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Free Webinar: Deeper, Healthier Electrification - Passive House Retrofits, March 19, 12 pm ET
Electrifying existing buildings is a crucial step toward reducing reliance on fossil fuels, but it introduces certain challenges. These include the risk of diminished resilience in the built environment during power outages and increased costs for backup power… more...
Reimagine Buildings: Multifamily, Online, March 12, 11:30 am - 4 pm ET
Reimagine Buildings: Multifamily brings together the practitioners, owners, and researchers pushing comfortable, resilient, climate-ready housing from vision to reality. This is not a hypothetical conversation - it’s grounded in real projects, real … more...
Indoor Air Quality Essentials and Survey Intro, Online, March 11, 1 - 2 pm
While the days of smog-filled skies and soot-covered buildings are thankfully in the past, air quality remains an important issue in our region. Air pollutants are everywhere, from outside sources like vehicles, industry, and wildfires, to inside sources like … more...
Introduction to the components of air quality (particulates, microbial, gases), technologies (ventilation, filters, bi-polar ionization, photo-catalytic oxidation, ultraviolet germicidal irradiation, DCV, etc) that can improve the air that occupants breath, an… more...
Site Visit to Neville Island Concrete Plant, March 9, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The urgency to reduce embodied carbon from materials and construction is reshaping how the built environment is designed and delivered. This site visit to Castle Builders Supply concrete plant on Neville Island will highlight a local manufacturer that is activ… more...
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