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| Benefits and Strategies to Hire and Retain Veterans | The National Veterans Chamber serves both the individual Veteran and the organizations that support our Veterans and military families. Veterans and military families are able to access resources to find jobs, start a business, and obtain advice in current employment. Employers benefit by accessing resources to help them create a welcoming military-friendly workplace, free training programs and access tax benefits when hiring military Veterans.Learning Objectives:1. Learn about the programs and benefits of the Veterans Chamber2. Identify employees with supervisory potential to complete the First Time Manager Training.3. Understand the Veteran Friendly Employer Program, including assistance with onboarding veterans and setting up a peer-to-peer Veteran Mentorship Program4. Realize the tax benefits when hiring veterans – employers could receive up to $9600 per hireInstructors: Joseph Molina and Rene Carter |
Joseph Molina and Rene Carter |
| Beyond Net Zero – What’s Next? | This final webinar in the series pulls it all together, discussing where do we need to go from here? It introduces some new concepts, looks at disruptive technology challenges, as well as the broader view beyond NZ. We conclude with the question “Why build the 100-year home?”Learning Objectives:1. Learn to offset increased cost of Net Zero by considering advanced framing and waste reduction.2. Looking at panelization to overcome material and labor issues for house and building construction.3. Introducing the LifeARK™ concept: when the grid goes down.4. Evaluate the Developer relationship: friend or foe?5. Considering biodiversity enhancements.6. Illustrating a social contract: Tiny Hope – partnerships in affordable housing. Instructor: Doug Tarry |
Doug Tarry |
| Phius Prescription for Better Buildings | This webinar presents the new Phius 2021 core prescriptive path and prepares Passive House practitioners to certify their buildings with it. It covers the background context, the origin of the prescriptive checklist, and provides step-by-step instruction, along with some case study examples.Learning Objectives:1. Learn about the origins of the Phius 2021 prescriptive path.2. Understand how to use the prescriptive checklist.3. Identify the submission requirements and the process for certifying a building through the prescriptive path.4. Review case study examples that demonstrate the use of the prescriptive checklist.Approved for AIA 1 LU/HSW | John Loercher |
| Who holds the keys to a Healthier Home? What doors appear locked? Who are the key makers? | This session will cover the key elements to a healthier home. Is it the designer, builder, sub-contractors, H/AC contractors, Rater/Advisors Code officials, product manufacturers, and/or the occupants? No surprise here, it’s a combination. Let’s pick the locks and discuss the various roles each key holder has in creating common failures (unhealthy conditions) and current successes that open the doors to a healthier home.If a healthier home is as simple as turning a key, why are so few occupants asking for their home to be healthier? Maybe semantics with “comfort” or … we’ll discuss consumer indifferences.Finally, why are so few doors, opportunities, open and others require special keys to enter? You must attend the session to discover who the key makers are.The door is open, join us.Learning objectives:- List the top key holders to a healthier home. Two keys can make a significant impact!- Why the healthiest home can become a serious health risk by the occupants.- Name three of the most common health risks, exposures and pathways in a dwelling.- What should a Rater/Energy Advisor know to make a home healthier.Instructor:Joe Medosch | Joe Medosch |
| “Walk the Wok” in the Year of the Ox: An “Electric” Chinese New Year Cooking and Ventilation Celebration | Chef Rachelle Boucher of Kitchens to Life cooks her favorite Chinese New Year dishes as two of the top experts in Indoor Air Quality bring a fresh perspective to traditional cooking and the vital role of ventilation in today’s homes.Brady Seals, Senior Associate in Rocky Mountain Institute’s Building Electrification program, will share her insights on the health effects from gas stoves and how and why the topic of indoor air quality is so urgent right now. She will be joined by Alex Siow, director of Monark Premium Appliance in San Francisco and founder of Zephyr Ventilation, who will deep-dive into today’s ventilation technology and options. Both Brady and Alex have worked in countries all over the world, and this global insight is a perfect pairing for the induction cooking and ventilation demonstration that Rachelle will be doing in the Electric Kitchen Workshop featuring the Elica NikkolaTesla Switch induction and ventilation cooktop and the Elica Haiku hood.Instructors:Rachelle Boucher, Brady Seals, Alex Siow |
Rachelle Boucher, Brady Seals, Alex Siow |
| 140% AFUE is Coming – Introducing Thermal Heat Pumps | As policymakers, builders, utilities, and end users seek to reduce the greenhouse gas impact of our homes, it is critical to address the low installed efficiency of traditional equipment serving what is often the most significant load, space heating and domestic hot water. New Thermally-driven Heat Pumps (THPs) have been developed as a packaged solution to provide both space heating and domestic hot water, achieving an equivalent of 140% AFUE in both lab and field environments and represent a new product category for residential space heat, being built by multiple manufacturers. This session will provide an overview of the technology, and share energy performance, operating cost, CO2e emissions basis and comfort results from multiple lab and field demonstrations, including sharing the perspective of installing contractors.Instructors : Jason LaFleurCEU’s : 1 AIA, 1 BPI, 1 NAHB, 1 NARI, 1 RESNET, and 1 GENERAL**A maximum of 6 NAHB credits can be earned for entire Summit |
Jason LaFleur |
| 2021 State of EEBA | EEBA President and CEO Aaron Smith, EEBA Board President Dennis Web (VP, Fulton Homes), and EEBA Past President Bill Rectanus (COO Thrive Home Builders) discuss EEBA’s recent accomplishments and future plans. The conversation occurred on Oct. 1, 2021, at the EEBA Summit which took place in Denver Colorado. | Aaron Smith |
| 3 Pillars of Boosting Sales with Indoor airPLUS™️ | The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) created the Indoor airPLUS™️ (IAP) program to help home builders meet the growing consumer demand for healthier homes with improved indoor air quality. This Field Fusion will dive into the value of the program and identify practical steps toward implementation so that you and your homeowners can experience the benefits – right away! Find out how you can be the builder who sets the standard for healthy homes and exceeds consumer expectations by adding the Indoor airPLUS label to your product line.Learning Objectives:
Instructor:Rusty Buick |
Rusty Buick |
| A Conversation About Building Zero Energy Homes | In this podcast style live conversation, Join Justin Wilson and Gord Cooke (Construction Instruction), Robby Schwarz (BUILDTank), Bill Rectanus (Thrive Home Builders), and Seth Hart as we discuss the current state of Zero Energy Homes. Skip the PowerPoint and enjoy this conversation where we wrestle with how to make zero energy homes mainstream homes.
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Justin Wilson, Gord Cooke, Robby Schwarz, Bill Rectanus, and Seth Hart |
| A Cost-Effective Path to Healthy, Affordable, Net Zero Housing with DOE’s ZER Program | Certified high performance, high indoor air quality, and net zero energy may sound like an expensive wish list for affordable housing, especially in locations that already have high land prices but a select group of affordable home builders has found a way to make clean, healthy, and net zero attainable by sticking to the criteria of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Zero Energy Ready Home program. In this presentation, we’ll show how affordable home builders like United Way of Long Island, along with production, custom, and multifamily builders across the country, are building healthy, durable, energy-efficient homes that are achieving remarkably high performance and low Home Energy Rating System scores – with a program average of HERS 43 without PV and HERS 6 with PV. We’ll give an overview of the choices builders across the program are making in terms of key energy-efficiency measures like wall assemblies, insulation types, HVAC equipment, water heating, etc. We’ll share some of their best design secrets for cutting costs without sacrificing performance. We’ll dive deep into the details with case studies of several of United Way of Long Island’s award-winning projects. And we’ll lay out a roadmap based on the DOE Zero Energy Ready Home program so you can achieve high performance home designs too. | Terrence Mosley, Rick Wertheim, & Theresa Gilbride |
| A Globalized Approach to Sustainability in the Built Environment | During this 60-minute presentation, Joseph Daniels will present a fresh approach to sustainable buildings with a harmonized approach for application across the globe. Blending sustainability certifications, green finance, and a universe of digital twins, Daniels is standardizing an approach to developing and delivering high-performance homes. This new approach, developed and piloted by his company, Etopia, offers a new framework for ESG investment in green housing across the globe. Daniels will present contexts, constraints, and findings from his work in the UK and Europe and how these new models may be adapted and applied in the U.S.
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Joseph Daniels |
| A Whole New World – ENERGY STAR + HVAC Grading | Ever since the launch of Version 3 in 2010, the HVAC design and commissioning requirements have been the biggest hurdle between a standard HERS rating and an ENERGY STAR certified home. Taking all the lessons learned, EPA, RESNET, and ACCA have recently completed a new HVAC grading standard that will integrate many of these requirements into the HERS rating process. Now is the time to learn how this major advance will once again put ENERGY STAR within reach of anyone doing a HERS rating.Learning Objectives:
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Dean Gamble |
| A Window Inside the Mind of the High Performance Home Buyer | Last year EEBA launched the EEBA Builder Benchmark Group, a peer group of high performance home builders who meet regularly, share successes, lean into each other for support and gain ideas about how to run their businesses better. One element of that program is a consumer insights platform called WNDO, which was specifically designed to gain actionable insights into the high performance homebuyers’ journey in order to help them improve their products, homebuyers’ experiences and bottom lines. WNDO surveys actual high performance home customers 5 times throughout their build journey: at the time of the sale, at the drywall or framing walk-through, during an orientation or site tour, 30 days after closing, and 6 months after move-in. The goal is to understand high-performance homebuyers, why they buy, which features and benefits of their high-performance homes they value the most, and how they’re feeling as they go through the build process.This session reveals the key insights from WNDO’s first year. Who are these buyers? What did they think the most important features and benefits of a high performance home were on the front end (and how big of a factor was that in their decision to buy), and are those the actual features and benefits that matter after they live in the home? This session will also connect the dots from the key insights to how high performance builders and manufacturers can target their marketing better and refine their messaging to really speak to the right consumer in the right way.
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Suzanne Shelton |
| Adding Automated Shading to the High Performance Toolkit: HVAC, Health & Wellness, and High Tech | Most builders think of window attachments like shades and blinds as nothing more than decorative features that the homeowner will add when they move in. Think again. New research from the U.S. Department of Energy shows that insulated shades can cut heating and cooling costs by as much as 10% to 25%, respectively, especially if they are raised and lowered at the right times of the day and season. In addition to lowering utility bills, window attachments can also cut glare, improve indoor comfort, and occupant well-being. Builders can help homeowners take full advantage of these benefits by installing high-performance window attachments and pre-wiring the home with the electrical wiring needed to automate them. Builders benefit from the opportunity to upsell a valuable option with the potential to reduce homeowner comfort callback complaints. Presenters from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the Attachments Energy Rating Council (AERC) will share findings from field and lab studies confirming the energy savings of automated shading systems. Attendees will also learn about occupant health benefits of window attachments related to light, sleep, acoustics and indoor air quality; and opportunities to integrate automated shades with other connected devices in the home to maximize energy performance. Finally, attendees will learn about a new labeling system to verify window blinds, shades, and other attachments from the AERC, a public interest organization that provides consumers and industry professionals with accurate information on the energy performance of window attachments.Learning Objectives:
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Katie Cort, Shannon Christie |
| Adjusting for New ABNORMALS: Adapting to More Extreme Heat and Power Outages | The risks of overheated buildings, power outages, higher cooling costs are already increasing in many regions and are expected to increase drastically in the coming decades. Indoor overheating standards and demonstration projects have been developed in Europe and Canada, but little progress has been made in the U.S. Cooling systems using renewable energy can increase cooling capacity, but they also produce waste heat and embedded carbon emissions and increase our reliance on the power grid. The study goal was to demonstrate cost effective passive design strategies for a safe, comfortable, and affordable living environment. The study’s objective was to model an affordable, ZNE single family home in dry mixed climate site in Bakersfield, California under current and future climate conditions and power outage conditions. To estimate mid-century and end-century climate, we used Cal-Adapt’s local climate predictions for Bakersfield and weather files from the “future climate analog” cities of Yuma and Phoenix, Arizona, respectively. Urban heat island effects were not estimated. BeOpt modeling was used to optimize passive design features under current and future climate conditions. CBEC modeling results showed a net annual site energy increase for future climates of 55% by mid-century – consisting of an 84% heating load decrease but a 147% increase in cooling load (up to 84% per month). Without air conditioning in the analogous Phoenix climate, indoor temperature reached a maximum of 111 F. Peak energy use and overheating risk during an historical heat wave in Bakersfield (with and without power) were also assessed. Results confirmed that designing for low energy use alone will not necessary prevent overheating under current and future climates. Current progress and future research and policy needs will also be discussed.
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Tom Phillips and Emily Higbee |
| Advanced Wall Options for Low Load Homes | Building professionals are continually looking to improve the air tightness, insulation value and durability of their wall systems. Even when done well, traditional air sealing and standard wall systems are proven to result in significant air leakage and areas to increase thermal performance. With the advancement of codes and market trajectory towards zero energy construction, many are unsure what the best approaches and opportunities are to make a jump in performance. Join Dan and Josh for a lively session covering both common and emerging strategies and assemblies to dramatically lower the loads of buildings looking to achieve certifications or approaching Net Zero energy or carbon goals.
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Dan Wildenhaus and Josh Salinger |
| Air Sealing – The Foundation of High Performance Homes |
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Paul Springer |
| Airtight, Done Right: Simple and Efficient Strategies | Since the 1990s residential buildings have shown dramatic and consistent improvement in their energy efficiency: Average energy use per square foot is down substantially, and so are average energy use per household and average energy use per household member. Remarkably, these improvements have occurred even while the average home has grown larger and the average number of occupants has declined. How do we account for this extraordinary progress, and what can architects do to continue to improve energy efficiency in residential architecture? More importantly, can they do so in a way that also intelligently manages risk, particularly the risk of water-related failures like rot, corrosion, mold, and odors? This session will present the small design adjustments — using standard materials already included in the project — that architects can make immediately, at low (or no) additional cost, to disproportionately improve air-tightness and energy efficiency in residential architecture. We will also cover what these adjustments actually look like in the field, and equip participants to respond to the most common objections to theses design changes during CA (construction administration), especially those related to constructability and cost.Learning Objectives :
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Christine Williamson |
| All Electric & Fossil Fuel Free: The Ultimate Z.E.N. Home | As climate change drives code advancement, learn how the Ultimate Z.E.N. Home eliminates the use of fossil fuels in a production-built home. Learn about the Gateway to Zero from Team Zero members Jack Armstrong and Sam Rashkin. This webinar will be hosted by Editor-in-Chief of ProBuilder, Rich Binsacca, and also include Bill Rectanus of Thrive Home Builders and Karla Butterfield of Steven Winter Associates. | Rich Binsacca, Jack Armstrong, Sam Rashkin, Karla Butterfield, & Bill Rectanus |
| Annie Bevan Presents at December BBG Meeting | At the December EEBA Builder Benchmark Group Meeting, Annie Bevan, CEO & Founder of SMS Collaborative discusses SMSC’s partnership with EEBA and plan to create a model template on Sustainability Reporting for the EEBA Builder Community.Learn more about the EEBA Builder Benchmark Group here: https://www.eeba.org/bbgs | Annie Bevan |
| Approaches for Effective Isolation Space Control to Minimize Airborne Transmission of Contaminants in Residential Homes | If a person sharing a home with others is infected with a virus, how can I prevent it from spreading to other members of the household? Existing evidence strongly suggests that viral infectious diseases can be transmitted via an airborne route across distances in indoor environments. Accordingly, sharing indoor space in the presence of infected individuals poses a major risk in the transmission of the disease. This webinar will present several low-cost, easy-to-implement control strategies to potentially mitigate the airborne transmission of infectious aerosols in a single-family house.Learning objectives:
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Dr. Tanvir Khan |
| Architectural Details of the Control Layers | This is where the building science rubber meets the architect’s road. Steve uses his many high-performance projects to show how high performance is translated into actual assemblies, with real materials, and with tried-and-true project management done cooperatively with the architect and builder. Steve will have you walking away with Easy-to-Understand solutions he uses every day, that meet the new code while providing the means to a comfortable, durable, energy-efficient, valued building enclosure.Learning Objectives:
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Steve Baczek |
| ASES: Equitably Transforming to a 100% Renewable Energy Society | Established in 1954, the American Solar Energy Society (ASES) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that advocates for sustainable living and 100% renewable energy. We share information, events and resources to cultivate community and power progress in the U.S. and beyond. As the U.S. section of the International Solar Energy Society (ISES), we work with individuals and groups around the world to accelerate the equitable transition to a renewable energy and sustainable living society.We believe knowledge and community are a powerful combination for change. Through trusted, well-researched content and comprehensive, thoughtful perspectives, we continue to nurture a transition to a more sustainable world. Through signature publications such as Solar Today magazine, the ASES Online Community network and annual events like the National Solar Tour and National Solar Conference , we engage individuals, businesses and partnering groups to advance the possibilities of sustainability and renewable energy in the U.S.In this webinar we will dive deeper into ASES’s programs to learn how you can effect change by participating in our many opportunities. This includes attending the ASES SOLAR 2022 National Solar Conference, participating in the National Solar Tour, volunteer opportunities, and engaging with industry professionals in our ASES Online Community and Webinar Series. |
Carly Cipolla |
| Best Practices to Achieve Radon Resistant New Homes | This webinar will review the key concerns and options for building new homes to achieve the lowest possible radon concentrations, including current codes and standards.Learning Objectives:
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Brian Hanson & Bruce Snead |
| Better Energy Efficiency from the Ground Up | Although below-grade waterproofing and insulation are out of sight, they are integral to a building’s thermal performance. Build better energy efficient homes from the ground up. Even though the parts of buildings that are below grade are less susceptible to the impact of extreme outdoor temperatures, when you have cold dirt, you have a cold basement. Unless the basement is insulated, this year-round cold dirt is slowly costing homeowners more money as their home will consume more energy to keep it warm. Additionally, water is the enemy of insulation. Damp insulation is less effective at blocking the flow of heat than is dry insulation, and can degrade the material over time. So, it is especially important in below-grade applications to consider the management of unwanted moisture. While there are countless steps you can take to make homes more energy efficient, starting from the ground up is the best approach.Instructor :Mark LaLiberte |
Mark LaLiberte |
| Beyond the Zero Brick Road – A Carbon Free Future | States and local governments are laying a road map for climate leadership and paving the way to a carbon-free future. Designing and constructing within this framework requires ingenuity, courage, and heart. This session will examine some of the existing and proposed mandates for carbon reduction in our built environment and expose who’s behind the initiatives (pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!). We will also present workable solutions for reducing carbon in buildings. With sophisticated modeling tools, advanced technologies and new products, building professionals are uniquely poised to create a land where buildings are healthier, safer and carbon-free.
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Karla Butterfield |
| Builder-Provided Extended Warranties and Service Plans: Business Opportunity or Bad Idea? | Few U.S. homebuilders offer builder-backed extended warranties beyond one year of coverage. Several builders within EEBA’s Builder Benchmark Groups have been brainstorming the business opportunities that such builder-backed warranties, coupled with service plans, likely provide – including referrals, higher customer satisfaction, and the opportunity to ensure that new homes continue to operate and perform as designed after years of service. Join Todd Usher from Addison Homes in an interactive discussion on the pros and cons of builder-backed extended warranties along with some preliminary Clemson University consumer research focused on the subject. | Todd Usher |
| Building Better Promotions with the Right Tools and Elevating Your Facebook Strategy | Are you tired of investing money in promotions that just don’t seem to do the trick? Have you dabbled with Facebook, but just can’t quite elevate your page to match your goals? Do promotions tend to get moved to the bottom of the pile, because you don’t have the time? Invest an hour in this session to hear how to select the best promotional tools for your company. The list of promotional tools available to businesses is complex. Each of the tools has benefits and can provide great value if used for the right reason. We will review the strengths and weaknesses of the primary promotional tools along with best practices. This will allow participants to select the tools that best fit their business goals while making choices that are more effective and productive. Also, in this session, we will identify and demonstrate the key components of the Facebook platform that can make your time and effort more worthwhile. This includes developing a content calendar and ideas for creating engaging content that will connect with the audience. There will be a review of important settings including a look at how to boost or advertise on your company page.Instructor :Connie ReinertCEU’s : 1 AIA, 1 BPI, 1 NAHB, 1 NARI, 1 RESNET, and 1 GENERAL**A maximum of 6 NAHB credits can be earned for entire Summit |
Connie Reinert |
| Building for Resilience: A New Disaster-Resistance Construction Tool in the Building America Solution Center | Wildfires, hurricanes, earthquakes, termites & beyond; today’s builders have more to worry about than code inspectors, labor shortages, and lumber prices. Once a home is built, will it stand up to the elements? The U.S. Department of Energy is pulling together an impressive suite of construction guidance to help the building industry construct homes that are more disaster-resistant and resilient. They are calling on some of the best building scientists and drawing from the expertise of numerous disaster resistance agencies together with their wealth of construction knowledge. This is a user-friendly resource for builders, contractors, designers, raters, code officials, and homeowners. This new disaster-resistance tool is the most recent addition to DOE’s popular Building America Solution Center. Now averaging over 60,000 hits a month (That’s 2,000 visits per day!), the Solution Center is an interactive online resource giving users a how-to guide for making homes more energy-efficient, durable, comfortable, healthy, and now also disaster-resistant. The tool includes guidance on making homes more resistant to wildfires, floods, hurricanes, high winds, tornadoes, earthquakes, low temperatures, and pests. Additionally, guidance for shelter in place and grid-enabled buildings are planned to be added. The Solution Center offers easy-to-search libraries of photos, drawings, videos, CAD files, case studies, code notes, and references helpful for training crews and tracking down answers. This presentation will show you how to make the most of this new tool to make your next projects both energy efficient and disaster-resistant.
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Chrissi Antonopoulos and Theresa Gilbride |
| Building Science Foundation: Keeping Our Homes Safe and Sound | The building science principles forming the foundation for high performance are how heat moves, how moisture moves, and how the two always work together. The three forms of heat transfer—radiation, conduction, and convection—and the four modes of moisture movement—bulk water, capillary water, air-transported moisture, and vapor diffusion—are covered by practical expressions in buildings. The management of heat and moisture (hygrothermal) is accomplished by continuous control layers—water, air, and thermal—and then inevitable wetting is managed with a vapor profile—dedicated and directional drying by diffusion. This educational module sets the stage for how high performance can be accomplished in the context of model energy code compliance. It also sets the stage for how a high-performance enclosure demands high-performance HVAC, particularly connecting ACCA Manual J (load calculations) with ACCA Manuals S (system sizing) and D (duct distribution and sizing).Learning Objectives :
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Peter Yost |
| Building Smart & Sustainable Homes in the New Energy Landscape | Residential energy is changing quickly with new mandates, greater demand for electricity and an aging infrastructure. Home builders today are meeting these challenges in new ways to build homes of the future today. With new strategies and solutions, home builders are building not just smart homes, but homes with smart, sustainable, resilient energy.Learning Objectives:1. Learn about the macro forces influencing the new energy landscape.2. Hear how homebuilders are leveraging this opportunity to differentiate themselves in the market.3. Understand some of the solutions to simplify building smart, sustainable and resilient homes in 2022.Instructor: Brad Wills |
Brad Wills |
| Building the Future of Energy Efficient Buildings Through Workforce Development | How do we ensure healthy, energy efficient buildings are part of the future built environment? How can we ensure we have enough qualified workers to make efficiency upgrades possible at scale in our current buildings? By training a workforce that is empowered and passionate about designing, constructing, and operating high-performance buildings and installing energy efficient building technologies. Attend this session to learn about the current state of the efficiency workforce, steps leading organizations have taken to attract and retain younger workers, and how you can join forces with U.S. Department of Energy through programs such as the Solar Decathlon and Better Buildings Workforce Accelerator. | Sarah Truitt, Madeline Salzman, Zachary Peterson, & Clint Shireman |
| Carbon Neutral Operations and Maintenance, the Changing Federal Reporting Requirements | Join us for a Case Study of a Multifamily Energy Star Building and learn about the Carbon Neutral Operations and Maintenance Certification Process before the New Federal Requirements were enacted.Learning Objectives:
Instructors:Peter Skornia and George Sullivan |
Peter Skornia and George Sullivan |
| Casas Que Funcionan: Examen (SPANISH) |
Este es el componente de examen del “Casas Que Funcionan: Módulos”.
Este curso describe la física de la ciencia de la construcción del flujo de aire, calor y humedad que todo constructor debe conocer para comprender por qué algunos edificios funcionan y otros no. El curso abordará los elementos críticos del rendimiento del hogar que existen como un sistema y son parte de los hogares energéticamente eficientes. Se describirán y aplicarán los fundamentos de la ciencia de la construcción para ayudar a los participantes a tomar mejores decisiones con respecto a los materiales y métodos de construcción. Los participantes también aprenderán información importante sobre la calidad del aire interior, incluidos los conceptos básicos del moho y otras fuentes contaminantes, y estrategias rentables para poder ofrecer entornos interiores más saludables.
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Gord Cooke |
| Casas Que Funcionan: Módulos (SPANISH) |
Este curso describe la física de la ciencia de la construcción del flujo de aire, calor y humedad que todo constructor debe conocer para comprender por qué algunos edificios funcionan y otros no. El curso abordará los elementos críticos del rendimiento del hogar que existen como un sistema y son parte de los hogares energéticamente eficientes. Se describirán y aplicarán los fundamentos de la ciencia de la construcción para ayudar a los participantes a tomar mejores decisiones con respecto a los materiales y métodos de construcción. Los participantes también aprenderán información importante sobre la calidad del aire interior, incluidos los conceptos básicos del moho y otras fuentes contaminantes, y estrategias rentables para poder ofrecer entornos interiores más saludables.
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Gord Cooke |
| Certified SIP Master Builder Course | This course is provided in partnership with the Structural Insulated Panel Association (SIPA).SIPA offers a $50 membership discount to builders who complete a 10-hour online SIPs course, the first step in joining a prestigious group of builders who are changing the landscape for high performance, advanced building envelope construction.By completing the BEST course work you are considered a ” Builder in Training ” and can join SIPA as a member with $50 off the first year membership fee (pay only $85). The next step is to register and enroll in theSIPA Registered Builder Programto achieve “ Registered Builder ” status and then on to the “SIPA Master Builder” certification. Go to theSIPA Registered Builder Programpage to see details.Instructor : Al CobbCEUs : 8 AIA LU/HSW |
Al Cobb |
| Changing Our Paradigm: 4 Principles of Modern Design | Doug Tarry is President of Doug Tarry Ltd., an award winning, leading home building company in southwestern Ontario, Canada. Having built and labeled more Net Zero / Net Zero Ready homes than any other builder in Canada, Doug is currently developing a book called “From Bleeding Edge to Leading Edge: A Builders’ Guide to Net Zero Homes.”This webinar will provide an overview Doug’s book and delves into what he believes are the 4 principles of modern design.Learning Objectives:1. Demystifying Net Zero and making it accessible.2. Understanding value vs. simple cost.3. Recognize how to build your team carefully and early on.4. Learn how to plan your specs, including occupant comfort, indoor air quality, carbon reduction, and climate resilient building.Instructor: Doug TarryCEUs: 1 LU AIA credit |
Doug Tarry |
| Checking Your Work: Properly Installed HVAC in High-Performance Homes | Many AC’s and heat pumps are installed with faults that impact both their performance and efficiency. Come to this session to learn about a new RESNET/ACCA/ANSI standard with three simple field tests that can help a builder ensure they’re getting what they’ve paid for. Not only can this make for happier homeowners, fewer service calls, and lower utility bills, it can also unlock new points for homes with a HERS/ERI rating.Learning Objectives:
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Dean Gamble & Greg Cobb |
| Closing Plenary: Changing Our Paradigm – Four Principles Of Modern Design and Other Musings | Gene Myers from Thrive Home Builders and Doug Tarry from Doug Tarry Homes wrap up this year’s EEBA Hybrid Summit with this Closing Plenary: Changing Our Paradigm – Four Principles Of Modern Design and Other Musings. | Doug Tarry, Gene Myers |
| Cold Climate Air Source Heat Pump Strategies | You’ve heard about cold climate air source heat pumps (ccASHP). Maybe you’ve seen a few installed. Let’s look at some pros and cons of using this technology in challenging climate conditions. From a new construction perspective, we will discuss strategies for system design, installation, and operation. Bring your questions, comments, and experiences to this panel discussion. We are looking forward to helping advance the modern home building industry toward strategic electrification. | Shawn LeMons |
| Cold-Climate ASHPs – Real World Performance Data and Case Studies | Over 40% of Midwest homes use delivered fuels or electricity as their primary heat source. Research continues to show that cold-climate air source heat pumps are ideal for these homes. Their capacity has improved over the last decade and they are capable of meeting a greater portion of the heating load. This presentation first discusses the ASHP research, including performance and capacity results, lessons learned, and experiences from over five years of detailed data monitoring from ASHP field installs. Based on the research, the presentation will also discuss quality installation, design optimization, and how to best integrate ASHPs into Midwestern homes. Finally, the presentation will highlight a few real-world installation examples in new construction. It will discuss the issues and benefits of ASHP system installs, an overview of mechanical systems and available performance metrics, and a discussion of ducted versus ductless use cases. It will also cover design and sizing considerations, key quality installation best practices, the ability to heat/cool different zones, plus overcoming market and technical barriers, first costs, and other considerations.Learning Objectives :
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Isaac Smith & Phil Anderson |
| Complete Radon Mitigation | Building codes are steadily increasing the requirements for building envelope airtightness, along with mechanical ventilation. One aspect that is critical in tighter building construction is the need for maintaining a healthy indoor air environment. Outdoor pollutants entering the building include not only allergens and various chemical compounds, but also radon gas. According to the American Lung Association radon accounts for more than 21,000 deaths a year in the US. Radon has been typically abated by the use of polyethylene and air sealing under slabs and on the foundation. Radon enters the building through cracks in the foundation, and by diffusion directly through the slab and the foundation. Canadian research has developed a system using spray foam to control radon entry with both air and radon diffusion barriers. This presentation will outline the advances in radon control.Learning Objectives:1. Understand radon gas and the risk that is presents to the occupants.2. Identify regions where radon is prevalent and the radon concentration level requiring mitigation.3. Identify the various pathways that radon enters the building.4. Understand the components of a complete radon solution.Instructor: Randy Nicklas |
Randy Nicklas |
| Compliance Path Overview, Code Structure, Compliance Process | This webinar will explore how the International Energy Conservation Code is structured, as well as the process for complying with the energy code and what details to put on building plans. Attendees will also gain insight into the various compliance paths, with a specific focus on how the code has changed in the 2021 version.Learning Objectives:– Summarize Minimum Code Requirements- Describe the energy code compliance path options and required information/documentation for typical permit applications, compliance information on construction documents, and completion documents/certifications- Recognize a variety of energy code compliance options related to common decision points in constructionInstructor: Joe Nebbia |
Joe Nebbia |
| Coronavirus & Systemic Changes in the Housing Industry | There are many unknowns swirling around the Coronavirus right now, but one thing is certain: there will be long-term system changes in the housing sector that will place new demands on building professionals and manufacturers alike. In this webinar, Green Builder Media CEO will explore shifting consumer behaviors, purchasing patterns and sentiment; key areas where consumer expectations may be changed for good; and trends in essential areas like connect living, health and wellness, and energy.Instructor: Sara Gutterman |
Sara Gutterman |
| Cost Optimized Compliance with the 2021 IECC | The 2021 IECC brought about major changes that are championed by sustainability advocates and bemoaned by builders, now is the time to prepare. Using a home design typical to the Denver market, EnergyLogic has analyzed possible pathways to comply with the changes in the code and provide builders with cost effective solutions. The flexibility of the IECC allows for multiply pathways for builders to meet the code, but these pathways often lead to confusion rather than opportunities. Using a clear method, EnergyLogic’s analysis allows for builders to work with their raters to make informed decisions and avoid shots in the dark. This session will focus on how to prepare for the adoption of the 2021 IECC, how builders can make informed decisions, and how this will impact home buyers.
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Nathan Kahre |
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| COVID-Safe Ventilation and Airflow Strategies for Homes and Other Buildings | In October, the CDC acknowledged that the SARS-CoV-2 virus can be spread by airborne transmission of lightweight aerosol particles that can remain suspended in the air over long distances (usually greater than 6 feet) and time (typically hours). In this online meeting, Bill Warren will discuss how we can use building science principles (including ventilation, airflow, air circulation, pressure balances and filtration) to reduce our exposure risk to COVID aerosols inside homes and other building types. | Bill Warren |
| Creating an Airtight Shaft Liner Area Separation Wall | The IECC requires that town homes and duplexes achieve 3 or 5 ACH50 depending on the climate zone, and programs often even tighter. My experience is that attached housing is 2-3 time leakier than detached even though detached is generally twice as large. In the past creating airtight attached dwellings has been quite difficult and costly do to the 1″ gap between the area separation and structural components of the assembly. Two recently completed UL and ICC/NAT tests are changing how we should think about construction and air sealing this assembly. This session will explore what fire separation means and how air leakage could now be addressed.
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Robby Schwarz |
| Customers for Life—Extended Warranties and Maintenance Contracts | “Homebuilders can’t wait to get rid of their customers.” Is that true of your company? Companies in most other industries strive to maintain long term relationships with their customers in order to build their brands, obtain referrals and repeat business. How can homebuilders tap into this “Customer for Life” approach?
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Joe Hemmelgarn, Todd Usher, Gene Myers |
| Defining and Assessing Resilience | With the increasing threat to communities from storms, floods, wildfire, and extreme temperatures, there continues to be a growing focus on the resilience of the built environment. The National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC) (2009) described resilience:”Infrastructure resilience is the ability to reduce the magnitude and/or duration of disruptive events. The effectiveness of a resilient infrastructure or enterprise depends upon its ability to anticipate, absorb, adapt to, and/or rapidly recover from a potentially disruptive event.”Resilience, however, can be defined from many viewpoints and expressed in many ways. Government entities, industry organizations, and standards development organizations are developing criteria with which to assess and improve resilience. These criteria range in scope from the individual building to the community level. This presentation focuses on the of concept of resilience from a range of vantage points, and the industry activities currently underway to assess and improve the resilience of the built environment. An overview of resilience programs and how buildings are playing a part in them will be provided. The presentation will also include a review of the progress of industry-standard practice and guideline development for resilience.Learning Objectives :
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Theresa Weston |
| Deltec Homes Presents at EEBA BBG Meeting | Steve Linton and Leigha Dickens from Deltec Homes shared their journey and key learnings on becoming a Certified B Corporation with the EEBA Builder Benchmark Group.Learn more about the EEBA Builder Benchmark Group here: https://www.eeba.org/bbgs | Deltec Homes |
| Designing a Hurricane Resilient Home: The Systematic Approach | Multiple trends are making the design and off-site construction of resilient homes more important than ever. We have increasingly strong and frequent storms that are impacting communities across a greater area. We also have more people moving into those areas that are impacted by these storms. These people want to enjoy their environment while being protected from it.How do you balance those conflicting issues? By building hurricane-resistant homes that connect people to nature.This presentation will look at the core principles that make a home hurricane resistant. Importantly, it will explore how using a systematic approach is necessary to ensure the best hurricane protection for homes. From the building design, to specialized hurricane-specific components, to sustainability strategies that allow a home to operate immediately after a disaster; having the different elements of the home work together as a system is critical. We will highlight a few key case studies of homes that have withstood some of the strongest and most catastrophic storms in history.These same trends lead us to explore why resiliency should be central to the sustainability movement.
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Steve Linton |
| Designing for Dignity: Ownership, Empowerment, and Transformation with Sustainable Buildings | In this session, the NAACP brings you an overview of the Centering Equity in the Sustainable Building Sector (CESBS) Initiative and the stories of two members at the intersection of energy, equity, and housing. Lonnie Feemster, President of the Reno-Sparks Branch of the NAACP and former energy inspector, is known around town as “Solar Man.” With immense care, he built his own passive house that provides a 100% electric, low-consumption, and comfortable place for work and play for three generations. Daphany Rose Sanchez, founder of Kinetic Communities Consulting (KC3) and proud New York native, leverages partnerships and resources to help close the gap between the affordable housing and energy efficiency industry for diverse New York communities. Lonnie and Daphany share a passion for supporting Black and brown communities to understand the human cost of energy, save money, feel safe, and live in a cleaner environment. They will share a call to action through stories and lessons for building professionals to design projects, policies, and programs first and foremost for people and for justice. | Lonnie Feemster & Daphany Sanchez |
| Designing for Health in the Home – The Importance of Indoor Air Quality | As societal forces shift, new buying behaviors emerge and consumers are becoming more education about the place they call home, builders must also shift the way homes and communities are designed and built. High Performance Homes, in particular, are in demand, but must be designed differently to perform at levels which meet or exceed homeowner expectations. The talks with explore current and future healthy home trends with a focus on indoor air quality, whole house filtration and the importance of third-party certification. IAQ is a key component in the healthy home and builders will benefit by a deeper understanding of how whole house filtration and other asthma and allergy friendly products can help keep them and their business healthy.Instructor: Josh McKeon |
John McKeon |
| DOE Zero Energy Ready Homes and the Year Ahead | “Zero Energy Ready Homes” have grown from a niche product unfamiliar to many, to a standard offering in the marketplace found in codes, stretch codes, and many utility and affordable housing programs. But we’re still in the early stages of the journey to zero. The DOE Zero Energy Ready Homes program is moving to Version 2 in 2022, which will incorporate more proven innovations and establish ZERH as the jumping off point for net zero performance. At the same time, Zero Energy Ready Homes have reached a new high with major commitments from large production builders, affordable housing developers, and military housing projects. Finally, the program is launching the ZERH-Multifamily spec in 2022 to serve as the next step for Energy Star Multifamily New Construction builders. During this session we invite you to learn more about these exciting program advancements and share your input and questions.
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Eric Werling and Jaime Van Mourik |
| Dry Basements: A Builder’s Success Story | Building Science Deconstructed is a learning series hosted by Dörken Systems Inc. featuring some of the industry’s most sought-after building science experts. | Gord Cooke |
| Dun Today: Enabling the Home as a Service Business Model | Join us to hear from Dun Today Founder Ty Udell as he discusses Home-as-a-Service and the Market Transitions on the horizon for Custom and Hi-Volume builders alike. Ty will dive into the “app based consumer,” next generation client engagements, and new revenue streams enabled by the transition to Home-as-a-Service.Instructor: Ty Udell |
Ty Udell |
| Electric Buildings – A Path to Healthier People + Planet | The planet is in trouble and its human occupants don’t fare much better as rates of cancer, asthma, infertility and obesity increase. Most states have aggressive goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and slow climate change while medical and building professionals continue to make the health connection between buildings and people. The electric grid becomes exponentially cleaner as we employ zero emission technologies paired with renewables like wind and solar. All electric buildings can be much simpler to operate and maintain while improving human health. They are often cleaner, safer and more comfortable. Consideration for systems, materials and finishes with low embodied, as well as operational carbon is critical. From mid-rise, multifamily to zero-energy single-family, the examples in this presentation demonstrate simple, efficient, practical applications with lessons learned and the anticipation of a zero emissions future.Learning Objectives
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Karla Butterfield |
| Electrification and Carbon in the Real World? | In response to climate change and a call to reduce carbon emissions, the push for transitioning new homes to all-electric is on. Over 50% of Americans say that climate change is a critical threat and now is the time to educate buyers on solutions to reduce carbon emissions through electrification. Various stakeholders debate the cost and benefits of this substantive change, but it is consumer engagement that will lead to broader acceptance and implementation. Understanding the reality of electrification, the basics of carbon accounting, and opportunities to discuss this with clients will help builders stay ahead of mandates and continue to build. This presentation will explore how electrification and the real-world way builders are meeting this transition impact the code/energy program compliance and performance of homes.
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Nathan Kahre and Rusty Buick |
| Energy Code – Module 2: Window and Insulation Tables (Climate Zones 1 and 2) | This class will discuss code requirements found in the prescriptive window and insulation requirements and how these requirements have changed through various code editions (2009-2021). The audience will learn how to interpret the tables, understand different insulation types that comply and explore innovative examples. The class will discuss how the code tables are intended to control conductive heat flow, and will explain how the code treats concepts like “effective R-value” and U-value. The class will also discuss flexibility allowed through different compliance options within the prescriptive compliance path. This module will cover IECC Climate Zones 1 and 2 while other modules will cover other climate zones.Learning Objectives:
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Joe Nebbia |
| Energy Code – Module 3: Window and Insulation Tables (Climate Zones 3, 4, 5) | This class will discuss code requirements found in the prescriptive window and insulation requirements and how these requirements have changed through various code editions (2009-2021). The audience will learn how to interpret the tables, understand different insulation types that comply and explore innovative examples. The class will discuss how the code tables are intended to control conductive heat flow, and will explain how the code treats concepts like “effective R-value” and U-value. The class will also discuss flexibility allowed through different compliance options within the prescriptive compliance path. This module will cover IECC Climate Zones 3, 4, and 5 while other modules will cover other climate zones.Learning Objectives:
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Joe Nebbia |
| Energy Code – Module 4: Window & Insulation Tables (Climate Zones 6, 7 & 8) | This class will discuss code requirements found in the prescriptive window and insulation requirements and how these requirements have changed through various code editions (2009-2021). The audience will learn how to interpret the tables, understand different insulation types that comply and explore innovative examples. The class will discuss how the code tables are intended to control conductive heat flow, and will explain how the code treats concepts like “effective R-value” and U-value. The class will also discuss flexibility allowed through different compliance options within the prescriptive compliance path. This module will cover IECC Climate Zones 6, 7, and 8 while previous modules covered other climate zones.Learning Objectives:
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Joe Nebbia |
| Energy Code – Module 5: Insulation Installation Requirements | This class will discuss mandatory and prescriptive insulation requirements in the IECC, as well as the building science rationale for these requirements. Attendees will explore important code compliant installation details, learn in what ways the code is flexible with multiple installation options, and understand how the new structure and details in the 2021 IECC change compliance requirements. | Joe Nebbia |
| Energy Code – Module 6: Air Sealing Requirements | This class will discuss the air sealing requirements of the IECC, all of which are mandatory, as well as some new flexibility added in the 2021 IECC. The audience will learn what air sealing details are needed for compliance with the visual inspection tables, as well as air-tightness testing requirements in the code. The class will focus on successful strategies for meeting code air sealing targets. | Joe Nebbia |
| Energy Code – Module 7: Ducts, HVAC, Hot Water, and Lighting | This class will explain mandatory and prescriptive requirements related to duct installation, insulation, sealing, and testing, as well as requirements for heating, cooling, and hot water systems and controls. The class will also discuss mandatory requirements for mechanical ventilation and the building science rationale for these requirements. Attendees will also learn about code lighting requirements. An emphasis will be placed on explaining how these code requirements have changed through various editions of the IECC, and finally what the 2021 IECC requires. | Joe Nebbia |
| Energy Code Module 8: Performance path options (R405 and R406), and additional efficiency path options | Energy Code Module 8: Performance path options (R405 and R406), and additional efficiency path optionsThis class will explain how to use the various performance path options in the IECC (Section R405 and R406) – their structure, the flexibility allowed in each, and the limitations of each. The audience will explore various scenarios for which compliance path will best suit certain construction choices. Finally, the class will explain the new required additional efficiency packages in R408 in the 2021 IECC. | Joe Nebbia |
| Essential Market Trends to Grow your Business | This presentation is an update from the session presented at the 2019 EEBA conference.Understanding the drivers that facilitate market transformation, including consumer behavioral patterns, purchase drivers, and sentiment, can help any building professional make better business decisions. In this session, Green Builder Media CEO Sara Gutterman will reveal the latest market intelligence gathered by COGNITION Smart Data, offering deep insights into consumer preferences that will enable you to improve your marketing, sales, product development, and competitive positioning.Learning Objectives:
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Sara Gutterman |
| Front Porch Initiative: Linking Home Performance and Finance | For 26 years, Auburn University Rural Studio has engaged in research and real-world applications relating to rural housing in West Alabama, where approximately 30% of the population lives below the poverty line. Harnessing decades of knowledge, Rural Studio’s Front Porch Initiative aims to extend the impact of our housing affordability research by providing designs and technical assistance to housing providers. Directly addressing the systemic issues underlying affordability, the project analyzes not only what a house costs to construct, but also what it affords the homeowner, lender, and insurer. By linking home finance with building performance, the Initiative is working to create a new paradigm for housing affordability. This session will highlight Rural Studio’s iterative design/build process, showcase how we work with housing providers to scale the impacts of the research, and describe a finance model that could benefit homeowners, builders, lenders, and insurers across all home price-points.Learning Objectives :
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Emily McGlohn, Mackenzie Stagg, Elizabeth Farrell Garcia, & Rusty Smith |
| Future Proof Healthy Home Strategies with Panasonic and Swidget | Panasonic and Swidget have combined forces to empower your homes to monitor, assess, and optimize the healthy home and a multitude of other home automation possibilities.- Learn how to expand the jobs to be done by upgrading traditional wiring devices to smart devices.- Easily manage ventilation and other healthy home strategies with simple automations.- Technology develops fast and the only solution is to provide a future-proof design that is fully customizable and re-configurable. Learn how easy it is with Swidget.- Understand our simple Builder Package Options that are surprisingly affordable. | Justin Arghittu & Russell Pope |
| Green Math: NGBS Green + Net Zero Energy + Wellness = Max Value & Marketability | Since 2009, the ICC-700 National Green Building Standard (NGBS) has offered a flexible, rigorous, and affordable path to residential third-party green certification. Over 300,000 homes and apartments have earned NGBS Green Certification, and over 160,000 homes are in-process to earn certification.NGBS Green+ bestows special recognition for NGBS Green Certified homes that go “above and beyond” in certain areas of green practices. The +NET ZERO ENERGY and +WELLNESS badges are designed to recognize homes that are extremely energy efficient and constructed to be higher performing across multiple categories that influence human health, respectively.Join this session to learn about the compliance requirements and process for both NGBS Green certification and the new NGBS Green+ badges. A single-family builder will discuss how the +NET ZERO ENERGY badge benefits his business and home buyers. An NGBS Green Verifier will share design strategies for achieving +WELLNESS badge employed on single-family and multifamily projects.
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Cindy Wasser, Troy Johns, and Karla Butterfield |
| Health in the Ultimate Z.E.N. Home |
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Rich Binsacca & panelists |
| Healthier Homes Awareness for Building Professionals Certification | We are excited to share with you an opportunity that EEBA is spearheading alongside Allergy Standards, Ltd, Construction Instruction, and Trane Technologies.On Tuesday, May 5 th , EEBA hosted a webinar on “ Designing for Health in the Home ” with Dr. John McKeon. The response from the EEBA community was instant, with members asking for a way to certify their teams to better understand and market the benefits of health and wellness to their occupants. Alongside our Certified partner Trane Technologies and working with Construction Instruction, EEBA reached out to Allergy Standards to see if we could create an educational program specifically designed for Healthy Homes Certified Professionals that focuses on the Science, Health, Selling, Perspective and Building Science based knowledge that would be required to offer a Certification to our industry. We are pleased to be working alongside Allergy Standards and Construction Instruction to bring this training to the home building industry globally and are grateful to the generosity of Trane Technologies and an Anonymous donor that seeded this educational program with initial donations of $9000.There are a large number of building professionals in North America with extensive knowledge of their industry and product solutions for all areas of the home. It has been identified that a significant number of these professionals lack the knowledge of the outcomes that these products and services have on the building occupiers, especially where individuals in that building are impacted by respiratory issues (asthma & allergies). The goal of this program is to bridge that knowledge gap and give building professionals the confidence to ask questions and understand how the answers they receive will impact the solutions they recommend. WHAT IS IT?This course is being developed by asthma and allergy science experts at Allergy Standards. The same company behind the world famous asthma & allergy friendly® Certification:
Approximate duration: 0.5-2 hours per certification category On completion, certificate is posted the next working dayHaving certified asthma & allergy friendly products is a great way of demonstrating that your business cares about the welfare of the customer. The challenge that the customer faces is understanding the difference between certified and uncertified products.Instructor |
Dr. John McKeon |
| Healthier Homes or Healthy Home Washing? | This webinar will cover marketing strategies and upgrades that builders can provide to buyers that actually make the home “healthier” – than one that does not have these installations. Joe will cover the basic concept of healthier products and installations and how you can avoid liability of overpromising. Some builders are shifting from “Green” washing to “Healthy Home” washing by promising a healthy environment but not actually making the home “healthier.” During this webinar, we’ll cover multiple evidence-based healthier upgrades vs.new shiny objects like the ones that monitor a single room but do not control any ventilation or a filtration installation.Instructor: Joe Medosch |
Joe Medosch |
| Healthy Home Practices: COVID 19 and Beyond | Learn how to build and utilize a home to provide health to occupants plus essential steps you should be taking to start improving your home’s living spaces. Caroline Blazovsky, nationally recognized as America’s Healthy Home Expert, brings the latest information and innovations that allow us to diagnose unhealthy situations in a home and how our environment can contribute to our overall wellness. Learn how your biggest asset – your home – is also your biggest asset for health every day as well as in a pandemic.Instructor: Caroline Blazovsky |
Caroline Blazovsky |
| Healthy vs. Healthier Homes | A subject of conversation amongst builders as we come out the back end of the COVID era, is how we build healthier homes. The reality, however, is that much of what builders are currently doing is already creating a healthy home. Most just don’t know how to talk about it and/or market it. In this podcast style live conversation join Joe Medosch, Healthy Building Scientist at Hayward Score, and Robby Schwarz, BUILDTank, for a conversation on Healthy or Healthier Homes. We will explore all the great things builders are already doing and how to communicate those things to buyers. Then we will move forward to what is next that could make our home healthier.
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Joe Medosch and Robby Schwarz |
| Heat Pump Application & Design | This webinar will focus on sizing and application best practices for variable capacity heat pumps in new construction and low load spaces. We will briefly review fundamentals of heat pump capabilities and product types. We will also review basics of load reports in order to have a solid foundation for a discussion on heat pump applications.Learning Objectives:
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Kimberly Llewellyn |
| Help! I Need Somebody Workforce Woes, Work Arounds, and What Abouts | The need for housing is rising across the country with home buyer demand far outpacing supply in most markets. All this demand creates a terrific opportunity to build high-performance homes. The problem is the shortage of skilled labor is nearly as severe as the shortage of available homes. Thousands of skilled craftsmen are retiring each year and the pipeline of new employees is just a trickle, with few young workers choosing the trades as a career path, leaving builders everywhere lamenting the lack of laborers. Join us to see how some high-performance home builders are tackling the problem head-on with training programs for young workers and creative approaches to finding and keeping good subs and staff. You’ll also hear about government initiatives that could help. But since we need new ideas on such a massive scale, we want to hear from you too: What are your biggest workforce woes? How do you find talent? Where do you go for training? What ideas do you have for attracting, training, and retaining the next generations of skilled builders? Join us for this interactive session to learn and share your thoughts on this critical challenge to the homebuilding industry.
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David Kendall, Ryan Hillgartner, Rick Wertheim, Marye Hefty, and Theresa Gilbride |
| Helping Make Healthier Indoor Air More Affordable with Greenheck | This Webinar Covers:1. Why Home Builders need a new IAQ Partner.2. Why the antiquated residential-grade ventilation wholesale distribution model does not work for Home Builders.3. Why Home Builders cannot rely on residential-grade ventilation fans to perform in common installation scenarios.4. Why everyone (Home Builders, their contractors, their homeowners, and EEBA) all win by partnering directly with Greenheck. | Jim Shelton, Brian Kincaid |
| HERS Associate Course | Mike Barcik | |
| High Performance All-Electric Home Design and Construction for Cold Climates | Description: This webinar will review market-ready and innovative technology options for all-electric homes in cold climates. The class will discuss building envelope options as well as HVAC and water heating solutions.Learning Objectives:
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Matt Evans |
| High Performance HVAC Contractor | This cutting-edge designation includes valuable education for all HVAC contractors and trade allies. Participants will learn about the latest technologies, products and systems available to create healthier, more efficient homes and to be able to communicate more effectively to their customers/homeowners.The EEBA High Performance HVAC Contractor Designation will be earned by completing and passing the following courses:
All accredited professionals will be able to use the High Performance HVAC Contractor Designation logo, and be listed in the EEBA registry of accredited professionals. |
Aaron Smith |
| High Performance Insulated Rooflines | This virtual session is intended for professionals in the home performance industry including designers and builders of new, efficient homes. This webinar begins with an overview of building science issues and concepts as they pertain to the roof/ceiling portion of the building thermal envelope. Merits of insulated ceilings and rooflines will be discussed so that participants may apply this knowledge to conditioned attics and vaulted ceilings. The session will review how current energy codes recognize insulated rooflines and will examine different approaches using a combination of methods and materials.Instructor : Mike Barcik |
Mike Barcik |
| High Performance Mechanicals for Houses That Work | Gord Cooke | |
| High Performance Zero Energy Home Design | High performance zero energy homes provide many benefits including cost savings, energy resiliency, durability, comfort, and sustainable operation. While these types of homes have been built for a long time, the knowledge of how to build them has historically been kept by few. Now with increasingly stringent building codes across the U.S., driven by long-term energy policy and growing demands on the energy grid, all builders and implementers need to know how to build high performance. This session will review key strategies to build high performance zero energy homes discussing measures that impact building envelope, heating, cooling, ventilation, water heating, and other loads. The presentation will highlight electric technology including heat pumps.Learning Objectives:
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Alea German |
| High-Performance Homes – A Simpler Design Strategy | Building and energy codes are pushing builders beyond traditional minimum code wood-framed construction into a more building science-oriented ‘high-performance’ home that requires testing for verification to meet specific standards. To meet these requirements, the new wood framed wall assemblies require more components and more attention to detail, all of which adds construction time, material, and labor costs. The recognition by building science experts that thermal bridging, poor batt insulation applications, and air sealing issues have a direct influence on performance in the short term and the long term for these homes is noteworthy. Having almost 50 years of experience, plus new comparative wall assembly testing, the insulated concrete form wall assembly should be recognized as a simple passive design solution, utilizing an airtight insulated thermal mass assembly, exceeding energy code requirements in all climate zones.Learing Objectives:
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Tom Patton |
| House as a System – A Holistic Approach (Part 1) | Webinars 2 and 3 explore the 11 critical steps involved in building a house as a ‘system.’ Customer comfort is paramount and we have to consider how the client will use their home. We must ask ourselves one simple question: “Am I making the homeowner’s life easier or harder?” Webinar 2 looks at how to avoid improper planning and design from the outset, both of which can impact the entire home and create costly errors and rework.Learning Objectives:1. Evaluate home design review using a holistic approach2. Understand how a client uses their home3. Identify wall systems that create effective R Value4. Understanding air tightness and water management detailing5. Planning your solar design earlyInstructor: Doug Tarry |
Doug Tarry |
| House as a System – A Holistic Approach (Part 2) | Webinar 3 concludes our review of the 11 critical steps involved in building a house as a ‘system.’ We look at managing occupant comfort and indoor air quality through system design by addressing such topics as building a better basement wall, reducing the A/C size, and creating greater comfort in the house by the windows we select, to name a few. Learning Objectives:1. Basement walls: understanding the strange case of Jekyll & Hyde.2. Analyzing windows – design for humans, not cyborgs.3. Recognizing high performance HVAC. Right size matters!4. Understanding loads and impacts for heating, cooling, ventilation, and humidity. Instructor: Doug Tarry |
Doug Tarry |
| Houses That Work Course: Modules |
This course outlines the building science physics of air, heat and moisture flow that every builder should know so they can understand why some buildings work and others don’t. The course will address critical home performance elements that exist as a system and are part of energy efficient homes. The fundamentals of building science will be outlined and applied to help participants make better choices with respect to construction materials and methods. Participants will also learn important information about indoor air quality, including the basics of mold and other pollutant sources, and cost-effective strategies to be able to offer healthier indoor environments.
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Read the Houses That Work course outline hereGord Cooke is a professional engineer with over 25 years of experience in the low and high-rise residential building industry. As an educator, industry consultant and much sought-after presenter, Gord has a unique talent for taking the building science issues that he sees in the field, and presenting them in an easily understood and practical real-world manner. Gord has particular expertise in applied building science, energy efficient housing initiatives, innovative HVAC systems, ventilation and Indoor Air Quality (IAQ). He has developed and delivered a multitude of workshops in these fields, as well as sales and marketing courses for builders and real estate agents to help them best promote the features and benefits of high performance houses.These modules are free for EEBA members and discount will be applied at checkout. |
Gord Cooke |
| Houses That Work Course: Test |
This course outlines the building science physics of air, heat and moisture flow that every builder should know so they can understand why some buildings work and others don’t. The course will address critical home performance elements that exist as a system and are part of energy efficient homes. The fundamentals of building science will be outlined and applied to help participants make better choices with respect to construction materials and methods. Participants will also learn important information about indoor air quality, including the basics of mold and other pollutant sources, and cost-effective strategies to be able to offer healthier indoor environments.
Learning Objectives:
Gord Cooke is a professional engineer with over 25 years of experience in the low and high-rise residential building industry. As an educator, industry consultant and much sought-after presenter, Gord has a unique talent for taking the building science issues that he sees in the field, and presenting them in an easily understood and practical real-world manner. Gord has particular expertise in applied building science, energy efficient housing initiatives, innovative HVAC systems, ventilation and Indoor Air Quality (IAQ). He has developed and delivered a multitude of workshops in these fields, as well as sales and marketing courses for builders and real estate agents to help them best promote the features and benefits of high performance houses. |
Gord Cooke |
| How Can Low-Cost IAQ Monitors Benefit Builders and Contractors | These gadgets just won’t disappear! They are becoming more popular with occupants and contractors. This session will provide an overview on what they can monitor, how to get the data and what can they integrate with inside the home. Ultimately to make the home healthier – without alarming the occupant. The indirect benefits of these monitors are to educate / inform the occupant about making better choices in their homes – healthier habits. The session addresses the inherent limitations of one device in a single room vs. multiple sensors throughout the home. I will provide an independent outlook of the new integrated sensors and ventilation opportunities from Panasonic and Broan-NuTone that will be released in 2021 (realistic date). Also, some new products from TZOA, the HAVEN, an IAQ WiFi sensor for the H/AC ductwork, and some other new innovations.I will provide sound recommendations on how these devices can technically work in a “healthy home” and in marketing opportunities – and how to avoid the new “Healthy Washing,” similar to the Green Washing we finally overcame.Instructor : Joe MedoschCEU’s : 1 AIA, 1 BPI, 1 NAHB, 1 NARI, 1 RESNET, and 1 GENERAL**A maximum of 6 NAHB credits can be earned for entire Summit |
Joe Medosch |
| How Has Optimum Value Engineering Gotten Corrupted? | When a builder calls a meeting to optimum value engineer a plan, we must step back and understand what the true goal is. First clue is that the meeting is occurring after the building has been designed. Therefore, the meeting is probably more about “budget” engineering than “value” engineering. The ensuing discussion revolves around budget reduction choices, reducing project scope, and how to get within or below a target budget. How have we gotten to this point, and how do we bring value back into the equation?Instructors : Robby Schwarz & Jeffrey RhodinCEU’s : 1 AIA, 1 BPI, 1 NAHB, 1 NARI, 1 RESNET, and 1 GENERAL**A maximum of 6 NAHB credits can be earned for entire Summit |
Robby Schwarz & Jeffrey Rhodin |
| How to Cost-Effectively Build Zero Energy Homes | *This training has been designed for Oregon building industry professionals and will include information on OR-specific case studies and programs, however audiences from outside Oregon will find value in the content and are welcome to attend. Eliminate barriers to ZE home construction and earn a ‘Zero Energy Professional’ designation. Join EEBA and Earth Advantage for this three-part webinar series on affordable Zero Energy (ZE) home design and construction. Learn how to eliminate common barriers to Zero Energy (ZE) home construction, benefit from the rapid trend towards ZE, and earn a ‘Zero Energy Professional’ designation.Zero Energy (ZE) homes are a big part of the future of homebuilding business. While the materials and equipment to reach zero energy are available, designers and builders must create a bundle of energy-efficiency features that matches their climate, customers, and business constraints. There is no one-size-fits-all solution. This training will lay out numerous elements of zero energy homebuilding so professionals can formulate a unique package appropriate for their situation.Participants in this training will learn design principles, equipment options, emerging technologies, material selections, and construction practices that can be integrated into their building process. Strong emphasis is placed on ways to make the final product affordable for homebuyers. Other topics include housing market drivers, localized resources, Oregon case studies, incentive programs, ways to assess and communicate economic benefits, and next steps to put principles into practice.’Zero Energy Professional’ Designation Participants will have the opportunity to earn EEBA’s ‘Zero Energy Professional’ designation and be listed on EEBA & Earth Advantage registries of accredited professionals. To earn the designation, attendees must pass a designation exam and have completed and passed prerequisite trainings.Learning Objectives:
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Bruce Sullivan |
| How to Cut Your Heating & Electric Bill and Carbon Footprint to Zero, by Someone Who Has Done It | This free webinar will help you to save a lot of money and cut your carbon footprint. In addition, all attendees will receive a free electronic version (for iPad or Kindle) of David Green’s highly-acclaimed book Zero Carbon Home. In this webinar I describe what we did to cut our home’s carbon footprint, heating bill and electricity bill to zero. I am saving so much money on bills that I am earning a 15% return on my investments in heat pumps, insulation, triple-glazed windows and solar panels, which I call the fab four. Yes, I am a Brit and a Beatles fan. | David Green |
| Humidity in Hindsight – Dialing in on a New Vision for Moisture Control | Controlling moisture is a major component for controlling indoor air quality. The first step is to keep the water out. EPA’s Indoor airPLUS Program starts with bulk moisture management, but there are other key factors to consider with regard to moisture control.Relative humidity (RH) conditions vary throughout the country. In hot, humid climates, Indoor airPLUS has previously addressed moisture vapor control with additional requirements for HVAC controls or dedicated dehumidification. Controlling the relative humidity in the entire home is often one of the biggest impacts to truly achieving a healthy home. Can an energy recovery ventilator (ERV) or heat pump water heater be used in lieu of a dehumidifier? What can be done if the house is too dry?This presentation will address the health impacts of controlling relative humidity in homes, what to look for in homes, questions to help occupants understand if they have a health-related moisture problem, and how to successful apply moisture control strategies to the entire home. We will discuss why traditional methods may no longer effectively meet new moisture demands and the building science perspective on the challenges that builders and building performance contractors must learn. This session will also examine some common challenges and best practices that address moisture vapor issues. Attendees will have a chance to preview various approaches to controlling RH and learn how requirements in EPA’s Indoor airPLUS Program are continuing to evolve in Version 2 of the Construction Specifications.Learning Objectives :
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Paul Raymer, David Treleven, & Nikki Krueger |
| HVAC Fault Detection and Diagnostics – Options for Offering Homeowners Worry-Free Heating and Cooling | Improper installation and maintenance of space heating and cooling systems leads to increased energy use, costly repairs, and occupant comfort issues. Heating and cooling issues are one of the top five reasons for new home customer callbacks and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) researchers estimate that 9% of the electricity used on air conditioning and heat pump heating is wasted nationwide is wasted due to faulty installations, costing homeowners $2.5 billion annually (NREL 2020). Several promising residential fault detection and diagnostics technologies exist that ensure both new and existing HVAC systems are installed and operating correctly and efficiently. In this interactive session, we’ll provide an overview of available fault detection and diagnostics technologies, and give you a chance to provide your thoughts on how these technologies might help you offer a more compelling product to your homebuyers. In addition, we’ll introduce the DOE’s Residential HVAC Smart Diagnostic Tool Campaign and the support and recognition homebuilders can receive from participating in the campaign.
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Christian Valoria and Walter Hunt |
| IECC’s Relevance in the Age of City Climate Action Goals | Major cities around the country have created significant climate action goals and are developing significant policies and codes to reach them. How are these goals, policies, and codes aligned with the IECC? Will the IECC be a player to move us forward or has the energy code run its course and now its up to cities to take us the next step?Learning Objectives
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Robby Schwarz & Scott Prisco |
| In-Home Triggers | Dr. John takes us on a fascinating ‘walk through’ of a typical house spotting common reservoirs of indoor triggers that can lead to poor air quality and negative health outcomes. Learn the positive impacts of ventilation, source control, and cleaning. Become an expert in spotting the potential triggers and help your customers build the best, healthiest, indoor environment possible.Learning Objectives
• A room-by-room guide to airborne triggers that create negative health outcomes, including The importance of ventilation, source control, and cleaning
• Understand what rooms we find these triggers in, and other home features that impact indoor air quality
• Develop a systematic approach to identifying, controlling, and even eliminating the sources of indoor pollutants and allergens.
• Inhalation and triggers caused by: The material of the building envelope, decoration and room finishes, air handling and airflow, what we bring into the building, how to maintain a building
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Dr. John McKeon |
| Indoor Air Quality Sensors Test Method | With increased focus on health and indoor air quality, the industry has seen a boom of low-cost indoor air quality sensor systems that measure a variety of pollutants and other substances. These sensors are being using in a wide array of applications, often being included in consumer IAQ feedback devices, and even sometimes being used to control demand-responsive ventilation. The potential for both increased indoor air quality, as well as more efficient ventilation systems carries the possibility of important steps forward in home performance. During the COVID-19 Pandemic, this topic has risen in prominence with sensors being used to detect various substances (CO2 for example) as a proxy for viral load in a space. However, the big question remaining is how well these sensors work. Recent experiments suggest significant variation in the industry related to the performance of low-cost sensors. Since 2017, Newport has worked with the DOE Building America program, in partnership with South Coast Air Quality Management District, the Home Ventilating Institute (HVI), and Healthy Air Research and Certification Authority (HARCA) to develop standardized test methods for evaluating the performance of these sensors using a laboratory test chamber. Newport is currently leading two test methods through the ASTM standard development process: one for PM2.5 sensors and one for CO2 Sensors. HVI and HARCA are developing plans for an industry certification process, both of consumer feedback devices, and of sensors integrated with ventilation controls that will be based on the finalized test methods. Once the first two test methods are finalized, future test methods for other pollutants can be based on these models. Newport and HVI will share the technical work performed to develop these standards as well as the future of industry efforts to bring certification of IAQ sensor systems to the market.
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Joe Nebbia and Matt Matheny |
| Indoor Air Quality: System Approach for a Post-Covid Future | This presentation addresses the challenges and opportunities associated with providing healthy indoor spaces going forward into a post-COVID future. The presentation discusses filtration, ultraviolet light, and hydro-peroxides as different methods for cleaning air, as well as various products available on the market today. The authors discuss and quanitify their conclusion that a system approach is needed using a combination of all three methods in order to provide the healthiest indoor air quality possible, which will be able to heavily mitigate or even eliminate the risks associated with airborne viruses in indoor spaces.Please click this link to be taken to the written version upon which the presentation will be based: https://online.flippingbook.com/view/295533339/
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Ted Konechne and Aaron Holden |
| Indoor airPLUS Version 2 Reaches for the Sky: New Opportunities for Healthier Multifamily Buildings | In late 2019, with the advent of ENERGY STAR’s Multifamily New Construction Program (MFNC), EPA’s Indoor airPLUS Program incorporated MFNC as a viable pre-requisite for buildings up to 5 stories. If Indoor airPLUS works for five stories, why wouldn’t it work for twelve or sixteen stories? Conceptually it would seem simple to apply the same indoor air quality details for taller buildings; however, as buildings get taller, some physical elements change beyond the height. Driving forces and internal pressures change as buildings get taller. Ventilation and air sealing details also become more complex, making compartmentalization increasingly critical. Materials and methods are often different for large facades and flat roofs, while interior moisture vapor and humidity control also require attention in design and construction. Radon-resistant construction is still incredibly important for multifamily buildings; but these structures often include parking garages, retail spaces, or other residentially-associated common spaces. How should these areas be addressed to reduce the risk of poor IAQ for the occupants? This session will examine how Indoor airPLUS Version 2 intends to address these issues with additional requirements built on the foundation of ENERGY STAR MFNC. Attendees will have a chance to preview these changes and learn how to provide valuable feedback to EPA as the program continues to evolve to improve IAQ in this growing sector. | Nick Hurst, Gayathri Vijayakumar, & Karla Butterfield |
| Indoor Pathogens |
In this course, we delve into statistics, medical language, and how to talk to customers in a relatable way. We learn about gasses, particles, and biologicals and conduct basic conversations about these hazards. Brief punchy videos not only to understand more about pathogens such as Coronavirus. But how to control the impact of pathogens within a building.Learning Objectives • Understand what is in the air in our homes and what can cause problems
• Understand clean air terms in context with the construction industry – such as what a Pathogen is.
• Learn how dangerous chemicals, biologicals, and allergens get into the air and what keeps them there
• Understand what an allergen is, such as ragweed allergen, dust mite allergen, and other household air-borne allergens
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Dr. John McKeon |
| Infiltration vs. Ventilation vs. Manual J | We have learned that proper execution of the building thermal envelope dictates a home’s performance, but a home’s R-values, air leakage, and ventilation rates, among other things, impact its heating and cooling loads. How do we connect our design with our execution to ensure the HVAC system that was designed before the house is built works after it has been built? This session points out how infiltration and ventilation are not the same, and among other things can be used to grossly oversize HVAC systems if we are not on the same page as our trade partners.Learning Obectives:
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Robby Schwarz |
| Introduction to Phius ZERO | Phius 2021 is the next progression of the Phius passive building standards which were created to guide builders to success in the design and construction of passive buildings. The well-known Phius performance path now has two levels related to overall building impact: the CORE target to acknowledge aggressive load reduction and energy conservation and the ZERO target to build upon CORE but also fully electrify and net out operational energy use with renewable energy. Phius ZERO marks the next step towards making net zero universal. The Phius ZERO standard has other provisions to reduce emissions and support decarbonization efforts including banning on-site fossil fuel combustion and using a future predicted electric grid emissions scenario for calculating the impact of using electricity versus natural gas on site. Learn more about the mandatory requirements of the standard, renewable energy options to get to zero, building your project team, and next steps if you choose to pursue this for your project. Learning Objectives:1. Understand the history and origin of high performance passive buildings, passive principles, and how the standards are derived from and built upon these principles & concepts.2. Recognize the core passive principles and how they are applied in various climate zones and result in varying passive building solutions and lay the foundation for net zero energy buildings. 3. Examine the recommendations and performance requirements for buildings pursuing Phius Certification for CORE or ZERO.4. Recall the suggested timeline, project team members, their roles, and the Phius Certified professionals that must be involved if pursuing Phius Certification. |
Lisa White |
| Keep A Lid On It: Best Practices for Reducing Cooking Pollution in Homes | Air sealing and window closing can help reduce air pollutant intrusion and energy use in homes, but such efforts must also include control of major indoor pollutant sources such as cooking. A new industry rating program for the pollutant capture efficiency of range hoods is coming soon and will become part of building ventilation standards. ROCIS.org has developed best practice recommendations for ducted range hoods in new and existing buildings. The recommendations are based on international research and expert advisor input. The recommendations include guidance on how to design, install, and operate a quiet, effective range hood system, and how to assess the need for makeup air. Cooking practices, building standards, and technologies that help reduce cooking emissions are also discussed.
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Tom Phillips |
| KEYNOTE: Builder to a Brand – How to Successfully Market Your Firm Through Social Media | Learn how to use social media as tools to better your brand.Instructor : Brad LeavittCEU’s : 1 AIA, 1 BPI, 1 NAHB, 1 NARI, 1 RESNET, and 1 GENERAL**A maximum of 6 NAHB credits can be earned for entire Summit |
Brad Leavitt |
| KEYNOTE: Creating Authentic Community with Food & Agriculture: P. Allen Smith’s Moss Mountain Farm | P. Allen Smith is a fifth-generation nurseryman and horticulturalist who has been inspired since childhood to promote good stewardship of the earth. Mr. Smith’s Arkansas home–Moss Mountain Farm–has inspired visitors and viewers for over 12 years with an alternative model to our often chemically saturated, artificial, and detached modern lifestyle. Many will recognize Smith from CBS’s The Early Show, NBC’s Today Show, the Weather Channel, and his own PBS television program P. Allen Smith Garden Home. Smith has used television to empower viewers to discover their personal style and create beautiful indoor and outdoor living spaces in their own homes. His mission is to inspire, cultivate health and mindfulness, and ultimately help others live a more natural life. In addition to his own private landscape design firm, Smith is the founding partner of Oliver-Smith, a full-lifecycle conservation town & community design group with a specialty on near-urban land tracts. His projects consider large impact conservation and environmental concerns, and the lifestyle, amenity, health, design and green demands of the 21st century home buyer. He is working to expand his environmental reach beyond the homesites and communities he designs by actively partnering with similarly purpose-focused professionals and companies. Notably, Smith has recently partnered with a speciality Structural Insulated Panel (SIPs) company to assist homeowners, builders and developers alike reduce waste, increase health of residents, and approach and meet net zero building energy goals. Smith will share insights from his background in horticulture, experience at Moss Mountain Farm, media, and design that inspired him to a higher environmental calling…and may share more than one chicken joke!Instructor : P. Allen SmithCEU’s : 1 AIA, 1 BPI, 1 NAHB, 1 NARI, 1 RESNET, and 1 GENERAL**A maximum of 6 NAHB credits can be earned for entire Summit |
P. Allen Smith |
| KEYNOTE: Pivot!, Catching Customers and Mastering Change | Instructor : Tim CostelloCEU’s : 1 AIA, 1 BPI, 1 NAHB, 1 NARI, 1 RESNET, and 1 GENERAL**A maximum of 6 NAHB credits can be earned for entire Summit |
Tim Costello |
| Kicking Gas! Going All-Electric for the Health of Your Family and the Earth | “Decarbonization” and “electrification” are becoming household words in some parts of the country. This presentation will demystify these terms, covering the motivations, benefits, and nuts and bolts of making the switch — transitioning mixed-fuel homes to 100% electricity. If you have concerns about indoor air quality, resiliency, or the changing climate, there’s something for you in this webinar. Learning objectives: After attending this presentation, attendees will be able to:· Explain the benefits of electrifying homes to clients, friends, and family· Understand how electrification supports resiliency goals· Differentiate between the two electric alternatives to each of the four typical residential gas appliances· Create a customized home electrification roadmapInstructor: Ann Edminster |
Ann Edminster |
| Lessons from Zero Energy Ready Home Builders | Innovative builders in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Zero Energy Ready Home Program are showing that it is possible to achieve HERS scores of zero and lower at reasonable cost, in homes that are resilient, durable, comfortable, and energy efficient while achieving healthy indoor air quality. This presentation lays out a path to net zero energy home construction offered by the DOE Zero Energy Ready Home program. Program specifications are outlined for both a prescriptive and a performance path to achieve zero energy home certification. Construction methods used by Zero Energy Ready home builders are compared with those used by builders of just-to-code new homes and existing homes for key components like wall assemblies, HVAC systems, and other important energy-efficiency measures. Data are presented from the successes of nearly 5,000 DOE Zero Energy Ready Homes constructed over the past nine years including case study snapshots of this year’s DOE Housing Innovation Award winners. These builders represent every facet of the home construction industryincluding production, custom, affordable, and multifamily home builders.Learning Objectives :
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Theresa Gilbride, Terrence Mosley, & Joe Nebbia |
| Linking Advanced Building and Workforce to Careers/Programs | This class is intended for students, entry-level workers, or people experienced in the home building industry looking for career path advancement options. The class explores various career paths, using career map tools intended to explain various options for people interested in careers in innovative, high-performance home construction. Attendees will be introduced to basic building science concepts, as well as a variety of career path examples. The class will establish a link between innovative building practices and career advancement options.Learning Objectives:- Describe resources for improving building science education within their organization.- Evaluate presented messaging approaches for communicating the value of high performance.- Describe a variety of careers/programs in advanced energy efficiency.- Understand a variety of accredited programs.Instructor : Sam Bowles |
Sam Bowles |
| Low Rise Residential Buildings as a Climate Solution | Our low-rise, residential sector could be world leaders in preventing climate change. This session will show how material selection and energy efficiency can go hand-in-hand to create new homes that no longer contribute to climate change, but actually reverse climate change. By understanding the greenhouse gas emissions from our materials, our fuel use and our energy efficiency, we can fine-tune solutions that match budgets, climatic zones and market needs with serious climate action. This session will look at the tools available to quickly and easily understand the “carbon use intensity” of our buildings and how we can use them to make affordable homes that make us climate heroes instead of climate villains.
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Chris Magwood |
| Mainstreaming Modular High-Performance Homes: Research, Collaboration, & Best Practices of Building Science & Construction | The 3-part session will be moderated by NREL and aims to focus on knowledge dissemination from ongoing research, collaboration opportunities, and best practices thriving at the intersection of advance building science and advanced building construction to deliver affordable high-performance homes.Part 1: Ongoing Research: Brief insight to NREL’s early wins in leveraging the benefits of industrialized construction—higher-quality buildings, faster construction timelines, improved productivity, increased technology integration, and labor cost savings—to enable cost-effective strategies for high-efficiency and beyond (zero carbon/electrification), healthy homes (including indoor air quality), integrated high-performance HVAC, and resilience (integrated grid-interactive controls and renewables).Part 2: Collaboration Opportunities for High Performance Housing Professionals: Introduction by Wells Fargo presenter on Housing Affordability Breakthrough Challenge and the WF Innovation Incubator (IN2). Housing professionals will learn about their details, how these opportunities are part of WF’s affordable housing initiative, and how they align strongly with NREL’s expertise in construction innovation and energy efficiency.Part 3: As an effort to mainstreaming affordable high-performance homes, NREL is engaging with building manufacturers, developers, and permanent modular construction factories to overcome barriers of cost, construction speed, and limited labor expertise. NREL has identified best practices of modular high-performance home builders and have invited SimpleHomes to present about their thriving business.
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Trish Cozart, Shanti Pless, Ankur Podder, Stacey Rothgeb, & David Schultz |
| Make like a Delorean with the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Professionals Program | Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads. Or a Delorean for that matter: the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon competition organizers are helping to bring the current building designers back to the future through the Solar Decathlon Professional Program. At its core, the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon is a student building design competition that challenges collegiate-level teams from across the world to design high-performance buildings that address real-world issues. New in 2021, the Professionals Program pilot brings the Solar Decathlon experience to practicing design professionals in the residential and commercial building sectors. Participants gain practical experience in high-performance design while improving a current project in their portfolio to a zero energy building. The program provides resources to minimize barriers for the adoption of high-performance principles in their work, including a professional network and structured curriculum focused on building science fundamentals.This session will highlight the successes of the pilot and bring lessons learned from the participating professionals to a broader audience. Attendees will walk away from this session with an understanding of the program, its benefits to workforce development, and innovative design strategies from successful professional participants.
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Amanda Kirkeby, Michael Young |
| Making Cent$ (and Dollar$) out of High-Performance Home Certifications | You might be a high-performance home expert, but are you able to easily navigate through the requirements of all the third-party home certification programs out there? The choices for independently-verified green home certification programs might be overwhelming, but this session will help to cut through the chaos and explain how many of the programs can be complementary to one another. Experts from six different national programs will discuss how each program compares with one another while also highlighting how certifications can be used by builders to set themselves apart in their marketplace, sell homes faster and increase profits. Through a structured Q&A session, this robust panel will weigh aspects of each program to help raters and builders evaluate the potential incorporation of multiple green certifications into future residential projects.Learning Objectives :
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Karla Butterfield, Dean Gamble, Nicholas Hurst, Jonah Schein, Lisa White, Anna Stern, & Joe Nebbia |
| Manual BV – Residential Balanced Ventilation Design | Tight homes require mechanical ventilation and the ideal way to accomplish that from both an energy efficiency and indoor air quality standpoint is with balanced ventilation. Without guidance, however, balanced ventilation can be as ineffective as a fish without water. This session details a design manual for residential balanced ventilation from developing a ventilation plan, distribution, integration with forced air systems, and duct installation to system testing and balancing, commissioning, maintenance, and consumer appreciation. A commitment to including balanced ventilation in a residential project requires more than just buying a box of fans. Balanced ventilation is more expensive, more complicated, and more effective, but it must be treated with the same care that is applied to a conditioned air system. The point of this session is to alert participants to the complexity and qualities of a well designed, balanced ventilation system. If it doesn’t work, it’s not worth squat!
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Paul Raymer |
| Marketing to a Changed Market | The COVID-19 crisis is causing homeowners to re-evaluate their needs and wants in a home. That will likely be good news for the high performance home building community. Suzanne Shelton, CEO of Shelton Group, will share insights about shifting expectations on health, control, comfort, energy efficiency and IAQ. She’ll also share new expectations on companies and lay out a framework for how you can position your company to align with these new expectations and thrive.Instructor: Suzanne Shelton |
Suzanne Shelton |
| Meeting the Carbon Challenge—Decarbonization Strategies for High Performance Builders | After decades of striving towards higher levels of energy efficiency, high performance builders are now facing the decarbonization challenge. The path towards operational decarbonizing of our homes is straightforward and leads through net zero energy to electrification. But what about the embodied carbon of the home itself? And what about internal decarbonization of the building process?
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Gene Myers, George Sullivan, John McLinden, Leigha Dickens, Stacy Smedley |
| Moving Beyond v3.0: What’s Next with ENERGY STAR Single-Family New Homes? | The National Version 3.0 of the ENERGY STAR Single-Family New Homes program was originally released over 10 years ago. Today, 22 states plus the District of Columbia have moved beyond, to National Version 3.1 or regional requirements that are equally or more stringent.Other changes are afoot. Even in states still using Version 3.0, the average score of energy rated homes continues to improve. The 2021 IECC sets a new high-water mark for national model codes. And studies consistently indicate that more ambitious goals are needed to reduce the greenhouse gasses generated by the residential sector.This session will cover three significant programmatic developments that EPA is proposing in response, which will allow the ENERGY STAR Single-Family New Homes program to move beyond Version 3.0.
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Dean Gamble |
| Net Zero Energy and Battery Storage in the Ultimate Z.E.N. Home | The Ultimate Z.E.N. Home features a 7.8 kWh rooftop solar array as a standard feature to help achieve net-zero energy goals. But instead of selling surplus electricity back to the local utility as energy credits, an innovative battery storage system scaled for single-family keeps it on site. Learn how Thrive Home Builders incorporated that system (and why) and its impact on energy resources for housing. Hosted by Rich Binsacca, Editor-in-Chief of ProBuilder, we will also hear from panelists Sam Rashkin from the Department of Energy, Bill Rectanus of Thrive Home Builders, Adam Weinstein of sonnen Inc., Dennis Helblig of SunStreet, and Nathan Kahre from EnergyLogic. | Rich Binsacca & panelists |
| New Webinar | Luodan Rojas | |
| Next Gen Zero | It’s hard to believe that the original DOE Zero Energy Ready Home program requirements are already over 7 years old. Over this time, they have been adopted by hundreds of builders as well as affordable housing programs, local codes, and state Stretch Codes. This includes over 6,000 certified homes encompassing custom, production, modular, affordable, multifamily, and even a few tiny homes throughout the United States. Over this same time period, there’s been a huge surge of state and local policies to achieve greater levels of energy efficiency and emissions reductions. In addition, new innovations for building enclosures, lighting, ventilation, heating/cooling, IAQ and many other areas have arrived in the marketplace or are coming soon. And most recently, the 2021 IECC has raised the bar further to continue the push for energy efficiency in new U.S. homes. This is all to say, it’s time to look at new changes for Zero Energy Ready Home. During this session, we’ll review potential updates to program specs that would deliver meaningful, cost-effective improvements in energy efficiency, building performance, and resilience. Potential timelines for “DOE ZERH 2.0” updates will be discussed, and stakeholder feedback will be solicited along the way. Join us for a look at the exciting future for housing. It keeps getting better.Instructors : Sam Rashkin & Jamie LyonsCEU’s : 1 AIA, 1 BPI, 1 NAHB, 1 NARI, 1 RESNET, and 1 GENERAL**A maximum of 6 NAHB credits can be earned for entire Summit |
Sam Rashkin & Jamie Lyons |
| Opening Plenary Session: Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise | Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: How the pursuit of healthy buildings, that are good for people, planet, and profits, is the way forward for purpose-driven professionals. Session from EEBA’s 2021 High Performance Home Summit.Session speakers: Dr. John McKeon, CEO of Allergy Standards Ltd and Gord Cooke, Partner at Construction InstructionModerated by: Aaron Smith, CEO of EEBALinks: https://www.allergystandards.com/https://constructioninstruction.com/https://www.eeba.org/designations/healthier-homes |
Dr. John McKeon, Gord Cooke |
| Options for Advanced Walls | What comes to mind when we say Advanced Walls? Is it 3D printed assemblies? Is this just another term for advanced framing? In this session, Dan Wildenhaus – Technical Advisor and Industry Liaison for BetterBuiltNW – will go over some of the critical components of an advanced wall assembly, walls that reduce thermal bridging, improve building tightness, and have an overall UA reduction of at least 5% over the 2018 IECC. After introducing several strategies and wall designs, the webinar will focus on three potential big “next steps” for builders looking to exceed the energy code: Thermal Break Shear Wall/Extended Plate Beam, Exterior Air Barrier critical details, and interactive tools for UA calculations and tradeoffs.Instructor: Dan Wildenhaus |
Dan Wildenhaus |
| Options for Balanced Ventilation & Tighter Envelopes | We’ve all heard that we need to “Build Tight and Ventilate Right,” but do we have the approaches that we need that are cost competitive, bring sales opportunities, and are beneficial to resiliency, comfort, and IEQ? In this webinar, we’ll briefly cover why it’s important to use balanced ventilation in tighter homes, but we will then move on to the most common strategies for getting each component right. This includes strategies for achieving tighter buildings and then a review of the seven most common balanced ventilation strategies with some tips and tricks along the way to make it work. Join Dan Wildenhaus, Technical Advisor and Industry Liaison for BetterBuiltNW on this journey to getting homes dialed in for our codes, certification programs, and most importantly our homebuyers’ future experience.Instructor: Dan Wildenhaus |
Dan Wildenhaus |
| Over or Under? The Best Options for Installing Both a WRB and Continuous Exterior Insulation | Adding continuous exterior insulation is recognized in the building code as an option for residential structures; and building science supports its use. Unfortunately, few manufacturers provide the details of how to incorporate both a WRB and the insulation with install instructions. Do you put the wrap over or under the foam? What if the windows are installed first? Or if the windows are recessed? Do I use the same fastening schedule? This presentation will provide answers to these questions and many more, including detailed installation instructions for any wrap and foam wall assembly.Instructor : William RansonCEU’s : 1 GENERAL |
William Ranson |
| Overcoming PG&E’s Public Safety Power Shutoffs with Solar+Storage | In the Fall of 2019, over 3 million people in Northern California faced a startling realization as PG&E’s Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS) commenced, leaving homes completely powerless for days at a time. The PSPS program was designed to preemptively de-energize transmission lines considered “at risk for failure” by the heightened fire threat due to dry conditions and gusty winds. The October 2019 PSPS events were the worst suffered in California’s history, leaving over 940,000 PG&E customers without power for several days on two separate occasions. Homeowners with solar+storage systems, however, were able to overcome the PSPS events by generating and storing all the energy they needed for daily use – without any disruption of power – until the PSPS period came to a close. This presentation will provide testimonials of customers in California’s fire zones who were able to overcome the PSPS events with solar+storage.Learning Objectives :
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Aric Saunders |
| Owning and Living in a High-Performance Home | When it comes to understanding the components and benefits of high-performance homes, learning through experience is one of the best approaches. In this “Better Homes, Better Future” podcast, hear from Greg Davenport, a performance construction manager at Mitsubishi Electric Trane HVAC US, and Andy Barrett, a high-performance builder representing Toolbox NW, who also happens to use one of his builds as a second home. The pair will join host Aaron Smith to talk about what it’s actually like to own and live in one of these homes.Learning objectives (4):1. Describe high-performance homes and their appeal.2. Understand what a high-performance home’s typical utility costs look like.3. Discuss why all-electric HVAC systems are the ideal solution for getting the most benefit from your high-performance home.4. Learn how high-performance building improves comfort within the home.Instructors: Greg Davenport and Andy Barrett |
Greg Davenport and Andy Barrett |
| Pathways to LEED Certification: Production Builder Streamlining & DOE Zero Energy Ready Home | USGBC has a LEED Interpretation that allows projects to leverage their DOE Zero Energy Ready Home label to earn points toward LEED v4 certification under LEED v4 BD+C: Homes. By earning these labels, projects can be awarded a minimum of 26.5 points in LEED v4 BD+C: Homes, as well as most prerequisites in the Energy and Atmosphere and Indoor Environmental Quality credit categories. Additional points can be earned by having a HERS Index of 56 or better. Projects must earn at least 40 points to meet the LEED certification at the Certified level.
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Carissa Sawyer |
| Pecha Kucha Presentation with Solar Decathlon Winning Teams | Experience awe inspiring designs for zero energy buildings with the Solar Decathlon 2021 Design Challenge students! | Solar Decathlon Winners |
| Performance Base Specifications and Scopes of Work Documents | OK, as a builder you have created a goal to achieve ENERGY STAR, Zero Energy Ready, Zero Energy, Passive House or whatever. Have you communicated your goals to your staff and trade partners? Have you determined who your critical trade partners are and exactly why they are critical? Performance base specifications and scopes of work documents are a great way to clarify this thought process and to ensure that clear communication has occurred.Learning Objectives :
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Robby Schwarz & Justin Wilson |
| Permanent Changes to Home-building Post Pandemic | This session brings together a panel that includes an architect, a builder, a developer, a finance person, and a marketer to explore what we “know” and what we think we know about the effects of the pandemic on the home-building eco-system. We will approach this from both the builder and the buyer’s perspective, but also the trades, designers and developers. This session is wide-ranging and designed to be interactive to help us all have a better grasp on what the future holds.Learning Objectives :
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Steve Byers, Nathan Kahre, & Suzanne Shelton |
| Planning for Results – Best Practices That You Can Apply to Your Business | Companies in the building industry are under increased pressure to drive sales growth and ROI, even with elevated costs for materials, labor, and the like. How can you methodically develop the right strategic, business, and / or marketing plans to meet these challenges, while ensuring you engage and align key stakeholders along the way? Learning Objectives: – Learn how to methodically analyze a business situation and translates those insights into actionable plans that will lock growth. – Improve your organization’s planning process in order to drive better alignment across functions and groups. – Walk away with planning techniques that you can immediately apply to your current situation. – Learn how to leverage multiple data sources and internal functional groups to develop the necessary inputs that are required to developing a robust plan. | David Bernardino |
| Plug In, Turn On & Cook Up: Electric Kitchens Have Arrived! | A myth-busting live cooking and tech tour with Electric Kitchens Super-Fan Chef Rachelle Boucher, co-founder of Kitchens to Life with our special guest, Karla Butterfield from SWA and Aaron Smith, CEO of EEBA. Confusion about all-electric building codes and cooking options got you turned off? Get plugged in to an empowering event with code-clarifying, myth-busting details that will turn you on to electric cooking for life with better cooking performance, safer, healthier homes and a sustainable planet.Instructors : Rachelle Boucher, Karla Butterfield, & Aaron Smith |
Rachelle Boucher, Karla Butterfield, & Aaron Smith |
| Protecting the First Side of the Home and Effective Foundation Vapor Barriers | This presentation will provide an in-depth look at the cause and effects of below-slab moisture and vapor concerns in homes and considerations for incorporating effective, durable protection. With a science-based, educational approach, the presentation will provide a deep dive into the natural movement of water vapor (as well as other contaminants like radon) into the first side of a home and the importance of taking the ground permanently out of play regardless of a home’s location or foundation type. Even more, the presentation will walk through the material innovations and evolving residential industry standards and guidelines that influence the selection and installation of below-slab vapor protection systems. There will be a particular focus on the role that effective vapor protection has on the long-term performance of any home, including energy efficiency, human health, and minimized ownership costs/impacts – and the value that offers to homebuilders and their customers. After all, there is often only one good chance to protect the first side of the home.
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Tom Marks and Justin Wilson |
| Radical, Affordable, Scalable: Climate Change and the Imperative of Affordable Housing | In Donatella Meadow’s seminal 1999 essay, Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System, she reminds us that there are “…places within a complex system (a corporation, an economy, a living body, a city, an ecosystem) where a small shift in one thing can produce big changes in everything.” Faced with the reality that buildings are responsible for over 40% of all greenhouse gas emissions in this country, and that the scientific community has been telling us for decades that Net-Zero-Energy, carbon-neutral, buildings need to be standard practice by 2030, should developers, architects and builders not be working over-time meet these needs? The dense, urban, multifamily work of Onion Flats, a Philadelphia-based development/design/build company, demonstrates the feasibility of making this “standard practice” a reality.Presenters
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Timothy McDonald |
| Rainscreens: A Builder’s Experience | Do you know how a properly installed rainscreen makes your building envelope more durable? In the first part of this webinar, Peter Barrett of Dorken Systems will look at how rainscreens work to add drainage and drying capacity to a typical residential wall. In the second part, Chris Donatelli of Donatelli Builders will discuss the real-life building and renovation of a home in Chicago. As original builder, Chris will tell his story of constructing the original home, issues he discovered, and his road to sustainable repair of the walls. You will hear his actual experience managing the moisture issues along with amazing details about when, where, and how damage occurred and was remediated.You will learn to:· Easily design rainscreen principles into your walls· Evaluate the long-term benefits of added drainage and drying· Understand the impact of moisture management issues· Apply appropriate remediation techniques | Peter Barrett and Chris Donatelli |
| Renewing the Pipeline: The role of gas utilities in driving toward a lower carbon energy future | Natural gas utilities are service companies that evolve to meet the changing needs of their customers. With the challenges of climate change- the chief existential threat to how we live and work- we need to pursue all smart energy solutions. Leveraging the infrastructure in place today to achieve tomorrow’s goal of low carbon energy is central to how the industry is seeing it’s future. From the vantage point of a mid-sized Northwest based utility, NW Natural, we will define and talk about the integration of renewable natural gas (RNG) and green hydrogen into our pipeline along with technological innovation and a continued commitment to energy efficiency to reduce the carbon associated with the product delivered.Learning Objectives
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Mary Moerlins |
| Reno on Rockridge Case Study | This 1924 Colonial home had fallen into severe disrepair before coming up for sale. As part of the muchneeded renovation, the new homeowners (two Steven Winter Associates, Inc. employees) wanted to eliminate onsite combustion and produce as much of their operating electricity as possible. Other goals included lower embodied energy materials and a healthy indoor environment. LEED v4.1 for Homes offered one platform to address energy, health, and materials. The home was gutted down to the foundation, framing, and floors before the year-long renovation. After the first 8 months of occupancy (July—February), the home produced 14% more energy than it consumed.Homeowners: Maureen Mahle and Steve KlockeModerator: Aaron Smith |
Aaron Smith |
| Residential Market Update: A Conversation with EEBA & Team Zero | Join us for a conversation on the new alliance between Team Zero and EEBA, and a discussion of the synergies between the two organizations. We will also cover the Gateway to Zero and Ann Edminster will provide an overview of the Team Zero fifth annual inventory of the zero-energy and zero-emissions home stock in the US and Canada, and how joining the inventory helps drive sustainable market transformation. | Aaron Smith, Frank Baker, & Ann Edminster |
| Resilient Homes Need to Be Built by Resilient People | The construction industry is on the top of a list that no one wants to be on—completed suicides. Our goal in this session is to go upstream and get real comfortable talking about mental health in the industry and use the speaker’s personal story to weave this narrative. We will discuss risk factors and warning signs for suicide prevention and look at ways to let your people know that you care.
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Dennis Gillan |
| Revolutionizing Clean Energy Design in Residential Buildings | Join sonnen and EEBA for a presentation on how new smart, energy management technology is revolutionizing residential design and enabling a cleaner, more sustainable energy future. In addition to enabling net zero, sustainable, and energy efficient design, using solar + sonnen intelligent batteries with the option to pair with home automation to mange how homes produce energy, store energy and use it to reduce energy costs and improve energy security. Gain insights on business models for new communities, like Jasper by Mandalay Homes and Soleil Lofts by the Wasatch Group, that use these technologies to create a blueprint for entire clean energy communities that are financially beneficial for homeowners, developers, and the local utility.Instructor: Geoff Ferrell |
Geoff Ferrell |
| Sales & Marketing of the Ultimate Z.E.N Home | The Ultimate Z.E.N. Home is designed to meet the challenges of healthy living, working and learning from home, carbon free living, net zero energy and battery energy storage. This session covers how the home responds to the COVID home buyer’s desire for safety and security while living in a state-of-the-art home. How has the homebuyer responded to these benefits and how was the design program enhanced in sales, marketing and interior design? Join host Rich Binsacca, Editor-in-Chief of ProBuilder, along with the sales and marketing team from Thrive Home Builders, and the interior designer on this project. | Rich Binsacca & panelists |
| Selecting Healthy Insulation and Air Sealants | Energy, climate, materials, and health: What is the connection? Why is it important?Insulation and air sealing are two cost-effective ways to increase the energy efficiency of a home. However, the chemicals that are found in some of these products or used during their production can negatively impact the health of the people who manufacture and install products, as well as those who ultimately live in these buildings. We need a better system of policies and regulations that are protective of human health, but for now, we need professionals equipped with the knowledge and skills to make informed decisions about the materials they use. Building professionals who specify and install materials have the opportunity to make significant impacts on health and the environment by choosing healthier materials. Join HBN Senior Researcher, Rebecca Stamm, and HomeFree Manager, Roberto Valle, to learn:● The connection between energy, climate, materials, and health● Why these things matter● How you can start selecting healthier insulation and air sealants in your projectsInstructors: Rebecca Stam, Roberto Valle Kinloch |
Rebecca Stam and Roberto Valle Kinloch |
| Selling High Performance Homes | Gord Cooke | |
| Selling the Value of Above-Code Programs | It isn’t crazy to say that common expectations people have of the place they call home are centered on peace of mind benefits such as safety, health, comfort, efficiency, and affordability. Those expectations in part, are why building codes and above-code programs exist. Builders and trade professionals strive to improve their products to meet buyer demands and expectations. They commit to programs that go beyond a base-line set of standards. As a home building professional, you understand the value and importance of building a home that’s designed to meet these sets of expectations. But how do you effectively communicate and sell those benefits to your potential audience? How do you set yourself apart in the market? How do you make purchasing your home the easiest and most confident choice for your buyers?Join us to dive further into these questions as we focus on selling the value of above-code programs.Learning Objectives :
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Jala Curtis & Rusty Buick |
| SIPA BEST Program – Basic SIP Design and Engineering | SIPschool founder Al Cobb introduces structural insulated panels (SIPs). Topics include the early and recent history of SIPs, the anatomy of a SIP, common applications of SIPs, and SIP manufacturing.Learning Objectives:
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| SIPA BEST Program – Common Objections for SIP Designs | SIPschool founder and longtime SIP distributor Al Cobb explores how to sell SIPs. Topics include how best to discuss price, and how to persuasively overcome various objections that prospective clients may have.Learning Objectives:
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| SIPA BEST Program – Integrating Mechanical Systems with SIPs | In this lesson, SIPschool founder Al Cobb explains on how to integrate mechanical systems into a SIPs project. Topics include working with mechanicals trades, HVAC analysis and how to control pressure conditions that can lead to backdrafting of combustion appliances.Learning Objectives:
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Al Cobb |
| SIPA BEST Program – Introduction to SIPs | SIPschool founder Al Cobb introduces structural insulated panels (SIPs). Topics include the early and recent history of SIPs, the anatomy of a SIP, common applications of SIPs, and SIP manufacturing.Learning Objectives:
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Al Cobb |
| SIPA BEST Program – SIP Building Science | Building science concerns the flow of energy and moisture through buildings. In this lesson, SIPschool founder Al Cobb examines the building science behind SIPs.Learning Objectives:
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Al Cobb |
| SIPA BEST Program – SIP Finish Materials and Detailing | This training video outlines how to apply finish materials and properly detail SIP projects. Topics include siding choices and fastening procedures, window and door installation and back-ventilation techniques.Learning Objectives:
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Al Cobb |
| SIPA BEST Program – SIP Layout and Panel Installation | This lesson provides an overview on how to install SIPs. Topics include tools and techniques, site management and how to tailor the SIP installation to each specific project.Learning Objectives:
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Al Cobb |
| SIPA BEST Program – SIP Layout Drawings | This lesson gives an overview of panel layout drawings. Topics include the purposes of panel layout drawings and the review process.Learning Objectives:
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Al Cobb |
| SIPA BEST Program – SIP Order Process | SIPschool founder Al Cobb presents how to thoroughly and efficiently plan a SIP project, including topics such as estimating and quoting costs and services, finding panel suppliers and the writing specifications for panels to suit the needs of a project.Learning Objectives:
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Al Cobb |
| SIPA BEST Program – SIP Site Planning and Coordination | In this lesson, SIPschool founder Al Cobb discusses key information for planning and coordinating a SIP jobsite. Topics include best practices, safety, panel delivery and material handling equipment.Learning Objectives:
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Al Cobb |
| SIPs in Commercial Design | This course will discuss the benefits of commercial building design with structural insulated panels (SIPs), including energy savings, waste minimization and other sustainable contributions. The designer will gain a better understanding of how to properly utilize SIPs.Learning Objectives:
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Al Cobb |
| SIPs in Residential Design | This course will explain the benefits of designing with structural insulated panels (SIPs) for residential applications. The designer will gain a better understanding of application, assembly and detailing in order to properly utilize SIPs for optimum energy efficiency and durability. Through case studies and design strategies, the designer will walk away from the course with a better understanding of designing for current industry standards with SIPs.Learning Objectives:
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Al Cobb |
| Site Supervisor Designation: Modules | Theresa Gilbride & Rick Wertheim | |
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| Smart Home Energy Management | Learn how Samsung can help Net Zero homebuilders achieve their sustainability goals with energy efficient products, home automation, and new energy management features all controlled by one simple app, SmartThings.Learning Objectives:1. Learn how Samsung Appliances comply with the EPA’s Energy Star specification.2. Understand how Samsung’s Connected Living products can impact the health and wellness of homebuyers.3. Learn how whole home energy management is possible with SmartThings.4. Discover how utilities will utilize SmartThings to create new programs.Instructor: Steve Herbert |
Steve Herbert |
| Smart Home Energy Management for Ductless Mini-Splits | Learn how Samsung HVAC helps Net Zero homebuilders achieve their sustainability goals with mini-split ductless systems that are not only energy efficient, but also leverage the upcoming SmartThings Energy Control service to optimize homeowner savings through insights, automation, and utility connectivity.Learning objectives:1. Learn how Samsung HVAC complies with the EPA’s ENERGY STAR specification.2. Understand how Samsung HVAC can help you achieve sustainability goals.3. Discover how Samsung’s HVAC can impact the health and wellness of homebuyers.4. Learn how whole home energy management is possible with SmartThings.Instructors:Yiwen Xu and Jose De La Portilla |
Yiwen Xu and Jose De La Portilla |
| Smart Plumbing and Controls Enable Zero Energy Homes- Saving the World One House at a Time™ | Builders and policy makers are increasingly looking to design and promote zero energy buildings. Defined as “an energy-efficient building where, on a source energy basis, the actual annual delivered energy is less than or equal to the on-site renewable exported energy.” It is a fact that it takes more energy to heat water than any liquid or solid in the world and yet 99 percent of the population in North America heat water several times daily. It has been established that “STRUCTURED PLUMBING,” a concept of designing hot water distribution plumbing that will allow any fixture in the home or building to have hot water within 5 seconds at the request of the user. The design of electronic D’MAND KONTROLS™ into Structured Plumbing allows the distribution of hot water to circulate only when there is a demand by the user. This session will provide different examples of hot water distribution including Home Automation technologies and applications that can help support zero energy home objectives. We will be showing examples of designs and tests that have been completed over the last 15 years proving the savings of water/energy in residential and commercial buildings. We will be interviewing two Sustainable builders who have installed D’MAND KONTROLS for several years and get their view point on this and other factors to consider in building Zero Energy Homes.LEARNING OBJECTIVES—1) Learn what the average savings of water, energy and reducing the Carbon Footprint are using D’MAND KONTROLS AND STRUCTURED PLUMBING® Designs, and how it impacts our natural resources.2) Understand whether there are limitations for commercial and residential to apply this technology in new or existing buildings.3) Recognize the advantages and ROI of this technology.4) Demonstrate that this technology is readily available to train and install by contractors.5) Learn that this technology is acceptable to the home owner and user friendly. Instructors: Jay Epstein, Darrel McMaster, Larry Acker |
Jay Epstein, Darrel McMaster, Larry Acker |
| Smart, Connected Indoor Air Quality with Broan Overture | Homeowners are more concerned than ever about their indoor air quality. Quality builders are looking for ways to meet this growing demand for healthier homes with smart ventilation systems that can not only exhaust bad air and bring in fresh air but do it efficiently. Broan’s exciting new state-of-the-art, connected ventilation system monitors the quality of the air in selected rooms of the home and communicates with the appropriate ventilation device(s) to operate and restore a clean, healthy environment. Learn more about the innovative Broan Overture smart ventilation system in this session. | Patrick Nielsen & Jim Bohn |
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| Solar Decathlon Module 4 | HVAC (Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning) | Solar Decathlon |
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| Solar, Battery, Grid-interactive and Smart Home Tech | Energy conservation and healthy living environments are two of the top concerns for homebuilders today. In this presentation, you will learn how smart home systems can impact energy saving in new ways and optimize the quality of indoor air.
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Steve Herbert |
| Solving for the High-Performance Home Paradox | Software, specifically software services, has been disrupting industries since the 50’s. Marc Andreesen, the founder of Netscape, 10 years ago had a famous article in the WSJ titled “Why Software is Eating the World.” Today, that has proven to be true, we experience the phenomenon as online software services that we interact with every day. Sendal software services solve unhealthy living environments by disrupting the current hardware centric approach to high-performance homes. We will be discussing how software services improve the general well-being of the home’s occupants and simultaneously reduce the emissions footprint of housing. Sendal services deliver meaningful results; breathable air, energy & water conservation enabling general wellness and well-being of the occupants. We will be discussing how software services recruit both builder built-in tech and consumer tech to deliver highly functional high-performance homes that consumers will be willing to pay for.4 Learning Objectives:1. Define and gain agreement around how today’s static approaches to the high-performance home lead to unhealthy homes while sub optimizing energy and water conservation.2. Explore how software is uniquely capable of addressing dynamic living environments in the delivery of healthy homes while reducing emissions.3. Discover how leveraging existing products and making them perform better with software services creates meaningful results for consumers.4. Why consumers care and are willing to pay for these services. | Jim Carroll |
| State of EEBA | Aaron Smith, CEO of EEBA is joined by Bill Rectanus and Dennis Webb to discuss the state of EEBA and the larger context of the high performance homebuilding industry.
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Aaron Smith, Bill Rectanus, and Dennis Webb |
| State of EEBA | Aaron Smith, EEBA President and CEO, discussed the State of EEBA with Board President Dennis Webb and Past President Bill Rectanus | Aaron Smith |
| Strategies from Top EEBA Builders on Managing Through Crisis | COVID-19 not only puts high performance builders up against marketing through a downturn, it also forces you to deal with the very real supply chain, worker availability and health-related shut-downs brought on by this particular crisis. Join Gene Myers of Thrive Home Builders, Tim O’Brien of Tim O’Brien Homes, and Dennis Webb of Fulton Homes as they discuss how they are managing their businesses during this challenging time. The webinar will be moderated by George Casey of the Housing Innovation Alliance.Instructors: Gene Myers, Tim O’Brien, Dennis Webb |
Gene Myers, Tim O’Brien, Dennis Webb |
| Streamlining Green Certification with the New 2020 NGBS Single-Family Certified Path | Home Innovation Research Labs’ NGBS Green Certification is the program of choice for many residential builders and developers for its affordability and flexibility. The recently-released 2020 NGBS version features a new compliance option for single-family homes that is designed to offer an even more streamlined experience without compromising on rigor or home performance. This path is ideal for high-volume single-family builders seeking green certification for multiple home designs and across multiple markets. Join this session to identify the key requirements of the new NGBS Single-Family Certified Path and learn about the NGBS Green certification process.Learning Objectives :
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Cindy Wasser & Carl Seville |
| Sustainable is Attainable: Building Affordable Zero Energy Ready Homes and Providing Missing Middle Housing Opportunities | This session will explore the challenges faced when building sustainable, affordable housing and providing Missing Middle Housing opportunities in existing neighborhoods. It will feature two case studies of affordable Zero Energy Ready Home developments in Western North Carolina. These include the Northstone mixed income community in Hickory and the Duke Street Cottages pocket neighborhood in Granite Falls. Three of the homes in Hickory were monitored by Advanced Energy for comfort and indoor air quality. A summary of the research findings will be shared during the presentation.
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Rob Howard |
| Take Control of Your Electricity Bills with Home Energy Storage | There are hundreds of technologies available on the market today that are designed to “green” your home. However, a new market is emerging that takes home energy management to the next level: energy storage. Outside of California, the term “home energy storage” may be unfamiliar: this market segment was nearly nonexistent in 2017. However, by the end of 2019, home energy storage comprised over one-third of the total energy storage market nationally. By 2021, it will become a billion-dollar domestic market. While green tech can improve the efficiency and sustainability of your home’s daily operations, no other technology allows you to take complete control over your energy usage and costs like energy storage technologies that allow you to store energy for use when you need it (thus avoiding spikes in electricity costs caused by daily variations in supply and demand). This presentation will walk the audience through the components of a fully integrated home energy storage, management and monitoring system, as well as its standard functions. Audience members will learn how they can utilize home battery technology not only to minimize electricity costs, but also how to protect against power outages, participate in incentive programs, and even connect a battery to home solar or other smart-home devices (smartphone included). | Aric Saunders |
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| The “Perfect Storm” is here. Protect yourself with the right building envelope. | The built environment has been stagnant in terms of innovation for years. Suddenly, there is a perfect storm brewing forcing change amongst our industry’s influencers. The trifecta of escalating material costs, skilled labor shortages, and increasing energy code requirements have combined at once to post a challenge that builders, architects, and engineers are scrambling to address. The good news is the AEC industry can combat this “perfect storm” by optimizing one key component of the building system – and that is the Building Envelope. More and more options exist to save time, money, and energy with turn-key envelope solutions. This presentation will address what elements matter most in the envelope, what solutions exist for envelopes to combat the “perfect storm” and discuss the advantages of offsite/prefabricated vs. site framed building envelope systems.
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Loren Groeschl |
| The Building Envelope is a Building System | Energy demand and comfort in high performance buildings relies on minimizing loads and maximizing system efficiency to meet the load. Building envelope performance, especially control of art leakage and water intrusion in addition to being critical to building durability, can have a dramatic effect on space conditioning and air distribution energy requirements, and sizing. To understand the interaction between the building envelope and mechanical systems, it is important to consider the building envelope as a complete system itself. Furthermore, to understand the building enclosure system, you must understand the continuity of the building envelope, especially at interfaces and connections. The continuity of the building envelope is critical to the durability and energy efficiency performance of the building and is included in building and energy codes. However, ensuring continuity can be challenging to achieve during construction. This presentation will discuss key considerations such as interface design and overall construction sequencing that must be considered to allow for the continuity of the building envelope. This presentation provides real-world installations that show the positive impact of good envelope designs, and the negative impact of design flaws on building performance.Learning Objectives :
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Theresa Weston |
| The Dripping Point: High Performance Homes + Energy Efficient HVAC Systems = Increased Risk of Moisture Problems | Tightly air-sealed, well-insulated buildings combined with energy efficient HVAC systems and increased ventilation rates are key components of a comfortable and healthy high performance home. But, unfortunately, no good deed goes unpunished. The Era of Actively Controlling Moisture has begun and traditional methods will no longer effectively meet the new moisture demands. We will discuss the building science perspective on the “new normal” and the challenges that architects and builders now must face in order to deal with these effectively.Learning Objectives:
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Nikki Krueger |
| The Future of the High Performance Homebuilding Industry | This is an open discussion on the state of the high performance homebuilding industry, and how it is projected to evolve going forward. Presenters will dive into new products, techniques, and strategies utilized by industry leaders and key players. Aaron Smith will analyze the concept of the “H.E.R.D. mentality” (Health, Electrification, Resilience and Decarbonization). This discussion focuses on the significance of EEBA’s community in the high performance homebuilding industry and how crucial this network is to strengthening sustainable construction strategies.
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Aaron Smith, Gord Cooke, and Mark LaLiberte |
| The House that SHE Built – providing scholarships for women in construction through a 2021 Parade Home | The Utah Chapter of the NAHB Professional Women in Building began work last year to design and build a home that will be showcased in the 2021 Utah Valley Parade of Homes. The goal for this home is to highlight and utilize women professionals, skilled tradeswomen, and woman-owned companies for all stages of the project. The proceeds from the sale of the home following the Parade will be divided between scholarships, women-run charities, and future home projects like The House That SHE Built. The home is a 3,200 sq ft 2-story home with an eclectic, farmhouse style. Additionally, the home also includes many high-performance details. In this session, we’ll share the story of this project and its impact on the local community and future generations of women in building.
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Jennie Tanner |
| The Marketers’ Toolkit – Best Practices to Develop Better Strategies and a More Relevant Brand | David Bernardino, Chief Client Officer at Ammunition, will walk you through best practices on (1) developing a clear and insights-driven marketing plan and (2) building your brand. The first half of the session will focus on tools and techniques that will help you generate actionable insights that can translate into brand-building strategies. The second half will dive into a simple framework that you can apply to build your brand – focusing on developing a clear understanding of your target audience, creating a crisp brand positioning, and bringing this to life across the marketing mix. You will leave this session with actionable tools that you can immediately apply to your brand.
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David Bernardino |
| The Medical Impact of Poor Indoor Air | The dialogue between building professionals and customers is changing. It is vital for those in the construction industry to understand what it means to have healthy indoor air and how that is shaping customer demands.Dr. John explains why great-looking buildings may not necessarily be healthy buildings and what we can do about it.Learning Objectives
• How to make the link between a great building and a healthy building
• Understand how new environmental and social business models are steering investors and the impact this will have on construction projects• The opportunity of going ‘beyond code’ and becoming an indoor air specialist
• Know the importance of languages such as Indoor Air Quality (IAQ), IEQ, Building Related Illness (BRI), and Indoor Environmental Quality
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| The New Digital World of Marketing and Sales for High Performance Builders | While sales and marketing in the homebuilding industry has slowly been migrating to digital tools, the pandemic forced an immediate evolution. Learn how high performance builders have adapted and flourished in this new reality.
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Stephen Myers, Scott Cocking, Jesse Younger, Ryan Hillgartner, and Susan Elovitz |
| The New Normal – Delivering Healthy Air in Every Home We Build | The Coronavirus pandemic has created a new world; a new way of living, a new way of doing business, and a new way we think about health, safety and the air we breathe. In our industry, high performance builders and IAQ product manufacturers are at the forefront of making the right critical recommendations to the public to best ensure healthy air in every home. The good news is the products needed to Deliver Healthy Homes already exist and are easily applied. This presentation will walk you through the product categories and applications that exist to create healthier environments in both ordinary times and adjust them during unique situations like we see today.Instructor: John Bloemer |
John Bloemer |
| The Real Bang for the Buck in Home Retrofits – Huge Adders from Non-Energy Impacts | Households value comfort and other non-energy impacts very highly – the data proves it and we can use it! In fact, more than 20 years of increasingly in-depth research shows that the dollar value that households attribute to the non-energy impacts (NEIs) from Home Retrofits has higher value to them than the energy savings. Not only is this OK, it is a great opportunity for home retrofitters and programs. Many of the NEIs are a lot easier to market and are more attractive than energy savings. Varying which of the NEIs that are put out front during marketing can attract the next and next and next participants. And the mounds of data can help make the case for much stronger ROI and payback than using only energy savings to influence decisions.Learning Objectives:
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Dr. Lisa Skumatz |
| The Rise & Decline of the Green Building Movement – What’s Real Now? | Why is today’s technology-based “LEED” Green Building program a far cry from the original, and arguably deeper, ideals and aspirations of the “Green” movement? What’s next? Now the green building movement has been codified into a checklist approach to integrating various “green” building products and technologies into our homes and buildings. Terms are being bantered about – like “IAQ” and “Net Zero” homes and buildings. What does it “boil down” to? Can it be “baked into” the design of the structure, or does it necessitate a technology approach? Isn’t what we’re trying to achieve is to make our buildings, homes and communities simply perform better?By taking a “street-wise” common-sense approach to high performance design strategies and comparing them to the expensive and maintenance intensive “green gizmos” approach being promoted by most, I will present to and help the participant critically determine what works – what is effective and long-lasting – and what may simply be “hype” of the latest “fad” product or method.Topics covered will include a brief historical perspective on the green building movement’s origins, and then focus on climate appropriate home design – starting with specific climate-relevant Project Programming and truly “Sustainable” neighborhood & building site planning; then address resilience, health and comfort – by Design (as opposed to utilizing expensive products & “gizmos”). This will lead into high performance exterior building enclosures; cost-effective alternatives to improving Indoor Air Quality and health; better-thought-out Environmental Control Systems; how and why to employ simple & highly effective building-science strategies such as the new “shading umbrella” radiant-barrier roof system with a sealed attic – and other specific strategies.Learning Objectives :
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Peter Pfeiffer |
| The Sales Culture of Homebuilding | “Nothing happens until it’s sold.” – Ira A. Fulton, founder and Chairman of Fulton Homes, Tempe, AZ. Every homebuilder must have a sales culture, where sales is the epicenter of the company and really mean it and where war is declared on anything that gets in the way of sales. We use age-old retail principles where the buyer comes first in every aspect of our business as the eleven most important words in retail are, “Find out what the buyer wants and give it to them.”It is one thing to have a strong sales culture where you have the best systems, the best sales force, and sell more than twice as many homes per community per month than the rest of the market, but in order for this to happen, you have to generate traffic to your Sales Office and model complex.Every builder should have Unique Selling Propositions where you have items or concepts that you promote that sets you apart from other builders. Most of you have energy efficiency and healthy homes that you promote that do set you apart from the others. How do you tell the story of Energy Efficiency and Healthy homes? Learn tips from 6 time IAP Leader award, and 2 time IAP Leader of the Year award winner.
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Dennis Webb |
| Three’s A Crowd: Energy Efficiency, Humidity and Ventilation in Humid Climate Zones |
Fresh air is our friend, but excess humidity is not. It harms health and energy goals even if the best-built homes. Mechanical ventilation is needed to dilute stale indoor air that has a negative impact on human health, but it too often comes with the side effect of increased relative humidity in the home. In this webinar we will discuss solutions for managing humidity within the building envelope as both a result of ventilation and the living habits of the eventual occupants. High performance home design continues to challenge us on the balance of energy efficiency, moisture control and proper ventilation. Learn about a single solution that can help manage all three.
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Joseph Hillenmeyer |
| Tips for Installing a Weather Resistive Barrier | Samantha Kambo is a field development specialist at DuPont with a focus on Multifamily Construction, which involves answering inquiries related to the industry. Prior to this role, she worked in Sales for Commercial Construction. Keenan Watson is a field development specialist at DuPont. His primary focus is on the residential side, along with anything roofing related. Working as a field development specialist, Keenan handles every day inquiries that relate to DuPont weatherization products, along with presenting on proper installation and why building science is important.Instructors: Samantha Kambo and Keenan Watson |
Samantha Kambo, Keenan Watson |
| Triple-Pane Performance in a Double-Pane Frame – Thin Triple-Pane Windows Hold a Lot of Promise, but Do They Deliver? | Sales of the highest performing triple-pane windows make up only a small fraction (~3%) of total window sales in the United States with relatively stagnant market growth over the past 20 years. Manufacturers have been reluctant to invest in production line modifications to accommodate the thicker, heavier, triple-pane windows citing lack of demand. Meanwhile, builders and consumers have been reluctant to purchase and install these higher-performance windows; citing both the high cost of the units and the higher labor costs associated with installing these heavier, bulkier units. A new thinner, lighter version of the triple-pane window is now widely available and claims the same thermal properties as the thicker version. The thin-glass triple-pane insulated glass unit (IGU) allows for R-5 (U-0.20) performance using a combination of thin glass (0.7-1.6 mm) for the center layer, two low-e coatings, and krypton gas fill. The thin glass keeps IGU weight and width to a minimum, enabling the use of the same size frames as are used for double-pane windows, which facilitates mass-market and lower-cost production. This technology has the potential to revolutionize the high-performance window market and has appeal to both new home builders and remodelers who have been put off by the bulk, weight, and cost of traditional triple-pane windows. But do these thin-triple panes deliver on performance? This presentation will feature results from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s (PNNL) field performance testing of thin triples conducted in both an experimental Lab Home setting and in new and existing single-family, manufactured homes, and multi-family field test sites throughout the U.S. Results presented will include measurements of the effect thin triple-pane windows have on whole home HVAC energy usage, condensation potential, occupant comfort, and sound reduction. Field observations related to cost, delivery, and installation of thin triples will also be shared.
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Katie Allen Cort, Sam Rosenberg, Edward Louie |
| Understanding Senior Living and its Opportunities | The Covid-19 pandemic put into focus many areas of our lives that previously had not been seen as clearly. One of those areas is how the majority of seniors live, including the unfortunate gaps in providing healthy and safe living environments for what is often referred to as the “most vulnerable” part of population. With multiple studies showing the US population is graying, it is a good time to re-evaluate how we can improve the living environments of seniors. This presentation will define and differentiate the senior living options ranging from active adult communities to assisted living and skilled nursing facilities. This presentation will also survey technology, both currently available and on the horizon, which may greatly increase the performance of senior living.
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Theresa Weston |
| US – RISE Communicating Your Healthier Homes Advantage | RISE | |
| US – RISE Fundamentals of Sustainable Homes | RISE | |
| US – RISE Healthy Homes | RISE | |
| US – RISE Sustainable Real Estate Professional | With over 2 million visitors to its platform, Rise is bringing its valuable homeowner resources to the real estate classroom with online courses that will make real estate professionals as sharp as the homeowner when it comes to the sustainability of the home. Get factual, objective, and unbiased information on products, materials, build quality, and overall sustainable home improvement – and being able to offer that guidance to homeowners as a key differentiator. | RISE |
| Ventilation and Air Sealing’s Impact on Indoor Air Quality | Through the DOE Building America program, GTI, the University of Illinois, and MEEA are studying the impact that strategic air sealing and the introduction of supply and exhaust ventilation has on energy consumption and indoor air quality. Once a home is recruited to participate, a baseline of contaminant levels is collected for a three-week period. After the baseline is established, homes have air sealing done to their home. For control homes, contractors air seal as they typically would (most likely in the attic). For treatment homes, air sealing is performed, as applicable, at sump pumps, ground covers, large cracks and between the foundation and outside. Ducts are also sealed and air handler flow is adjusted. Contaminants are then measured for an additional three-week period. The specific contaminants that are measured throughout the course of the study are carbon dioxide, formaldehyde, radon and humidity. All of the participating homes also have supply and exhaust ventilation installed to measure the impact this has on contaminant levels, and the impact of different ventilation strategies will be described through the case study data. During this session, attendees will learn about preliminary data we are seeing as through the study.Learning Objectives :
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Jason LaFleur & Paul Francisco |
| Ventilation and Indoor Air Quality in New US Homes: Preliminary Observations from a Building America Field Study | Energy-efficient new homes that are built tight require appropriately sized bath and kitchen exhaust and whole house mechanical ventilation (WHMV) systems to enable good indoor air quality. ASHRAE Standard 62.2 specifies minimum airflow rates and requires verification, but there is a lack of data on installed system performance and operation and their relationship to indoor air quality in occupied homes. This session will present early findings from an ongoing Building America research study that has gathered data on mechanical ventilation systems, indoor air quality parameters, and house and household characteristics from 180+ occupied homes in CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, OR, and SC. The WHMV systems in many homes rated as compliant with the standard did not meet airflow requirements and many with adequate capacity were not operating as found. Complexity of system design, installation errors, and unaware occupants (mostly owners) appear to be the key factors. Indoor concentrations of air pollutants (particulate matter, formaldehyde, nitrogen dioxide, carbon dioxide, and radon) varied greatly among homes with and without WHMV. A subset of homes were sampled for one week each with/out WHMV running to isolate the effect of ventilation on IAQ.
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Rengie Chan, Eric Martin, Paul Francisco, Chrissi Antonopoulos |
| Voice of the Builder: DOE Zero Energy Ready Home Builders Share their Secrets for Cost-Effective High-Performance Homes | Zero Energy Ready Homes can save a bundle for their home owners and they don’t have to break the bank for home builders either. This presentation includes lessons learned from builders across the country who are building award-winning production, custom, affordable, and multi-family homes that achieve remarkably high performance levels, in some cases at little extra cost compared to code construction. Learn from these innovative builders how building to the requirements of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Zero Energy Ready Home Program is helping them build and sell homes that are zero energy ready, healthy, durable, and cost-effective to construct too.Moderators: Theresa L. Gilbride and Terrence Mosley |
Theresa L. Gilbride and Terrence Mosley |
| Water Heating in All-Electric Homes | Heat pumps for space heating are catching on. For water heating… not so much. This session will focus primarily on air-to-water heat pumps for domestic hot water. There are good technologies available, but they have limitations – especially in colder climates and in multifamily buildings. The session will review applications where heat pump water heaters worked great, where they were mediocre, and where they didn’t work at all. The session will examine when to consider heat pumps, what kind of heat pumps, and when to think about other options (perhaps solar or good resistance tanks).
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Robb Aldrich |
| Water Ratings – How Accurate Can They Be? | In March 2017, the City of Santa Fe enacted an innovative, performance-based water efficiency code requirement for all new single-family residences. After 3 years, they wanted to know if their code was having the desired effect: driving water use down. As the owner of the water utility, the city has access to water use data for not only pre-code, unrated homes, but current water use data for all homes. In the process of analyzing the water efficiency rating system, Santa Fe’s land use planners and sustainability team were prompted to use the data to learn more about water use patterns. Find out what the data has indicated about the effectiveness of the water efficiency ratings, the changes in water usage over the first 3 years in a new home, the accuracy of the water ratings’ water use projections, and the lessons learned about using a performance based water efficiency rating system.Learning Objectives:
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Laureen Blissard, Katherine Mortimer |
| Welcome to the Connected Home by Square D | In this webinar, Square D’s team will walk us through market trends including Smart Home and Distributed Energy Resources and how they are helping the construction industry reduce costs and help homebuyers be more efficient.Learning Objectives:
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Gerard Font |
| What are Asthma & Allergies | Asthma and Allergies impact a staggering 50% of US households. Many indoor triggers are causing medical challenges. Dr. John teaches us the triggers of asthma and allergies within the home and how to talk about them. We examine the lack of regulation in this area and the confusion this brings to homeowners. Finally, we look at how to mitigate against these common allergens and have better, more productive conversations with your customers on this topic.Learning Objectives
• The scale of the Asthma and Allergy challenge in the USA
• Learn what happens during an asthma attack
• Learn about the natural history of allergic diseases
• Understand why a ‘whole-house approach is needed to reduce the impact of asthma and allergies and how building with asthma and allergies in mind can vastly reduce the impact on sufferers
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Dr. John McKeon |
| What Is a High-Performance Home? | This special Team Zero episode explores the current and evolving definitions of high-performance homes, their components, and how they affect global populations. For this episode, w e are joined by Ken Johnson, Senior Manager of Performance Construction at Mitsubishi Electric Trane US and Rich Will iams, Vice President of Alliance Green Homes. Th e discussion tackles the growing topic of the role that Indoor Air Quality plays in the construction and maintenance of high-performance homes. Listeners will learn about the critical green certification programs related to energy efficiency , and how they can move towards creating a high-performance home. Instructors: Ken Johnson, Senior Manager of Performance Construction at MitsubishiElectric TraneUS Rich Will iams, Vice President of Alliance Green Homes Aaron Smith, CEO of EEBA and Board Treasurer of Team Zero |
Ken Johnson, Rich Williams, Aaron Smith |
| What is Good Housing Design and How to Consistently Deliver It | Recent studies show that user experience leaders compared to laggards realize 3X greater return to investors and 3X greater resilience during downturns. Housing will not be the exception to this trend. If the “house is a system” in building science, “housing is a system” in user experience. Housing professionals have to be prepared to optimize this total homebuyer experience. High-performance is not enough … not nearly enough. This webinar begins that process with the design experience based on lessons-learned from decades of residential architecture experience and work leading national high-performance home programs. The resulting design optimization framework includes five key strategies and 50 best practices for applying them with substantial cost savings. Most importantly, this framework has been intensively researched, vetted, and refined over five years with hundreds of housing industry executives. The goal is not to dogmatically impose one path, but to engage high-performance housing professionals to understand the opportunities to begin their own critical journey to industry leading user exeriences at lower cost.Learning Objectives:1. Learn why user experience is the new imperative.2. Learn what are the five key housing user experiences.3. Learn 5 strategies with 50 best practices for consistently optimizing the housing design UX.4. Learn how to customize the housing design framework for your business.Sam Rashkin has earned an international reputation for his work engaging thousands of homebuilders as national director for ENERGY STAR Certified Home and Chief Architect with the U.S. DOE Building Technologies Office directing Zero Energy Ready Home. Over two-and-a-half million high-performance homes have now been certified under these programs. Through this decades of experience, research, and detailed observations, Sam has learned two things. One, high-performance is a critical must-have for success in the housing industry. Two, high-performance is not nearly enough to meet the new user experience imperative. Sam’s latest work and new book, “Housing 2.0 – A Disruption Survival Guide,” provides the guidance needed for high-performance builders to become industry leaders with a comprehensive framework for optimizing the housing user experience. | Sam Rashkin |
| What is the Builder Benchmark Group and How Does It Benefit Its Members? | EEBA’s Builder Benchmark Group started in March of 2020. Originally intended to have four “in-person” meetings annually, it quickly adapted to the pandemic with monthly virtual meetings. Facilitated by George Casey of Stockbridge Associates, BBG members go through financial benchmarking utilizing the DuPont Analysis and cover a wide range of topics that members have faced through these unprecedented times. Moderated by EEBA Board Member Juan Fernandez, panelists will discuss what has been most valuable to them and how the BBG might be good for you and your company.
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Joel Abney, Karen Kicinski, Mike Frey, Doug Tarry, and Juan Fernandez |
| What is the Future of Housing with Certainty and How Will it Affect High-Performance Homes? | Virtually every major industry has experienced, or is in the process of experiencing, disruption. Think retail, personal transportation, automobiles, computing, music, photography, media, and the list goes on and on. Housing in the U.S. has been able to sit on the sidelines with its first cost dominated business model and uniquely disaggregated industry…but not for much longer. That’s because there are five crises driving four innovations that will disrupt an industry totally resistant to change. A certainty by simply connecting the dots. Understanding these changes and preparing for them will be critical for all high-performance housing professionals. Will you be ready?Learning Objectives:1. Learn what five housing crises are converging on the housing industry imposing profound pain.2. Learn what four housing innovations are waiting in the wings with impressive pain relief.3. Learn what housing disruption is certain by simply connecting the dots.4. Learn how high-performance housing professionals can prepare for the disruption ahead. | Sam Rashkin |
| What Really Matters | In a post-COVID world we all want our homes to be sanctuaries that take care of us, more than ever before. Thus, benefits like healthy indoor air, control over energy costs, energy independence, and comfort are reining supreme. Luckily, these are benefits that have always been in the wheelhouse of high performance builders. But what matters most? How should you communicate about it before, during and after the sale? Suzanne Shelton, EEBA board member and CEO of Shelton Group, the nation’s leading marketing communications firm entirely focused on sustainability, will share her firm’s latest findings and recommendations, pulling from their ongoing Pulse studies, as well as surveys conducted for members of the EEBA Builder Benchmark groups and digital marketing work performed for high performance builders.Learning Objective s:
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Suzanne Shelton |
| What’s New with Indoor airPLUS Version 2: What Builders and Verifiers Need to Know | In recent turbulent times, people have been sequestered in their homes with a heightened awareness of health, safety, and abundant caution in numerous lifestyle choices. Unfortunately, because of the recent need to stay at home, many of us have also been subjected to increased exposure to sources of poor indoor air quality (IAQ). With the recent surge of consumer awareness about health, along with advancements in energy efficiency and building codes over the last two decades, our industry is recognizing that healthier indoor air is a significant attribute that requires thoughtful design and execution. Tighter homes can be healthier homes, if building science fundamentals are addressed—from material selection, to radon resistance, to ventilation, to filtration. The EPA’s Indoor airPLUS Program makes it possible for builders and trades to deliver healthier indoor air at a time when clients are actively looking for it. With a decade of positive growth, Indoor airPLUS is embarking on Version 2 of the program, pushing the envelope to improve IAQ for occupants with cost-effective design approaches. EPA’s design of Indoor airPLUS Version 2 intends to include specifications for both the new construction market and for existing homes, while further addressing considerations in the growing multifamily market. Technical updates will also be proposed for whole dwelling mechanical ventilation, filtration, humidity control, combustion pollutant control, and quality assurance measures in verification. This session will introduce the proposed V2 updates to the program and their potential impact on builders and verifiers. Attendees and stakeholders will have a chance to preview these important changes and learn how to provide valuable feedback to EPA as the program continues to evolve to support both the building industry and homebuyers.Learning Objectives:
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Nick Hurst & Paul Raymer |
| What’s Next for High Performance Homes? | This panel will introduce the EEBA / ProBuilder Ultimate ZEN All Electric Home and discuss its key features, the hurdles encountered, and key points of buyer acceptance. This will lead into a discussion on what is next in high performance building, ways to get there, and an example of one unique builder and energy rater partnership designed to take on the question of “What’s next and how do we get there?”
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Bill Rectanus, Steve Byers, Seth Hart, Sandy Stegall, and David Kendall |
| Where Are We Headed with Home Electrification? | Many countries, including the US, are seeking ways to decrease current carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to respond to the concerns about global warming. Electrification of homes is a key strategy in transitioning to renewable energy sources and reducing CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels. LBNL recently completed a study that surveyed the deep retrofits of more than 1,500 homes across the US. The findings identify emerging trends in deep energy retrofit projects and we outline where changes are occurring most rapidly, such as electrification, decarbonization, advancing heat pump technologies, smart controls, and new program designs. While this study focused on renovation of existing homes, many of the key technical issues, barriers and solutions together with market transformation needs also apply in new construction.
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Brennan Less, Iain Walker, and Nuria Casquero-Modrego |
| Whole House Mechanical Ventilation Design and Installation as Though Health Matters | This presentation will cover problems and solutions for residential whole-house mechanical ventilation systems (WHMV). Research has shown that homes intended to have WHMV are often under-ventilated. There will be a focus on design, measurement and verification.Learning Objectives:- Learn why most homes with mechanical ventilation systems are likely under-ventilated.- Recognize several poor design features that interfere with adequate mechanical ventilation delivery and verification.- Discover three potential locations where measurement and verification of mechanical ventilation airflow rates can be taken.- Recognize the limitations of measuring mechanical ventilation air flow rates. Instructor: Chuck Withers |
Chuck Withers |
| Whole House Mechanical Ventilation Options | This one-hour webinar explains requirements for mechanical ventilation for single-family homes and options for code compliance. The class will also explore best practice options by climate zone and will discuss common ventilation installation mistakes.Learning Objectives:- Identify the code requirements for ventilation- Describe the 4 primary methods for whole house mechanical ventilation- Compare options and identify best practice based on climate zone- Recognize and avoid common design and installation mistakesInstructor : Matt Evans |
Matt Evans |
| Workforce Development and the Importance of Recruiting a Diverse Workforce | Corporate America is at a crossroads, says McKinsey & Company in its Women in the Workplace 2020 study. The choices companies make today will have consequences on gender equality for decades. And when you think of an industry dominated by men, construction might be among the first to come to mind. After all, of the people working in construction, women comprise only about 11 percent. Even smaller is the number of women on the front lines of a job site—only one for every 100 employees in the field, according to the Women in Construction: The State of the Industry in 2021 by BigRentz.
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Lakisha Ann Woods |
| Zer0 Place – Making Net Zero Energy Mainstream | Zer0 Place is a net-zero, mixed-use development with 46 residential units, including affordable and accessible units, as well as retail space. Designed to provide a community of “zero energy living,” this NY State Building of Excellence award winner is intended to meet LEED, DOE Zero Energy Ready Home, EPA Indoor airPlus, and Energy Star requirements and will deliver zero energy bills for residents. Speakers will present this building’s features, such as super-insulated and air-tight construction, 246 kW PV array, EV charging, LED lighting, innovative high-efficiency ground-source integrated HVAC and DHW system, detailed indoor air quality measures, and advanced smart controls. In addition, this interactive session will include an audience opportunity to guide what data the project will collect over the first year of monitoring. Come hear about this cutting-edge model for an active transport friendly, mixed-use, zero-energy building from a multi-time Housing Innovation Award winner and grand winner.Learning Objectives:Attendees will be able to describe the optimized approach to efficiency, renewable energy, and smart controls used in the Zer0 Place projectAttendees will be able to identify the link between specific efficiency construction practices and resiliencyAttendees will be able too recognize the strategies used in Zer0 Place that can achieve a mainstream approach to zero energy mixed used communities.Attendees will propose, during the session, a set of data collection objectives for the first year of monitoring.Instructors : Anthony Aebi & David SheplerCEU’s : 1 AIA, 1 BPI, 1 NAHB, 1 NARI, 1 RESNET, and 1 GENERAL**A maximum of 6 NAHB credits can be earned for entire Summit |
Anthony Aebi & David Shepler |
| Zer0 Place Part II – Monitoring and Operational Achievements | Zer0 Place is a net zero, mixed-use development with 46 residential units, including affordable and accessible units, as well as retail space. Designed to provide a community of “zero energy living,” this NY State Building of Excellence award winner is intended to meet LEED, DOE Zero Energy Ready Home, EPA Indoor airPLUS, and Energy Star requirements and will deliver zero energy bills for residents. A follow-up to last year’s talk on the buildings features and marketing approach, this session will discuss completion of the project and actual monitored data results of the project. At EEBA last year, the audience was asked to give feedback on what datapoints they would like to see monitored. The Zer0 Place team will present these and other results in the session.
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David Shepler and Anthony Aebi |
| Zero Energy Homes | Zero energy homes provide many benefits including cost savings, energy resiliency, and sustainable operation. But zero energy means different things to different people and there are many ways this is interpreted across the country. Site energy versus source energy, utility cost versus emissions, designed versus verified. This session will review what zero energy or zero net energy homes are and how they are designed and used at a high level. The motivation for building to a zero energy design standard will be discussed and the challenges to achieving this on a broad scale. California has a long history with energy code and policy. Hear about its experience, success, and challenges and how California is approaching zero net energy.Instructor: Alea German |
Alea German |
| Zero Energy Ready on a Production Scale | Many builders are attracted to the idea of building zero energy homes. However, there is an unspoken presumption that these homes really only pencil out for custom-home money-is-no-object clients or possibly, as heavily subsidized affordable home demonstration projects. Are zero energy homes really possible for the production home builder? And, can you make any profit building them? In 2020 and 2021, Kevin Brozyna, Vice President of Operations for Production Builder Insight Homes of Bridgeville, Delaware, oversaw construction of more homes certified through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Zero Energy Ready Home Program than any other builder in the country. In this presentation, Kevin shares how, despite a year marked by skyrocketing materials costs and supply chain and labor shortages, this successful production builder has managed to turn a profit while sticking to their company’s high zero energy performance and quality goals. Kevin will share the cost-saving methods, marketing techniques, and production challenges and solutions he’s learned along the way that could benefit production home builders across the country. Kevin is joined by Terrence Mosley of DOE and Terri Gilbride of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, who will provide an overview of the DOE Zero Energy Ready Home program and share construction best practices from DOE Zero Energy Ready Home Housing Innovation Award winners in every construction category from production to custom for buyer, custom spec, multifamily, affordable, and attached.
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Kevin Brozyna, Theresa Gilbride, and Terrence Mosley |