• Is Boston the New Memphis? Energy Modeling for an Uncertain Future with Ching-Wen Hsiao & Paul Eddowes
    Sep 26 2024

    The transcript for this episode can be found here

    ACEEE

    Paper published as a part of ACEEE Summer Study 2024: Investigating the Impacts of Climate Change on an Affordable Multifamily Building in Boston, Massachusetts

    LEED

    Passive House

    Energy Star

    Enterprise Green Communities

    Mass Save

    Benchmarking: Measuring and tracking energy use in buildings to better understand energy performance compared to similar buildings

    Building envelope: All building components separating indoors from outdoors. (Exterior walls, foundations, roof, windows, doors, etc.)

    Heat island effect: When urban areas are hotter than the surrounding areas because they absorb and retain more heat and have fewer natural landscape features.

    IES

    Energy Plus

    EQuest

    Wufi Passive

    Fraunhofer

    HERS

    Passive House Institute (PHI)

    Phius

    LITCH: Low-income Housing Tax Credit

    Mass Save Passive House Construction Incentives

    MA Specialized Opt-In Code

    2050 Climate Goals in MA

    BERDO

    CMIP 6

    Energy burden: the percentage of total income that is paid towards energy bills.

    2003 power outage in the Northeast

    Texas 2021 power outage

    Electric resistance heating

    Episode 5 about DHW

    Smart grids

    Microgrids

    Phius Revive for existing buildings

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    55 mins
  • BONUS! Episode 6 Recap: Bonus Banter by BuildingWell
    Sep 12 2024

    WELL Certification

    LEED Health pathways

    Old Colony Case Study regarding building and occupant health

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    5 mins
  • The Connection Between Home & Health with Kristin Glossner
    Aug 29 2024
    The transcript for this episode can be found here.Notes from this episode:WELL Building StandardWELL APPhiusCertified Passive House ConsultantLEEDLEED APLEED Green RaterGreen GuardFloorScoreGreen Label PlusCradle to CradleFitwelResetEnterprise Green CommunitiesLiving Building Challenge99% Invisible podcast episode about Octagon HousesOld Colony case studyOld Colony Harvard School of Public Health studyReferences on Kristin's research:Cedeño-Laurent, J.G., Williams, A., MacNaughton, P., Cao, X., Eitland, E., Spengler, J. and Allen, J. (2018). Building Evidence for Health: Green Buildings, Current Science, and Future Challenges. Annual Review of Public Health, [online] 39(1), pp.291–308. https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-publhealth-031816-044420Dovjak, M. and Kukec, A. (2019). Creating Healthy and Sustainable Buildings: An Assessment of Health Risk FactorsFrumkin, H., Bratman, G.N., Breslow, S.J., Cochran, B., Kahn Jr, P.H., Lawler, J.J., Levin, P.S., Tandon, P.S., Varanasi, U., Wolf, K.L. and Wood, S.A. (2017). Nature Contact and Human Health: A Research Agenda. Environmental Health Perspectives, [online] 125(7). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28796634/Huang, L., Fantke, P., Ritscher, A. and Jolliet, O. (2022). Chemicals of concern in building materials: a high-throughput screening. Journal of Hazardous Materials, [online] 424. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304389421025425#:~:text=To%20assess%2 0the%20potential%20human%20exposures%20and%20risks,Isaacs%20et%20al.%2C%202014 %2C%20Jolliet%20et%20al.%2C%202021%29. [Accessed 1 Aug. 2022]Kim, D.H. and Bluyssen, P.M. (2020). Clustering of office workers from the OFFICAIR study in The Netherlands based on their self-reported health and comfort. Building and Environment, [online] 176, p.106860. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360132320302195National Center for Healthy Housing (2008). Background on the Importance of Healthy Housing for Older Adults Prepared by the National Center for Healthy Housing. [online] Available at: https://nchh.org/resource-library/fact-sheet_background-on-the-importance-of-healthy-housing-for-older-adults.pdf [Accessed 14 Aug. 2024].Petrovic, E.K., Vale, B. and Pedersen Zari, M. (2017). Materials for a Healthy, Ecological and Sustainable Built Environment: Principles for Evaluation. [online] Duxford, United Kingdom; Cambridge, Ma, United States: Woodhead Publishing Elsevier. Available at: https://www-sciencedirectcom.ezproxy3.lhl.uab.edu/book/9780081007075/materials-for-a-healthy-ecological-andsustainable-built-environment [Accessed 12 Mar. 2022].The New School: Healthy Materials Lab (n.d.). Why Healthy Materials. [online] Healthy Materials Lab. Available at: https://healthymaterialslab.org/why-healthy-materials [Accessed 3 Apr. 2022]U.S. Green Building Council (n.d.). Better Building Materials. [online] Available at: https://prod-hml.s3.amazonaws.com/news/Better_Building_Materials_Guide.pdf [Accessed 20 Apr. 2022].U.S. Green Building Council (n.d.). Better Building Materials. [online] Available at: https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2014- 08/documents/sick_building_factsheet.pdf [Accessed 29 Apr. 2022]Welch, L.S. (1991). Severity of health effects associated with building-related illness. Environmental Health Perspectives. [online] Available at: https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/ehp.919567 [Accessed 5 Mar. 2022]Valette, J., Schettler, T. and Wolfe, M. (2014). Asthamagens in Building Materials: The Problem & Solutions. [online] Healthy Building Network. Available at: https://healthybuilding.net/uploads/files/gb2014-asthmagen-paper.pdf [Accessed 6 May 2022]. Passive House/ PhiusEnergy StarLEEDEnterprise Green CommunitiesMass Savewww.newecology.org
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    42 mins
  • BONUS! Episode 5 Recap: Bonus Banter by BuildingWell
    Aug 1 2024

    Especially after 2020, I believe that people are now spending 62% of their lives indoors since 2020, when it used to be 50% and in hotter places it's up to 90%.[1]

    Different temperature needs for men and women large office buildings

    Viral TikTok mentioned in this episode


    [1] Allen, Joseph G., and John D. Macomber. Healthy buildings: How indoor spaces drive performance and productivity. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020.

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    4 mins
  • The Juiciness of Decarbonizing Domestic Hot Water with Neil Donnelly & Charlie Simek
    Jul 25 2024

    The transcript for this episode can be found here

    NESEA Presentation Link

    NESEA Presentation PDF

    Building Emissions Reduction and Disclosure Ordinance (BERDO) Boston

    Electrify Cambridge

    Building Energy Use Disclosure Ordinance (BEUDO) Cambridge

    LEAN

    Four step decarbonization process

    NESEA

    Loads & losses slides 9, 10 & 24

    ACEEE Hot water forum 2024

    ACEEE Hot Water Forum 2025: March 4-6, 2025 in Portland Oregon

    ASHRAE guidelines for everything

    Animated explanation of total hot water system efficiency

    25% of the multifamily building energy usage comes from DHW- A ‘juicy piece’ https://climate.cityofnewyork.us/reports/handbook-for-multifamily-buildings/ page 18

    Cost, carbon, energy of 10 buildings slide 5

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    56 mins
  • BONUS! Episode 4 Recap: Bonus Banter by BuildingWell
    Jun 27 2024
    Join hosts Michelle Moran and Alina Michelewicz for Bonus Banter by BuildingWell; a quick post-episode discussion and recap of Episode 4. Why is it important to decarbonize existing buildings? What tools do owners need to make the most significant environmental and impact? What drivers incentivize owners to decarbonize?Passive House/ Phius Energy Star LEED Enterprise Green Communities Mass Save www.newecology.org
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    4 mins
  • The Role of Existing Buildings in a Green World (or Functional Medicine for Buildings) with Marty Josten and Pat Coleman
    Jun 27 2024

    The transcript for this episode can be found here

    Decarbonization

    Zero over time

    Energize Delaware

    LEAN Multifamily

    Electrify Cambridge

    Climate Smart Communities

    Philadelphia Housing Authority

    Elevate Energy

    Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)

    Resilience

    Benchmarking

    Massachusetts Clean Energy Center

    BERDO

    “The unregulated stock is about 80% of affordable housing….”

    Home repair programs in Pennsylvania

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    57 mins
  • What Makes a Building Green? With Joshua Galloway and L.J. Eldredge
    May 30 2024

    The transcript for this episode can be found here.

    Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF)

    National Housing Trust (NHT)

    Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)

    “38% of energy use in 2022 was the built environment"**

    Mass Save Passive House incentives

    IRA Community Change Grants

    Net Zero Energy

    Net Zero Water

    Climate Justice Communities

    IRA Bootcamp

    Elevate

    Low Income Housing Tax Credits

    Massachusetts Building Energy Code

    **updated source, value change from 38% in 2022 to 36.9% for 2023

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    56 mins