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Webinar: Don't Wait: A Canopy Prep Timeline, July 18, 12 pm EDT
Canopy systems are important additions to the building envelope, as well as providing a beautiful, unique aesthetic. Additionally, canopy systems require proper planning, knowledge, and a well-kept ti
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Access to clean air is essential for human health, productivity and comfort. While many builders, owners, facilities managers, and their service providers invest significant resources to achieve safe,
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Free Webinar: Community-System Strategies for Resilient Cooling, March 26, 12 -1 pm ET
Community infrastructure, such as thermal energy networks, district geothermal, urban forests, shade structures, and smart surfaces, can have a collectively lower upfront cost and lower community-wide
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Residential HVAC System Performance Certification Program, February 17-18, Anaheim, California
In this two-day certification course, HVAC professionals will learn how to discover and repair hidden energy-draining comfort system defects, reduce call-backs and increase customer satisfaction.
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Multifamily Passive House – Live Online, January 21, 12 - 3 pm ET
This course is an in-depth look at basic strategies for delivering successful all-electric decarbonized Passive House apartment buildings teams want to build, and families want to live in.
As we pu
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Free Webinar: The Clean Energy Equity Investment Gap, January 13, 10 - 11 am ET
Meeting global climate and development goals will require a rapid and sustained scale-up of clean energy infrastructure investment in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs). These countries
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Match Made in HVAC: Choosing the Right Heat Pump for Your Building, December 11, 3 - 5 pm ET
In Match Made in HVAC: Choosing the Right Heat Pump for Your Building, you will learn the first steps in transitioning from fossil-fueled heating and cooling systems to heat pumps for energy-effi
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Tour of the Energy Education Center, December 11, Tulare, California
Are you curious about energy efficiency and how it is generated, stored, and distributed? Are you interested in learning more about the latest innovations and technologies in renewable energy? If so,
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Circular economy principles represent the latest phase of sustainable building design, moving beyond efficiency to focus on full material lifecycles. By designing for reuse, repair, and recycling, bui
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Free Green Building Webinar: Protect, Enhance and Maintain Glass, November 3, 12 pm ET
This webinar will evaluate protective coatings as a solution for many common problems encountered during the life-cycle of a building. Some of the easily recognized benefits of a low maintenance coati
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The Greentown Labs Climatetech Summit is a deep dive into accelerating deployment through collaboration. Climatetech entrepreneurs are developing the solutions that are the core of global decarbonizat
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USGBC's West North Central regional Emerging Professionals Working Group invites you to join this online interactive program designed to help you reach your sustainable building car
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2022 SPEER Policy + Industry Workshop, Austin, TX, September 26-27
Join SPEER members, partners, and allies for two days of energy dialogue. The event will exchange thoughts on energy policies and the changing landscape of both the Texas energy grid and national
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13th Annual North American Passive House Conference, September 19 - 23, Boston, MA
Path to Zero Comfort, Health, Resilience, Carbon Action NAPHC is the leading passive building conference for climate-specific zero energy design, construction, and building science expertise. Pre-…
Free Webinar: Can We Have Compliant, Carbon Negative Cement? - Free CE Webinar, July 20, 12 PM
This session will explore how we are decarbonizing portland cement and possibly making it carbon negative. Is it possible?
Lessons Learned:
- Show people where CO2 is produced in cement
- Revie
Webinar: Building Resilience -- Resilient Water Systems, July 13, 11:30 am PDT
Access to clean drinking water is a fundamental human right. California’s water system faces a variety of challenges, from drought to an aging water infrastructure, to changes in precipitation.
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2022 Affordable Housing Summit, Virtual, June 14-15
Housing plays a critical role in the health and equity of neighborhoods and in their resiliency to the effects of climate change. Building affordable housing right now means accounting for these simul
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Conquering the Energy Code Course: Residential, August 16th, Farmingdale, NY
The new Energy Code is now in effect! Conquering the Energy Code: Residential prepares architects and engineers in New York State to comply with the many new requirements in the 2015 NYS Energy Conser…
Net Zero 2018 Conference: Net Zero For All, Sept. 12-14, Los Angeles, California
Join the movement, Let's build a net zero future for everyone. Meet the 900+ attendees and 75+ exhibitors from every sector of the building and infrastructure industry who are paving the way forward…
Bloomberg publishes a long-term economic analysis of the world’s power sector up to 2050 each year, called New Energy Outlook (NEO). NEO* 2018 sees $11.5 trillion to be invested internationally…
Beach Cleanup & Bash with Three Main & Rozalia Project, July 12, South Boston
Roll up your sleeves with ThreeMain and Rozalia Project on Thursday, July 12th for a fun and educational beach cleanup. This family-friendly event features a full morning of fun, educational activiti…
Rapid Housing National Conference: Speed Without Compromise, June 22, Dublin, Ireland
Why attend? Availability and conditions of the housing stock in Ireland are shaping what the Government itself acknowledged as a potential crisis. On the 22nd of June 2018, the National Conference on…
The biennial World Cities Summit is an exclusive platform for government leaders and industry experts to address livable and sustainable city challenges, share integrated urban solutions and forge new…
2018 3rd International Conference on Green Composite Materials, June 28 - 30, Sarawak, Malaysia
ICGCM 2018 focuses on all technical and practical aspects of green composite materials. The goal of this conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to foc…
Home Building Crossroads: 2015 Energy Code & High Performance Join the event in Portsmouth, NH, for a lively discussion about the changes in the 2015 IECC as they relate to the building enclosure. …
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