Designing the Clean Energy Future Now! Symposium - All Day
Date: Wednesday, October 11, 2023
Time: 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Venue: Hotel MTK Mount Kisco, 1 Pat Reilly Way, Mount Kisco, NY 10549
Price: Early bird price before October 3, 2023 – $35 AIA Members, $25 AIA Associate Members and students, $40 Non-members. Price increased by $20 on October 3.
AIA Credits: Attend the entire day and receive 6 AIA HSW, Phius, PDH Continuing Education Units, Attend morning (Sessions 1+2= 3 AIA credits) or afternoon (Sessions 3+4= 3 AIA credits) , pay one price for the day
Get educated, inspired, and connected to take your place in reducing the carbon footprint of the built environment at Designing the Clean Energy Future Now! an all-day, in-person symposium presented by the AIA Westchester Hudson Valley Committee on the Environment. Learn and be inspired by experts and thought leaders in sustainable design, practice, and financing in four education sessions, each followed by a round table discussion and Q and A. Network with other architects, design professionals and builders and public officials over a continental breakfast, beverages and a buffet lunch included in your registration. Connect with reps and manufacturers of products and materials.
AIA Westchester Hudson Valley Committee on the Environment (COTE)
Co-Chairs: Katie Alberte, AIA, Adina Banayan, Assoc. AIA
Active Committee Members: Alison Spear, AIA; James Hartford, AIA; Jan Degenshein, AIA; J.C. Calderon, AIA; Seth Wiley, AIA; Mark Warren, AIA
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Speaker bio’s click here
SESSION 1: Both / And - Cutting Carbon: Embodied AND Operational
Katrin Klingenberg, Executive Director and Co-Founder of (Passive House Institute US) PHIUS
“Critical interdependence of decarbonizing the grid and reducing energy use by buildings”
Stephen Tilly, AIA, Principal at Stephen Tilly, Architect
“Why we stopped doing Deep Energy Retrofits- The problem of decarbonizing existing buildings”
Kevin Shepard, Director of Research and Development of Belter Tech
“Low Embodied Carbon Concrete Trends”
SESSION 2: Heating, Cooling and Ventilation Approaches
Cramer Silkworth, Founder and Chief Engineer at Baukraft Engineering, PLLC
“Right Sized Mechanicals for Highly Efficient/ Passive Building Design”
John P Ciovacco President of Aztech Geothermal, CGD CGI
“Ground-Source Heat Pumps- Best Practices and Available Incentives”
Dononvan Gordon, Director of Clean Heating and Cooling, NYSERDA
“District Systems/Thermal Energy Networks”
SESSION 3: Theory into Practice
Joshusa Ginsberg, PhD., President of The Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies
“Living the Mission: Moving to a Net Carbon, Positive Future for the Cary Institute”
Professor Sulan Kolata, RA, AIA, Principal of KOL/MAC Architecture + Design, Board Member of Center for Sustainable Urbanism (CSU), Graduate Architecture and Urban Design (GAUD) Professor at Pratt Institute
“Nature-Based Shoreline Infrastructure Design: Architectural Opportunities in Environmental Concretes for an Adaptive System”
James Hartford AIA, LEED AP, CPHC, Principal of River Architects, PLLC
“Centering an Architectural Practice on Sustainable Design”
SESSION 4: Unlocking the Economics of Sustainability – Incentives and Support
Andrew Chintz CNTR, Financing Specialist for NYC Accelerator
Financing 101
James Geppner, Senior Project Manager on NYSERDA’s RetrofitNY Team
“NYSERDA Financing You Should Know About”
Susan Morth, CEO of Energy Improvement Corp.
“Discussion on Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) Financing”
Michele Pitale, MD, Managing Director at Counterpoint Sustainable Real Estate (SRE)
“Unlocking Capital Resilience: How C-PACE Revolutionizes Commercial Real Estate Finance”
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