Workshops
On Tuesday, March 10, full- and half-day workshops present an opportunity to develop an area of interest or set of skills that will advance your practice. All workshops are accredited by AIA, BOMI, AIAQC, NAHB, NARI and InterNACHI. Workshop registration is in addition to the main conference.
Workshops at a Glance
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Toward Zero Energy & Beyond: Wind and Solar-Powered Buildings |
Cancellations
We regret to inform you that the following half-day workshops have been cancelled:
If you have registered for one of these workshops but have not been contacted by NESEA, it is likely that your registration form did not include contact information. Please call us immediately at 413-774-6051 to discuss your options. |
Tuesday, March 10, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Presenter: Maria Karpman, Karpman Consulting Level: Introductory, Intermediate Room: Waterfront 1 Description: In addition to being an invaluable tool for energy efficient integrated design, energy modeling using the guidance put forth in Appendix G of ASHRAE's Standard 90.1 is an essential part of gaining LEED certification and the ENERGY STAR label for high rise multifamily buildings, and complying with the Enterprise Green Communities Criteria. In this unique workshop participants will learn Appendix G by creating an energy model using eQUEST from scratch. Laptop with eQUEST installed is required. eQUEST is free and can be downloaded from http://doe2.com/download/equest/eQUEST_v3-6_Setup.exe. |
Tuesday, March 10, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Presenter: Richard Komp, Maine Solar Energy Association Level: Introductory, Intermediate Room: Cambridge Complex Description: Learn how to assemble what Dr. Richard Komp calls the solar electric-thermal hybrid. By reflecting more of the sun’s energy onto solar cells within a collector, we cause them to produce more electricity, but the cells heat up. This is remedied by mounting “cooling fins” behind the cells to transfer the energy, heating water or air in the process. Thus, we get electricity and hot water or air out of the same collector. Dr. Komp invented the PV-Thermal Hybrid in 1975 and has built over 100 of these in the decades since then. We will also look at the physics and history of the various Hybrids installed around the world. |
Tuesday, March 10, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Presenter: Larry Harmon, Air Barrier Solutions, LLC Level: Introductory, Intermediate Room: Beacon Hill Description: Ignore the salespeople – this workshop continues to be the most popular at NESEA for the last four years, as one of the nation’s most experienced, and possibly most animated, presenters walks the audience through a nuts and bolts approach to making existing 1-4 family homes in cold climates more energy efficient. Join Larry Harmon in his no-nonsense approach to finding the waste in your home, without spending thousands of dollars, and reaping substantial increases in comfort, affordability, resource efficiency, health, safety, and durability. |
Tuesday, March 10, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Presenter: Peter Biondo, Oventrop Corporation
Room: Backbay Complex Description: Explore solar hot water heating technologies for commercial hot water and space heating systems. These large solar hot water systems will include the latest developments in staging thermal storage tanks and combination applications. Topics included are: commercial applications, flat plate and evacuated tube collectors, storage tanks, heat exchangers, closed loop and drain-back systems, sizing collector arrays, estimating costs and calculating payback. The Commercial Solar Hot Water Guidebook and The Solar Heating Calculator are included! |
Tuesday, March 10, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Presenters: Joe Lstiburek, Building Science Corporation, Bart Bales, Rise Engineering
Room: Waterfront 3 Description: This full day workshop will focus on intermediate building science for professionals and help design professionals better understand moisture issues in building construction with regard to maintenance of building integrity, energy performance and durability. Joe Lstiburek, a nationally known authority on building science, will lead this dynamic workshop. His well known Building Science Corporation is an invaluable repository of knowledge of building science. |
Tuesday, March 10, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM - Morning: Classroom; Afternoon: Field Presenters: Terry Brennan, Camroden Associates Inc, F.L. Andrew Padian, Energy Initiatives for The Community Preservation Corporation (CPC) Level: Intermediate Room: Harborside Description: A popular session at NESEA since 1999, join Terry and Andy as they approach a building for the first time and explain the thought processes and diagnostic tests they perform as part of an initial assessment of a building to make it more sustainable. This workshop is designed to show everyone from the amateur to the intermediate building professional how many technologies that are at the very core of building sustainability, are very simple, such as fuel analysis and changing of cleaning products and processes, and are at the very core of building sustainability. This class will begin in the classroom in the morning, and will convene in the field at a buildingsite in the afternoon. The participants will be encouraged to assist in the greening of the building in cooperation with the speakers and the building's owner/manager. |
Tuesday, March 10, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Presenter: Marc Rosenbaum, Energysmiths
Room: Waterfront 2 Description: Zero energy homes, LEED Platinum, yada, yada. What about the 120 million housing units in the US already built? Bringing these homes up to current best superinsulated practice is one option (another is freezing in the dark.) Join us in a jam session focused on deep energy retrofits of existing buildings. We'll look at where the energy goes in existing buildings and commiserate about the challenges of extreme energy makeovers. Unsubstantiated opinions and unjustified conclusions may be offered. Case studies will be presented. Attendees are encouraged to submit their own problems and solutions (please email the presenter ahead of time) so that we can puzzle and learn together in an interactive session. |
Tuesday, March 10, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Presenter: Steven Strong, Solar Design Associates
Room: Federal Complex Description: This highly visual presentation explores the design and integration of solar electricity (photovoltaics or PV), solar thermal, and wind energy systems in residential, commercial and institutional buildings. The best of built examples from Europe, Japan and the US will illustrate innovative design where solar electric elements displace conventional building materials to become an integral part of the architecture. Case studies of zero-energy buildings powered by solar and wind energy are featured. |
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Tuesday, March 10, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM Moderators: Anne Perkins, Rural Development Inc., Robb Aldrich, Steven Winter Associates Presenters: Ray McGowan, National Fenetration Rating Council, Christian Kohler, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Sean Flanigan, Paradigm Windows, Jim Larsen, Cardinal Glass, Stephen Thwaite, Thermotech Windows
Room: Cityview 2 Description: In high-performance homes in northern climates, windows should have U-values as low as possible, but substantial energy benefits are possible from southern windows with high solar heat gains. This is achievable with current glazing technologies, but such windows are typically only available from high-end, custom manufacturers. When more main-stream window manufacturers provide triple-pane or similar products, they are typically designed for low U-values and low Solar Heat Gain (which is very appropriate for southern climates). This meeting will bring together window industry stakeholders (builders, window manufacturers, glazing manufacturers, engineers, window researchers, ENERGY STAR representatives, etc.) to discuss builders' goals, current products, new technologies, and market challenges in hopes of achieving affordable high-performance windows for northern climates. |
Tuesday, March 10, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM Presenters: Scott Greenbaum, Greene Energy Consultants LLC, Rafael M. Negron, Norgen Consulting Group
Room: Harborview 2 Description: Learn the Fundamentals of Co-Generation and what it can do for your facility to reduce operating costs. Learn the basic vocabulary, processes, and equipment that are included in a co-generation system. Equipment includes driven trains (engines, micro-turbines, and gas turbines), heat recovery steam generators, absorption chillers, etc. Review the potential thermal loads (DHW, heating, pool heating, process, etc). We will review the results of successful and failed systems that have been installed. These are real numbers for installed projects. We will review a pre-screening spreadsheet that is essential to qualifying your projects. Bring your project and maybe we will run it through the pre-screening tool. |
Tuesday, March 10, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM Chair: Kim Lundgren, ICLEI Presenter: Angela Vincent, ICLEI, Melissa Stults, ICLEI
Room: Harborview 1 Description: During this interactive session, participants will have an opportunity to learn about and use exciting new climate planning tools designed to help communities with their climate protection efforts. ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability staff will highlight new and existing greenhouse gas emissions inventorying, climate action planning, and implementation tools, and then lead participants through a hands-on greenhouse gas inventory and action planning creation exercise. No prior inventorying experience is necessary.
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