Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA)

NESEA Pro Green Building Tour: Net Zero Energy Modular Home & Factory Tour, September 20, Greenwood, Maine

Join NESEA for this special Pro Tour event and visit a new, free-standing single-family home and the modular manufacturing facility where it was pre-fabricated. We’ll begin our event with an opening presentation from our hosts, BrightBuilt Home. We’ll learn about the collaboration between BrightBuilt and the manufacturer, design and energy considerations, and about their approach to sustainable, modular housing. Attendees...

NESEA Pro Tour of Net Zero Energy Retrofit and Expansion of a 1782 Vermont Farmhouse, August 9, Reading

Join NESEA for a summer Pro Tour of a 1782 Vermont Farmhouse that recently completed a zero-energy retrofit and expansion in beautiful Reading, Vermont. This project combines an energy retrofit on a historic Cape and a high-performance vernacular addition built off-site to create a net zero energy building with reduced embodied carbon. The building was designed to blend into its rural setting, connect the living spaces to the surrounding...

NESEA Pro Builder Green Building Tour: Under Construction Passive House Development in Northern CT, June 7, 12:30 - 5 pm

On June 7, NESEA is offering a tour of a new passive house rental community that is currently under construction in Storrs, CT. This is a chance for attendees to go behind-the-scenes with the project team, to learn about the work being done, and to see the project before it’s finished. The event will start with a presentation led by our event host, NESEA Business Member Steven Winters Associates, Inc. and other members of the project...

NESEA Pro Tour of the World’s first Core Living Building Certified Project, May 17, 1pm - 5pm, Allentown, PA

On May 17, attendees of this Allentown, PA, event will have the opportunity to meet members of the project team as they lead the tour of this newly-constructed 21,000 sf building on the Muhlenberg College Campus. This project, which was also designed and built for PHIUS certification and is LEED Platinum certified, offers extensive learning opportunities. The event will start with a presentation from the design team, detailing the...

NESEA Pro-Tour: All-Electric, Affordable Passive House Development in Boston, Massachusetts, April 26, 1-5 pm

Join NESEA for the first Pro Tour of 2024, a new construction passive house project that will bring 50 units of affordable senior housing to the community of Roxbury, Massachusetts. On April 26, the team behind this five-story, passive house development will open the doors to the NESEA community for a behind-the-scenes look at this project. Attendees will learn about the building’s history, design and construction, and systems, ...

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...