buildings and how to achieve the best results using integrated design, energy modeling, EPA's Target Finder, and more. We will also review Philadelphia's energy benchmarking and disclosure law, Year 2 results, and current green codes and standards, which will be beneficial to policy makers who have recently adopted or are considering similar legislation.
Geothermal Heating and Cooling: A Renewable Energy Technology will be shown on 12/21/15 in Worcester at 6pm. This course will cover several critical topics surrounding our industry today in the world of geothermal heating and cooling. You will learn the basic principles of the geothermal heat pump technology and we will discuss some of the misconceptions that often arise in today’s market. You will walk away with an understanding of how and why geothermal heat pumps systems are so incredibly energy efficient and gain a general understanding of how the four basic systems are designed and work for each job application.
Embodied Carbon: The Critical Juncture Where Sustainability Meets Building Structure will be shown on 11/18/15 in Boston at 4:30. It will dive into building life cycle assessment, analysis of embodied carbon, and many things a structural engineer can do to reduce embodied energy and embodied carbon in buildings. The focus is on how structural engineers can reduce embodied cardon in buildings, but this course has valuable information for anyone involved in sustainable building.
Don't Build Here: Site Selection Strategies to Protect Our Wild Spaces will be shown on 11/18/15 in Worcester at 6pm. It will focus on selecting a sustainable site for building a LEED project. This course is great for anyone involved in sustainable buildings that wants to reduce the environmental impact from the site selection process for buildings. Participants will learn how to achieve the Sensitive Land Protection credit for the LEED v4 BD+C rating systems and how to utilize tools such as the NRCS web based soil surveys, FEMA Flood Map Service Center, and NatureServe.
Deep Material Vetting That Won’t Chew Through Your Design Budget will be shown on 11/12/15 in Cambridge at noon. This webinar will explore the new rules surrounding product vetting, materials transparency, and toxicity screening for building materials in your projects. Our experts Chris Lee and Scott Kelly of Re:Vision Architecture also have a rare specialty in product vetting for the Living Building Challenge Red List. Chris and Scott have gotten so good that they travel around, teaching their no-more-tears research strategies and time-saving workflows to other building professionals. And now they're sharing their wisdom in this webcast.
Embodied Carbon: The Critical Juncture Where Sustainability Meets Building Structure will be shown on 11/18/15 in Boston at 4:30. It will dive into building life cycle assessment, analysis of embodied carbon, and many things a structural engineer can do to reduce embodied energy and embodied carbon in buildings. The focus is on how structural engineers can reduce embodied cardon in buildings, but this course has valuable information for anyone involved in sustainable building.
Don't Build Here: Site Selection Strategies to Protect Our Wild Spaces will be shown on 11/18/15 in Worcester at 6pm. It will focus on selecting a sustainable site for building a LEED project. This course is great for anyone involved in sustainable buildings that wants to reduce the environmental impact from the site selection process for buildings. Participants will learn how to achieve the Sensitive Land Protection credit for the LEED v4 BD+C rating systems and how to utilize tools such as the NRCS web based soil surveys, FEMA Flood Map Service Center, and NatureServe.
Deep Material Vetting That Won’t Chew Through Your Design Budget will be shown on 11/12/15 in Cambridge at noon. This webinar will explore the new rules surrounding product vetting, materials transparency, and toxicity screening for building materials in your projects. Our experts Chris Lee and Scott Kelly of Re:Vision Architecture also have a rare specialty in product vetting for the Living Building Challenge Red List. Chris and Scott have gotten so good that they travel around, teaching their no-more-tears research strategies and time-saving workflows to other building professionals. And now they're sharing their wisdom in this webcast.
Embodied Carbon: The Critical Juncture Where Sustainability Meets Building Structure will be shown on 11/18/15 in Boston at 4:30. It will dive into building life cycle assessment, analysis of embodied carbon, and many things a structural engineer can do to reduce embodied energy and embodied carbon in buildings. The focus is on how structural engineers can reduce embodied cardon in buildings, but this course has valuable information for anyone involved in sustainable building.
Don't Build Here: Site Selection Strategies to Protect Our Wild Spaces will be shown on 11/18/15 in Worcester at 6pm. It will focus on selecting a sustainable site for building a LEED project. This course is great for anyone involved in sustainable buildings that wants to reduce the environmental impact from the site selection process for buildings. Participants will learn how to achieve the Sensitive Land Protection credit for the LEED v4 BD+C rating systems and how to utilize tools such as the NRCS web based soil surveys, FEMA Flood Map Service Center, and NatureServe.
Coming up next week we have three exciting and informative in-person webinars to check out: Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), California Schools Connect the Drops, and BIMagination: From 3D to 5D.
During the Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) you will learn about how EPDs specify products that have verified improved environmental life cycle impacts, such as reduced global warming, acidification of our lakes and oceans, smog creation and ozone depletion. We'll discuss how it is developed, what information it can convey, and how product disclosures like EPD are recognized in LEED v4.
The California Schools Connect the Drops webinar explores a case study of schools in California that worked towards Net Positive Water through regulatory education and demonstration and raising standards through innovative building and site water management strategies. Collection of rainwater, stormwater, below grade and greywater sources are coupled with restoration, student involvement, and community commitment to achieve progress.
In the BIMagination: From 3D to 5D webinar we'll explore Building Information Modeling (BIM), which enables designers and project teams to model various building elements, components, and configurations to achieve optimal energy usage and green building functionality. BIM is likely to become an industry standard for green building in the future, so join to get a comprehensive look at how BIM is being utilized by design, construction, and operations professionals.
