NYS Green Building Conference
Agenda

February 29 & March 1, 2024

Marriott Syracuse, Downtown, Syracuse, NY (no virtual option)

^*Please note the following agenda is tentative and presentations and times may shift

Thursday | February 29, 2024

Time	Activity	Location
8:00 - 9:30 am	Check-in Continental Breakfast & Sponsor & Exhibitor Interactions	Finger Lakes, Ballroom Foyer
8:30 - 9:00 am	Welcome and Introduction Katherina B. Searing, Assistant Dean, ESF	Finger Lakes Ballroom
9:00 - 10:00 am	Opening Keynote Introduced by Kevin Stack, LEED Fellow, LEED Faculty, PHIUS, Building in Nature's Image Managing Indoor Air Quality to Support Occupant Health and Energy Conservation Dr. Stephanie Taylor, CEO Building4Health (Approved for 1.0 PDH)	Finger Lakes Ballroom
10:00 - 10:30 am	Sponsor & Exhibitor Interactions	Finger Lakes Ballroom Foyer

Thursday

Concurrent Session I

Time	Track A: Decarbonization & Embodied Carbon	Track B: Building Science & High Performance Building	Track C: Green Materials and Health & Well Being
10:30 - 11:30 am	NetZero Carbon Roadmap for College Campus Joe DiSanto, Ramboll Mary Ellen Mallia, University at Albany (Approved for 1.0 AIA CES LU/HSW) (Approved for 1.0 PDH)	Simplifying Energy Efficiency: A Holistic Approach Nicole Schuster, Positive Trace (Approved for 1.0 AIA CES LU/HSW) (Approved for 1.0 PDH)	How WELL is pushing markets towards using healthier building materials Rodolfo Perez, Senior Director, Standard Development
11:35 am - 12:35 pm	The Catskill Project: The Future of Living Greg Hale, Regen Development Company Remy Moorhead, Buck Moorhead Architect (Approved for 1.0 AIA CES LU/HSW) (Approved for 1.0 PDH) (Approved for 1.0 CEC HSW)	Changes to expect in the 2024 IECC Gayathri Vijayakumar, Principal Mechanical Engineer, Steven Winter Associates, Inc.	St. Elizabeth's Shelter: A Beacon of Hope Rachel Nicely, Sustainable Building Partners Mike Babcock, Sustainable Building Partners (Approved for 1.0 AIA CES LU/HSW) (Approved for 1.0 PDH)
12:35 - 1:35 pm	Lunch & Networking Opportunities in Finger Lakes Ballroom & Foyer
1:35 - 2:00 pm	Sponsor & Exhibitor Interactions in Finger Lakes Ballroom Foyer

Concurrent Session II

Time	Track D: Decarbonization & Embodied Carbon	Track E: Sustainable Development Goals; Environmental, Social and Governance Criteria; Inner Development Goals	Track F: Building Science & High Performance Building
2:00 - 3:00 PM	Sustainable Design Strategies: A Comparison Between Two Dormitories Ben Larsen, Holmes King Kallquist Architects (Approved for 1.0 AIA CES LU/HSW) (Approved for 1.0 PDH	Activating the Inner Development Goals to Accelerate Systems Change Kevin Stack, Building in Nature's Image LLC Melissa O'Mara, The Leaders Co-Lab (Approved for 1.0 PDH)	Path to Net Zero is goes beyond Handing over the Keys Mike Babcock & Justin Aruck, Sustainable Building Partners Adam Ugliuzza, ABBA Board Member (Approved for 1.0 AIA CES LU/HSW) (Approved for 1.0 PDH)
3:05 - 4:05 PM	Building Tomorrow's Sustainable Campuses: The College of the Atlantic's Innovative Mass Timber Student Housing Design Timothy Lock, OPAL Architecture Annavitte Rand, Thornton Tomasetti, Dominick DeLucia, Taitem Engineering (Approved for 1.0 AIA CES LU/HSW) (Approved for 1.0 PDH)	Empowering Practitioners: Channeling Passion and Research into Transformative Architectural Solutions Shefali H. Sanghvi & Jen Switala, Dattner Architects	What We Wish Everyone Knew: Using Commissioning Discoveries to Make Designs Better Nate Goodell, Taitem Engineering (Approved for 1.0 PDH)
4:05 - 4:35 pm	Sponsor & Exhibitor Interactions in Finger Lakes Ballroom Foyer BEAM Training by Jacob Deva Racusin, Embodied Carbon Analyst, BEAM Trainer in Canadaigua Room
4:35 - 5:35 pm	Panel: Reducing embodied carbon in NYS Introduced by Ian Shapiro, Associate Director for Building Science and Community Programs, SyracuseCoE, and Professor of Practice, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Syracuse University Mariane Jang, Senior Policy Advisor, NYS OGS, panel lead Mikhail Haramati, State Industrial Decarbonization Lead, NRDC Kate Aglitsky, EMS and Sustainability Director, MTA Construction & Development Sadie Ross, Sustainability Policy Analyst, SUNY Julia Casagrande, Deputy Director for Clean Energy, NYC Mayor’s Office of Climate and Environmental Justice (MOCEJ)
5:35 - 7:35 pm	Reception, Sponsor & Exhibitor Interactions, & Student Poster Competition Finger Lakes Ballroom & Foyer & Cavalier Lounge
5:30 - 7:00 pm	Clean Energy Career Fair Persian Terrace

Friday

Time	Activity	Location
7:45 - 8:10 am	Check-in, Continental Breakfast, & Sponsor & Exhibitor Interactions
8:10 - 8:30 am	Welcome and Introduction
8:30 - 9:30 am	Keynote Presentation II Carbon Drawdown Now: Climate Justice and the Built Environment Jacob Deva Racusin, Embodied Carbon Analyst, BEAM Trainer
9:30 - 10:00 am	Sponsor & Exhibitor Interactions
10:00 - 11:05 am	Panel Presentation Performance at Scale: Achieving Sustainability Goals Across Building Portfolios Jeff Benavides, Director of Performance at Scale, USGBC (Moderator) Mike Nguyen, Director, Global Facilities Engineering, Micron Rebecca Filbey, Team Lead, New Construction, NYSERDA Christopher Trevisani, Vice President, Business Development, Housing Visions (Approved for 1.0 AIA CES LU/HSW)

Concurrent Session III

Time	Track G: Decarbonization & Embodied Carbon	Track H: State and Federal Legislation and Incentive Programs	Track I: Energy
11:05 am - 12:05 pm	Buy Clean Policy Implementation: Best Practices, Tools, and Case Studies Katie Poss, Building Transparency (Approved for 1.0 AIA CES LU/HSW) (Approved for 1.0 CEC HSW)	Community Decarbonization Fund: Building Community-Based Lending Capacity for Green Investment in Underserved Communities David Davenport, New York Green Bank	Electrification of Existing Building HVAC Systems Charles Bertuch, Bergmann Associates (Approved for 1.0 AIA CES LU/HSW) (Approved for 1.0 PDH)
12:10 - 1:10 pm	The Fab Four: Talkin’ ‘bout a Revolution in Embodied Carbon! Jodi Smits Anderson, 2bGreener, LLC Jim D'Aloisio, Klepper Hahn and Hyatt (Approved for 1.0 AIA CES LU/HSW) (Approved for 1.0 PDH)	New guidelines on reducing embodied carbon in construction materials for New York State projects Mariane Jang, NYS OGS Mikhail Haramati, NYSERDA (Approved for 1.0 AIA CES LU/HSW)	SUNY Clean Energy Master Plan Outcomes Michael Kingsley, Ramboll Matthew Brubaker, SUNY Cortland (Approved for 1.0 AIA CES LU/HSW) (Approved for 1.0 PDH)
1:10 - 2:30 pm	Lunch including Recognition of the Student Poster Winners & David C. Ashley Green Building Advocate of the Year Awardee Recognition

Time

Track G: Decarbonization & Embodied Carbon

Track H: State and Federal Legislation and Incentive Programs

Track I: Energy

11:05 am - 12:05 pm

Buy Clean Policy Implementation: Best Practices, Tools, and Case Studies
Katie Poss, Building Transparency

(Approved for 1.0 AIA CES LU/HSW)
(Approved for 1.0 CEC HSW)

Community Decarbonization Fund: Building Community-Based Lending Capacity for Green Investment in Underserved Communities

David Davenport, New York Green Bank

Electrification of Existing Building HVAC Systems

Charles Bertuch, Bergmann Associates

(Approved for 1.0 AIA CES LU/HSW)
(Approved for 1.0 PDH)

12:10 - 1:10 pm

The Fab Four: Talkin’ ‘bout a Revolution in Embodied Carbon!

Jodi Smits Anderson, 2bGreener, LLC
Jim D'Aloisio, Klepper Hahn and Hyatt

(Approved for 1.0 AIA CES LU/HSW)
(Approved for 1.0 PDH)

New guidelines on reducing embodied carbon in construction materials for New York State projects

Mariane Jang, NYS OGS
Mikhail Haramati, NYSERDA

(Approved for 1.0 AIA CES LU/HSW)

SUNY Clean Energy Master Plan Outcomes

Michael Kingsley, Ramboll
Matthew Brubaker, SUNY Cortland

(Approved for 1.0 AIA CES LU/HSW)
(Approved for 1.0 PDH)

1:10 - 2:30 pm

Lunch including
Recognition of the Student Poster Winners & David C. Ashley Green Building Advocate of the Year Awardee Recognition

Concurrent Session IV

Time	Track J: Energy	Track K: Passive House	Track L: Urban Design, Planning, & Community Development
2:30 - 3:30 pm	Team Work Makes the "Therm" Work: Scaling District Geothermal Through Coalitions Lauren Hildebrand & Jonathan Hernandez, Brightcore Energy; Audrey Schulman, HEET Jared Rodriquez, Emergent Concepts; Greg Koumoullos, Con Edison (Approved for 1.0 AIA CES LU/HSW)	Diverse Voices – Global Adaptation of Passive House: Culture, Climate and Challenges Christina Aßmann, Passive to Positive Ilka Cassidy, Holzraum System (Approved for 1.0 AIA CES LU/HSW) (Approved for 1.0 PDH)	Complete Streets - What We Can Learn from Europe and What They Can Learn from Us Erik Backus, Clarkson University Nicholas Leggett, Clarkson C3G (Approved for 1.0 AIA CES LU/HSW) (Approved for 1.0 CEC HSW)
3:35 - 4:35 pm	Grid-Interactive Efficient Building Demonstration at Solara Apartments Mark Bremer, National Grid US David Bruns, Solara EcoLuxury Apartments (Approved for 1.0 AIA CES LU/HSW) (Approved for 1.0 CEC HSW)	Engaging Passive House Verification Early: Get it done right the first time! Rylee Noonan, Joe Bodine, Kellie Murphy, Sustainable Comfort	Getting Wild with GBRSs - Designing for Biodiversity Nicolette Havrish, Nourish Architecture, DPC (Approved for 1.0 AIA CES LU) (Approved for 1.0 CEC HSW)
4:35 pm	Closing and Conference Giveaway in Finger Lakes Ballroom
4:45 pm	Conference Concludes