Workshops

Tuesday, March 7, 9:30AM-12:30PM

Presenter:

Vaibhav Potnis, Green Building Services

Workshop Description:

The design of high-performance buildings requires an extra level of effort on the part of the design team. To meet all the criteria for such buildings, projects call for advanced methods and tools for analysis and virtual prototyping before design decisions are made.

This workshop gives an overview of the different tools available to the design team, how they support the team’s efforts to meet set criteria (especially related to the LEED® rating system) and gives examples of some applications where these methods and technologies have been successfully applied. The session will focus on: tools for whole building energy analysis for LEED energy and atmosphere category credits; computational fluid dynamics (CFD) for thermal comfort and ventilation effectiveness credits; and daylight analysis.

Tuesday, March 7, 9:30AM-12:30PM

Presenters:

Joel Gordes, Environmental Energy Solutions (EES)

Drew A. Gillett, PE, Solar Engineers

Henry K. Vandermark, Solar Wave Energy, Inc.

Workshop Description:

This session will cover the three major areas where most common mistakes are made in the fundamentals of solar design and implementation.  The presenters have a total of 90 years’ experience and will cover the fine points of passive solar buildings, solar domestic hot water and mechanical/electrical systems interfaces --- information not commonly taught in architectural or design schools. Learn from those who have already made the mistakes.

Tuesday, March 7, 9:30AM-12:30PM

Presenters:

Robert H. Murray, LEED AP, GreenHomes Northeast 

David Johnston, What’s Working, Inc. (and Core Team Lead, GreenHomes Northeast)

Workshop Description:

GHNE is a collaborative program whose mission is to transform the Greater Boston and later the Northeastern residential marketplace so that healthy, energy and resource-efficient homes become common practice. 

A set of GHNE green building standards that can be tailored to specific needs are now available.  This interactive workshop guides a wide spectrum of potential users in understanding the standards, selecting the relevant subset, and applying them in their particular domain.

Tuesday, March 7, 9:30AM-12:30PM

Presenter:

TBA

Workshop Description:

Geared to developers, consultants, and others working in the wind energy field, this workshop provides an overview of all development aspects, including project siting, evaluation, permitting, and power/REC sales. Topics of particular concern to the industry in the Northeast - including public acceptance, land agreements, airspace impacts, turbine procurement, and interconnection- will be discussed.  The workshop is organized by MTC and presented by experts in the field.

Tuesday, March 7, 9:30AM-12:30PM

Presenter:

Dr. Wolfgang Feist, Passivhaus Institut

Workshop Description:

This workshop will explore the cutting- edge housing design currently being done in Europe. Dr Wolfgang Feist, Director of the Passivhaus Institut in Germany, will examine European Passive Housedevelopments and the experience gained so far in zero and low energy housing projects. The presentation will cover principles of insulation, air tightness, window and passive solar, heatrecovery, heating with fresh air, combined systems, methods and researchresults on energy balances and simulation, building experienceexamples. Dr. Feist will also discuss the results from monitoring 300 dwellings (in severalmonitoring programs) with measured consumptions in the rangeof 10%, compared to the European average.