Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA)

NESEA Green Building Pro Tour: Cape Cod Hemp House, May 20, Harwich Port, MA

This May Pro Tour will showcase a recently built hemplime-insulated home on Cape Cod. The project team is eager to share their collaborative approach for creating a home that met their client’s vision for a net-zero, storm-resistant, healthy materials home. Attendees of this tour will learn how non-standard materials and decisions around mechanical systems were used to dramatically reduce the carbon footprint and to improve the health...

NESEA Green Building Pro Tour: Carbon Neutral Mixed-Use Building In Hudson Valley, New Paltz, NY, May 13, 1 pm EST

For this green building tour, NESEA returns to the Hudson Valley for a tour of Zero Place, an award-winning mixed-use building, poised to bring the town of New Paltz 6 commercial and 46 residential units.  This four-story, 63,280 square foot building has been constructed with insulated concrete form (ICF) walls. The rooftop PV array is designed to offset 100% of the onsite energy demand from the residential apartments and associated...

NESEA Pro Green Building Tour, Midrise CLT Passive House in Boston, April 29, 1-5 pm

This April Pro Tour will showcase a 7-story mass timber CLT building, currently under construction. Attendees will learn about both the technical details of the project and about the highly collaborative approach that made this ambitious work possible. The project is poised to become the first of its kind in the Boston area, and attendees will tour the residences at the peak of construction, granting them a ‘behind-the-scenes’...

NESEA Pro Green Building Tour, March 25, 2-5:30 pm: Passive House Retrofit of a Brooklyn Heights Carriage House, Brooklyn, NY

Join NESEA for the first Pro Tour of 2022, an in-person event showcasing a Passive House retrofit of an 1800s Brooklyn Heights carriage house. During this event, attendees will learn about the key goals of the renovation, including historic preservation and improving environmental performance. After an opening presentation led by host Baxt Ingui Architects, attendees will split into small groups. We'll hear multiple members of the team...

NESEA's BuildingEnergy Boston, February 28-March 1

BuildingEnergy Boston is a conference designed by and for practitioners in the fields of high-performance building and design, energy efficiency, and renewable energy. It brings more than 1,000 industry leaders and emerging professionals together to learn from and share ideas with each other. Sessions are curated by a volunteer NESEA-Member content committee to ensure that conference sessions are genuinely useful to attendees. BuildingEnergy...

NESEA Virtual Green Building Pro Tour: Affordable Passive Housing & Non-Profit Community Facility, June 18, 12:30pm

Join this virtual Pro Tour to go behind-the-scenes with members of the team responsible for the Tree of Life project, a new building in Queens that will include 174 units of Passive House certified housing, a community health center, and a community facility operated by the First Presbyterian Church of Jamaica. Hear how the project team worked together to satisfy both high performance certification goals and the needs of the community the...

BuildingEnergy Boston, Presented by NESEA, Online, May 5 - 7

BuildingEnergy Boston is a conference designed by and for practitioners in the fields of high-performance building and design, energy efficiency, and renewable energy. It brings more than 1,000 industry leaders and emerging professionals together to learn from and share ideas with each other. Sessions are curated by a volunteer NESEA-Member content committee to ensure that conference sessions are genuinely useful to attendees. The 2021...

NESEA Green Building Virtual Pro Tour: Historic NYC Firehouse to Modern Passive House, Friday, April 16

his virtual Pro Tour will offer participants a behind-the-scenes look at a unique renovation currently underway in Manhattan: the transformation of a historic firehouse into 4 units of PHI-certified passive housing. The project team is aiming for PHI EnerPhit certification and will detail some of the specific challenges and opportunities associated with bringing a DER to an urban building of this scale. About the Event Through a mix of...

Take a Protailor Green Building Pro Tour 3/20 with NESEA, Placetailor

Join NESEA for a Boston-area Green Building Pro Tour hosted by Placetailor. This Pro Tour will showcase two different projects, including the Hawthorne Youth Community Center and the Lamartine Lofts, located on the cusp of Jamaica Plain and Roxbury, MA. Placetailor tour guides will talk about high performance structures, community engagement and education, and the realities of working in tight urban spaces. Tour a high performance multifamily...

NESEA Green Building Virtual Pro Tour: 1890s Farmhouse to Super Insulated Commercial Space, November 13, 12:30pm - 2:30pm EDT

Join NESEA for this interactive event, hosted by Garland Mill, featuring a deep dive into the conversion of a 1890s farmhouse that has been transformed into a super insulated building providing space for arts and education nonprofits in Littleton, NH. Just like an in-person Pro Tour, this event will mix presentation with small group conversation, giving participants the chance to meet project team members and one another.  About the...

NESEA Green Building Virtual Pro Tour: North America's Largest Affordable Passive House, November 6, 12:30 - 2:30 pm EST

This virtual Pro Tour will offer participants a behind-the-scenes look at one of the most ambitious PHIUS+ projects in New York City: an innovative fifteen-story building providing 154-units of sustainable housing. NESEA is working with hosting firm and Passive House consultant and verifier Bright Power to offer this follow-up event to last year's sold out tour of this site. About the Event: Through a mix of presentation and small...

BuildingEnergy NYC, Online, September 23-24

Now in its ninth year, BuildingEnergy NYC is a conference designed by and for practitioners in the fields of high-performance building and design, energy efficiency, and renewable energy. Last year's event brought more than 400 professionals from across the industry together to learn from and network with one another. Every year, sessions are chosen by a committee of NESEA Members and highlight best practices and lessons learned. The...

BuildingEnergy Boston Conference + Trade Show: Transforming Existing Buildings (Now Online! Note New Dates!) August 12-14, Boston, MA

** BuildingEnergy Boston will now take place August 13-14.  Stay tuned for updates! ** BuildingEnergy Boston Conference + Trade Show is an event designed by and for practitioners in the fields of high-performance building and design, energy efficiency, and renewable energy. It brings more than 1,200 industry leaders and emerging professionals together to learn from and share ideas with each other. The theme of BuildingEnergy Boston 2020 is...

NESEA Pro Green Building Tour - Solar Powered State Agency Headquarters, September 13, Westborough, MA

Join the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA) for this early autumn Pro Tour, hosted by Solar Design Associates. The tour will showcase the new Massachusetts Fish & Wildlife Headquarters, a 45,000 square foot, net-positive LEED Platinum facility. The facility features an open, day-lit plan that includes offices, a library, flexible meeting rooms. laboratory and classroom space and supports a staff of 120 people.

NESEA Green Building Pro Tour: Environmental Education Center Built for LBC Zero Energy Certification, 9/14, Lincoln, MA

This Pro Tour will feature the Massachusetts Audubon Society’s new net zero environmental learning center. During this event, attendees will learn how the team at Maclay Architects approached balancing the energy and conservation goals of this project while designing a space that best supports the needs of the occupants. The Massachusetts Audubon Society recently adopted a net zero green building standard. The new learning center was...

NESEA Pro Green Building Tour - Storm-Ready, NZE Single-Family Home, Harvard, MA- June 1st

Site Details Units: 1 single family home Square Footage: 2,000 Type of construction: New - still under construction HERS pending: -10 to 10 17.08kW photovoltaic system Surplus energy stored for outages or used to charge vehicles

NESEA Pro Green Building Tour, NZE Multi-Family Housing, Friday, April 20, Northampton, MA

NESEA Pro Green Building Tour - New NZE Multi-family Housing Northampton, MA Friday, April 20, 2018 CEUs: 3.0 AIA LU/HSW pending; certificates of attendance provided to all attendees Site Details: -Units: 4 duplexes, 8 homes -Square Footage: 8,944 in 8 units -Type of construction: New -One-floor configuration on thermal slab -Combustion-free homes, designed to perform at net zero or better with a 10K solar system -HERS ratings 41 to...

NESEA Pro Tour - NZE Community College Health and Science Center at Bristol Community College - Fall River, MA

Attendees on this Pro Tour will learn how the Zero Net Energy (ZNE) design for this large institutional building developed without increasing costs, despite the cold climate and high-energy needs of the health and science equipment the occupants rely on. Completed in 2016, the John J. Sbrega Health and Science Building is occupied by multiple disciplines within the Sciences and Health Professions at Bristol Community College. In addition to...

NESEA Green Building Pro Tour - 2 Sites! - DER Grist Mill & Net Zero Home, Friday, November 3, 1 to 5pm - Plainfield, MA

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 through a phased deep-energy retrofit process. Site 1 Details: Plainfield Net Zero Home This single-family, net-zero home combines modern high-performance materials and the classic design of an old world European cottage. The result is an...

NESEA Green Building Pro Tour - New England's Largest Passive House, Friday June 9, Boston

Green Building Pro Tour - New England's Largest Passive House Northeast Sustainable Energy Association Friday June 9 Boston, Massachusetts CEUs Pending: 2.5 AIA LU/HSW, 2.0 BPI, and certificates of participation are available Join NESEA for a tour of the Distillery North, the largest Passive House in New England: a cost-competitive 30 unit apartment building located in South Boston. This is the first phase of a three phase project...

NESEA Green Building Pro Tour - 18th Century Building Retrofitted For Living Building Challenge, Friday April 21, Williamstown, MA

Green Building Pro Tour - 18th Century Building Retrofitted For Living Building Challenge Northeast Sustainable Energy Association Friday, April 21 Williamstown, Massachusetts CEUs Pending: 2.5 AIA LU/HSW, 2.0 BPI, and certificates of participation are available Aerial of science centerThis Pro Tour will bring attendees to the Williams College campus for a close look at an academic center built to the stringent standards of the Living...