Decarbonization
Electrifying the Ocean Pavilion: Connected Systems Help Showcase Our Connected Waters
September 24, 2026
How do you electrify a waterfront aquarium while maintaining precise environmental conditions for marine life? This session tells the story of the Ocean Pavilion, from early goals through implementation, highlighting how heat pump technology enabled a low-carbon solution. The presentation connects technical design with climate and operational outcomes. What you will learn Audience Policy makers,
Performance Commissioning: Delivering High-Performance Buildings and Enabling Electrification
September 11, 2026
Commissioning (Cx) is one of the most impactful actions you can take to ensure your building performs as intended — both today and into the future. Performance commissioning is often the missing step in both new construction and low-carbon retrofit projects and is a leading reason buildings fail to meet energy targets, systems do not
Selling Energy Projects with Pro Forma Thinking
September 11, 2026
Energy projects don’t fail in engineering – they fail in the boardroom. If decarbonization is such a no-brainer, why are we still selling it with simple payback? Capital exists and is available to push energy projects and decarbonization. We, as an industry, need to be better at how we ask for that capital. In this
Don’t Be Burned by Boiler Decarb Retrofits
April 1, 2025
Stet Sanborn serves as SmithGroup’s National Director of Climate IMPACT. He is both a licensed architect as well as an ASHRAE Fellow. He serves on ASHRAE’s Center of Excellence for Building Decarbonization Executive Committee, where he has led, co-authored, or overseen the development of more than six guides covering decarbonization. Stet was also a co-author
Iron Battery Technology Potential: Two Companies Describe Their Merits
December 13, 2024
From December 5, 2024, presented by Rachel Wilson, Manager of Strategy and Market Development, Form Energy; and Paul Notti, Director of Sales, ESS, Inc. __________________________________________________________________________ As utilities like Seattle City Light look toward years of projected load growth and more renewable resources enter the grid, the use of batteries will be an important factor to
Powering Your Building: The Role of Electrification in Optimizing Building Operations
October 17, 2024
Electrification/decarbonization initiatives and policies are increasingly emerging across the country, with broad impacts to building operation and maintenance professionals. This session will provide an overview of how these initiatives will influence building performance, safety, operation, and maintenance by discussing: Electrification technologies Implementation benefits Implementation barriers and solutions Logistical considerations Maintenance of key assets and systems
Net Zero with Mike Dieterich
October 10, 2024
The presentation will cover net zero in three phases. Phase 1: Zero Energy Design, for buildings with a bit of zero carbon; Phase 2: Corporate Zero Energy Planning and Roadmapping; Phase 3: Zero Energy and Carbon Applications in Districts like schools or municipalities and the integration of planning. Each phase will be followed by a
