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Free Webinar: Rheem Proterra Hybrid Electric Water Heater 101, November 3, 10:30am - 11am
The newest Rheem® Proterra Hybrid Electric Water Heater is easy to sell, install and service. It’s the most efficient water heater available, offering free cooling as a side benefit of where
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IAQ & Energy 2025, December 9, Portland, Maine
IAQ & Energy 2025 includes all the components to design, construct, operate and repair healthy, environmentally-sustainable indoor spaces, for the health and well-being of building occupants.
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First-timers and seasoned professionals who attend this course will gain a firm understanding of the most current hydronic testing and balancing practices. This NCI-exclusive two-day course is a perfe
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HEW2025 - Heating Electrification Workshop - October 20-22, Princeton, New Jersey
States in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic have committed to widespread adoption of highly efficient heat pumps by 2030. These aggressive goals aim to stabilize energy costs, improve health, and cut cli
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Illinois Solar AND Storage Tour, September 25, Chicago, Illinois
The Solar AND Storage Tour is a series of FREE events that feature homes, businesses, and nonprofits throughout the state that have installed both solar and storage on their property. Many s
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Periodic Testing and Balancing for Existing Buildings, Online, August 20, 2 pm ET
Discover how regular TAB practices can maintain system efficiency, enhance indoor environmental quality, and reduce operational costs in existing buildings.
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Join for a morning at Carbon Reform HQ, where the Green Building United team will dive into how breakthrough technology is tackling energy efficiency and indoor air quality for more sus
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Join Illinois Green to learn how the project team at Encuentro Square successfully delivered sustainable, affordable housing with a special focus on resident health and wellbeing in Chicago&
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With climate action in the spotlight and political uncertainty shaping priorities, getting funding for clean energy and sustainability projects is both more urgent and more complicated than ever. This
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Webinar: Basic Building Science 01: Understanding Heat Transfer (Recorded: Content Available 24/7)
Recorded Webinar: Basic Building Science 01: Understanding Heat Transfer
Recorded: May 1, 2020
Speakers: Mike Barcik, Joey Starr & Mike Ford
Cost: $15
Southface experts Mike
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Webinar: Introduction to LEED v4 & v4.1, December 17, 9-10:30 AM EDT
Join for a 101 introductory class on LEED v4 with information on a credit by credit basis, an explanation on where LEED is headed in the future and how credit substitutions for v4.1 are allowed f
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Webinar: Urban Green -- The Great Energy Disconnect, December 8, 10 am
With commercial occupancy down 90 percent in NYC buildings due to COVID-19, energy has been reduced just 30 percent. What’s behind this great energy disconnect? Can lessons be found for our
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USGBC Webinar: LEED and Beyond -- Healthy and Sustainable Product Trends, December 3, 9 am PST
The training will cover the requirements, documentation types, documentation development processes, and available resources to achieve the following LEED v4/4.1 BD+C NC and ID+C CI/Retail materials-re
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100% renewable energy is possible! But to get there we have to deal with the realities of a brittle electrical grid, when the sun doesn’t always shine and the wind doesn’t always blow. How can bui…
Online Training: CALGreen Codes and Standards Education and Virtual Training, October 23,12 pm PST
CALGreen is California’s first green building code and the first nation state-mandated green building code. It is formally known as the California Green Building Standards Code. The purpose of C
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This webinar is designed to help building design and construction professionals understand how to use environmental product declarations in the procurement process and credit achievement for LEED v4 b
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Learn how Santa Monica’s reach code, along with changes to 2019 Title 24, are making it preferable to build all-electric residential buildings that are better, faster, safer and less costly than
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The Value of Energy Analysis, from Design Day One, August 8
This interactive program will provide attendees with a charrette experience for evaluating and driving building energy performance—to analyze results in real time, as early as pre-design. During thi…
Living Building Tour - Hitchcock Center, July 19, Amherst
The Hitchcock Center for the Environment has constructed a world-class, 9,000 square foot environmental education center built to meet the Living Building Challenge. Opened to the public in Fall, 2016…
New England Regional Passive House Gathering, June 23
Strategic meeting of the New England Passive House Groups followed by local tours and topped with phME's Annual meeting and Members Gathering
The Future of SREC, June 21, 8:30-10 am, Boston
Massachusetts is in the third cycle of solar incentive development. What we have known as the SREC program is developing into a block incentive program with a flat rate incentive, named SMART (Solar M…
Spring Greenbuild Mixer and Farewell Toast to Grey! USGBC MA - May 25, 2017, 5:30-8 pm, Boston
Greenbuild 2017 is about six months from now, and while it might sound far off, it's never too early to get the party going! We will be celebrating the biggest green building conference of the year w…
Attendees of this event will get to tour two very different projects: a newly construction net-zero house and a former grist mill, built in 1850, that has been converted into a residence and offices t…
The Generator’s Perspective: The Outlook for Coal, Gas, and Nuclear Power Under Trump
Join the Frank J. Guarini Center for Environmental, Energy, and Land Use Law for a panel discussion with energy industry experts on the legal, regulatory and market factors affecting the outlook for c…
International Living Future Institute -Living Product Challenge Coordinator - Pittsburgh, PA
JOB DESCRIPTION TITLE: Living Product Challenge Coordinator STATUS: Regular, exempt position REPORTS TO: Manager, Living Product Challenge HOURS: Full-time STARTING SALARY: $40,000-$55,00…
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