NBI staff contribute papers, posters and discussion at ACEEE Summer Study

NBI staff presented at the 2022 ACEEE Summer Study at Asilomar in Pacific Grove. Contributions included several panels, a poster, and informal discussion groups. See below for details and links to the final papers. We were also honored that Alexi Miller, NBI Acting Director of Building Innovation, served as the Panel 3 leader planning programming for the event.

PANEL 3–Commercial Buildings: Technologies, Design, Operations, and Industry Trends
Cutting Carbon with Codes: Reducing the Worst Climate Impacts of Construction
Webly Bowles, Senior Project Manager, New Buildings Institute

PANEL 9–Energy Efficiency Policy: U.S. & Beyond
Carrots and Sticks in Hot Water: Role of Codes and Policy in Market Transformation
Amruta Khanolkar, Senior Project Manager, New Buildings Institute
Kimberly Cheslak, Director of Codes, New Buildings Institute
Smita Gupta, Director of Building Innovation, New Buildings Institute

The New Challenge for New Construction: The Intersection of Energy Codes and Building Performance Standards
Amy Boyce, Associate Director of Codes and Technical Strategy, Institute for Market Transformation
Kimberly Cheslak, Director of Codes, New Buildings Institute
Jim Edelson, Director of Policy, New Buildings Institute

PANEL 10–New Construction from Codes to Net Zero
Driving Decarbonization with Codes
Sean Denniston, Senior Project Manager, New Buildings Institute
Diana Burk, Project Manager, New Buildings Institute
Lauren Urbanek, Senior Energy Policy Advocate, Climate & Clean Energy Program, Natural Resources Defense Council
Alejandra Mejia-Cunningham, Building Decarbonization Advocate, Climate & Clean Energy ProgramNatural Resources Defense Council

PANEL 11–Resilient, Sustainable Communities
Energy vs. Carbon: Jurisdictions and Utilities Align Metrics
Rohini Srivastava, Senior Researcher, Buildings Program, American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy
Webly Bowles, Senior Project Manager, New Buildings Institute
Kimberly Cullinane, Supervisor, New Construction, Energy Efficiency, Eversource
Sarah Talkington, Austin Energy and NBI Senior Fellow

New Indices for Sustainability in the Face of Climate Change
David Goldstein, NRDC and NBI board member
Theresa Weston, The Holt Weston Consultancy, LLC

PANEL 12–Smart and Grid-Interactive Buildings
The New Grid Demands Flexibility: How Utility Programs Can Encourage Buildings to Play an Active Role in Grid Transformation Through Demand Flexibility
Alexi Miller, Acting Director of Building Innovation, New Buildings Institute
Obadiah Bartholomy, Manager of Distributed Energy Strategy, Sacramento Municipal Utility District
Kevin Carbonnier, Senior Technical Associate, New Buildings Institute
Mischa Egolf, Technical Associate, New Buildings Institute
Sarah Talkington, Austin Energy and NBI Senior Fellow

PANEL 14–Poster Presentations
It is Getting BETR: The Building Electrification Roadmap
Alexi Miller, Acting Director of Building Innovation

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