GETTING TO ZERO: CARBON NEUTRAL CODES
2021-01-28 23:30 - 2021-01-29 00:30 (Asia/Kolkata) | online event
For decades, U.S. building energy codes have centered on kilowatt-hour savings in buildings. But urgency on climate change is pressing us to rapidly address and mitigate carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions from the built environment, which is responsible for 39% of operational and embodied carbon. Join us for a one-hour webinar on the opportunities for states and cities to leverage their energy codes in order to maximize carbon reductions and minimize costs including a broad overview of best practice strategies and approach in action. NBI staff will introduce new “decarbonization code language” that it is compatible with the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) and can be adopted as an overlay option. The code language and supporting guidance, which will help adopting agencies move to carbon neutral requirements in newly constructed homes and commercial buildings, prioritizes efficient electric equipment and is designed so that it can be implemented to meet jurisdictions where they are.

EDGE Discovery Workshop: Practical Steps to Zero Carbon Buildings – Online – Global
2021-01-21 12:30 - 17:00 (Asia/Kolkata) | online event
IFC is hosting a free workshop on Thursday, January 21 to learn practical steps for designing zero carbon buildings using EDGE: a fast, easy, and more affordable way to build and brand green.
The workshop will focus on concrete actions that developers, investors, building owners, and policy makers can take to design, build, and operate carbon neutral buildings. Climate science informs that all new buildings need to be zero carbon by 2030, while existing buildings will need to be retrofitted to be zero carbon by 2050.

ETEnergyworld Smart Electricity Conclave
2021-01-19 11:00 - 17:00 (Asia/Kolkata) | online event
Digitalisation has fast permeated into the energy utilities too. Power plants, grid operators and electricity suppliers are adopting tools of the digital age to generate greater efficiencies across their operational business units, significantly improve customer experience, and accelerate innovation to stay ahead in rapidly changing markets. The Covid-19 pandemic has further hastened this trend as utilities look for newer ways to optimize delivery.
The ETEnergyworld Smart Electricity Conclave aims at providing a platform for digitalisation experts from around the globe to share best practices, chalk out a digital roadmap and act as a bridge between the industry and decision-makers for the success of Industry.

Three day workshop @MIT: Model Cities Anywhere – Pathways towards a Net Zero Urban Building Stock
2021-01-19 10:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
The Sustainable Design Lab at MIT has developed an new web app called UBEM.io to streamline the creation and analysis of urban building energy models (UBEMs). The resulting urban models can be directly used within MIT’s Urban Modeling Interface (UMI) to calculate operational building energy use along with savings from various retrofitting upgrades for hundreds or thousands of new or existing buildings. During this free, three day workshop we are looking for teams who want to develop a greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction plan for their jurisdiction.
When & Where?
The workshop will be taught remotely. Formal instructions will last from 10am-3pm EST every day from January 19th to 21st 2021. During the workshop, external groups of two will be teamed up with two MIT students to set up a prototype UBEM of parts of their city. The expectation is that external groups will continue working with the city following the workshop and ultimately share their findings with the instructors.
Eligibility Requirements
o Participants must demonstrate that they have existing, strong relationships with a municipal government agency responsible for implementing a GHG emission reduction plan. To demonstrate actual interest, a city representative is expected to participate during the first hour of the workshop for an overview (Jan 19 10am ET) as well as during the final presentation of preliminary results on Jan 21 at 1pm ET.
o At least one member of the team should have experience using building energy modeling software and be committed to continue working with the city on the UBEM past the three day workshop.
o Data requirements: A recent GIS shapefile and tax assessor data or other databases describing building heights (or stories) and program must be available to the team before the workshop.
o Software requirements: To initially generate our UBEMs, we will be using MIT’s new UBEM.io web app. For the actual energy simulations we will be using the Urban modeling Interface, a plug-in for Rhinoceros 3D (Rhino). Participants will need access to a newish Windows computer with Rhino on it.
Registration
To register your interest in the workshop, please fill out this form.

Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW)
2021-01-18 - 2021-01-21 | online event
Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW) is a global platform for accelerating the world’s sustainable development. The week brings together a unique fusion of policy makers, industry specialists, technology pioneers and the next generation of sustainability leaders. Through its initiatives and events, ADSW is a catalyst for sharing knowledge, implementing strategies and delivering solutions to drive human progress. ADSW is committed to furthering our understanding of the major social, economic and environmental trends shaping the world’s sustainable development.
In response to the changing global landscape, ADSW is taking a holistic approach to sustainability to align more closely with the UAE Vision 2021 and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The pillars of ADSW address Energy and Climate Change, Water and Food, Future of Mobility, Space, Biotechnology in Health, Tech for Good. Cutting across ADSW programmes and pillars include Artificial Intelligence, Youth and Community.

Urban ARC 2021 | Urban Imaginaries
2021-01-14 - 2021-01-16 | Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS), India
The fifth edition of Urban ARC, the Annual Research Conference of the Indian Institute for Human Settlements, will be conducted between the 14 – 16 January 2021. The theme for this edition is ‘Urban Imaginaries: Past, Present and Future’. The idea of imaginaries holds a pivotal place in inquiry. Central to the very nature of knowledge production is the imagination of a better world. It is in keeping with this centrality of imaginations that Urban ARC 2021 invites papers and panels from a wide range of disciplinary spaces, situated in theoretical, methodological or practice-based approaches to the urban.
The conference aims to provide a critical and fruitful space for engagement across themes, sectors, methodologies and disciplines in order to enable an understanding and harness the potential of Urban Imaginaries. The conference will also host a special track focusing on post-COVID urban futures.
Dates and Procedures:

23 November 2020
Deadline for Submitting Abstracts

4 December 2020
Announcement of Selected Papers

5 January 2021
Submission of Completed Papers

14 – 16 January 2021
Urban ARC 2021

NZEB Knowledge Series | Net Zero & Low Carbon by Design - Bayalpata Hospital in Nepal
2020-12-15 18:00 - 19:00 (Asia/Kolkata) | Online Live Webinar
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Bayalpata Hospital in Achham, Nepal is a culturally-appropriate design that leverages local climate and on-site materials to minimize carbon in the construction process and building operation. Built from low-tech construction methods–primarily reinforced rammed earth–the complex minimized the cost-prohibitive transportation of building materials in this remote, mountainous region. The grid-hybrid solar hospital generates surplus energy due to the combination of passive design strategies–including natural light and ventilation–and a 100-kilowatt photovoltaic array integrated into the buildings’ south-facing roofs, resulting in an impeccable net zero design. This webinar will showcase the process and techniques that went into the making of this exemplary project.
About the speaker:
Tyler Survant
Tyler is an architect and Project Director at Sharon Davis Design, and was the project manager for the Bayalpata Hospital, a rammed earth medical campus in the Himalayas for Nepal’s Ministry of Health and Population, completed in 2019. Formerly with SHoP Architects, Tyler lived in Gaborone, Botswana from 2014 to 2017 for on-site construction administration of the Botswana Innovation Hub, an $85 million USD tech incubator for the country’s Ministry of Tertiary Education, Research, Science and Technology. Sharon Davis Design is an award-winning studio based in New York City with a focus on low-carbon, cost-conscious international projects for marginalized communities. The office prioritizes social justice, economic empowerment, and environmental sustainability, and has gained renown for its ability to deliver both aesthetic accomplishment and social benefit.
This webinar is part of ‘NZEB Knowledge Series’ – an initiative supported by USAID’s MAITREE program (http://maitree.edsglobal.com) to accelerate the discussions and catalyse actions on Net Zero Energy Buildings in India.

The 12th GRIHA Summit - Rejuvenating Resilient Habitats
2020-12-15 - 2020-12-16 | online event
Annual conference on green buildings by The Energy and Resources Institute.
The 12th GRIHA Summit scheduled from December 15-16, 2020 has been themed around “Rejuvenating Resilient Habitats” and shall serve as a platform to deliberate on innovative technologies and solutions which shall help in creating robust mechanisms for developing sustainable and resilient solutions for the benefit of the entire community.
The world has been witnessing a number of natural calamities be it floods, droughts, and cyclones. All these calamities question the way we design our habitats which currently demonstrate rampant usage of resources and hold a complete disregard of nature unlike the buildings that used to be designed in the past. Thus, nature has been giving us signals time and again to change the ways of our operation so as to maintain harmony with the environment or else we would be witnessing some irreversible consequences that would not only affect us but our future generations as well.
Therefore, it is high time for us to change our designing and construction practices to be resilient. Resilience in terms of climate, health related issues, natural calamities, biodiversity, etc. Resilient Habitat is therefore an approach in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation which targets the most vulnerable communities. By restoring the traditional practices of building and cities construction, we wish to gear up the building construction sector for a vibrant and much fresher approach to the built environment, living symbiotically with all the components of the natural environment.

Behaviour, Energy & Climate Change Conference (BECC 2020)
2020-12-07 - 2020-12-10 | online event
The Behavior, Energy & Climate Change Conference (BECC) is the premier international conference focused on understanding human behavior and decision making and using that knowledge to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon future. Currently, in its 14th year, BECC is associated with a growing set of allied conferences in Europe and Asia.
The BECC Conference is convened by the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE), California Institute for Energy and Environment (CIEE) at U.C. Berkeley, and the Environmental and Energy Policy Analysis Center (SEEPAC) at Stanford University.

2020 Energy Efficiency and Climate Policy Forum
2020-12-03 | online event
ACEEE research has found that energy efficiency can halve U.S. energy use and greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. With growing interest in policies to address global climate change, as well as a new Congress and a new presidential term to begin in January 2021, ACEEE will be hosting the Energy Efficiency and Climate Policy Forum to discuss key steps and policies that will help the United States get on this 50% reduction pathway. The forum will feature keynote addresses by a congressional leader and an official associated with the next administration plus four sessions focusing on:

Buildings – improvements to existing buildings and opportunities for electrification
Industry – industrial carbonization strategies
Transportation – advanced vehicles and systems
Cross-cutting – state-led planning, clean energy standard, and carbon pricing

NZEB Knowledge Series | Personal Thermal Comfort Systems: Introduction and Overview
2020-11-27 16:00 - 17:00 (Asia/Kolkata) | Online Live Webinar
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Air-conditioned buildings are conventionally designed and operated to maintain homogeneous thermal conditions withing thermal zones. Maintaining the occupied and unoccupied thermal zones at the same thermal conditions lead to higher energy consumption. More importantly, homogeneous thermal conditions do not address the need for individual thermal comfort preferences of the building occupants. A personal comfort system (PCS) allows the occupants to create desired localized thermal conditions around workstations in the office environment.
In this webinar, Prof Rawal will deliberate on the approaches adopted for the PCS to deliver the desired conditions. It also will deal with investigative methods adopted to understand the impact of the PCS on achieving thermal comfort, energy, and well being of the building occupant. The webinar will include metrics and conditions prescribed by the literature to design and operate PCS in the buildings.
About the speaker:
Rajan Rawal
Executive Director, Centre for Advanced Research in Building Science and Energy, CEPT University, Ahmedabad
Prof. Rawal is the Executive Director of Centre for Advanced Research in Building Science and Energy (CARBSE). He is an architect and his work emphasizes on ‘energy performance of buildings and cities’ and ‘architectural science education’. He is involved in research and development activities at CEPT University and coordinates the activities of CARBSE. He is founder member secretary of India Chapter of International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA) and also serves at IBPSA world committee. He has number of research papers, technical reports and three books to his credits. Prof. Rawal is a well known authority in the area of building energy efficiency and performance.
This webinar is part of ‘NZEB Knowledge Series’ – an initiative supported by USAID’s MAITREE program (http://maitree.edsglobal.com) to accelerate the discussions and catalyse actions on Net Zero Energy Buildings in India.

UNFCCC RACE TO ZERO - NOVEMBER DIALOGUES ON THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
2020-11-18 14:30 - 20:00 (Asia/Kolkata) | online event
The full day event will facilitate dialogues on radical collaboration and on driving ambition by each actor along the value chain to enable each other to race to zero together. It will feature strategic approaches and tools which can drive sector transformation including the regional roadmaps.
Discuss with the CEOs of Saint-Gobain and Majid al Futtaim, the Minister of National Land Use Planning, Urban Planning, and Urban Policy of Morocco, UNEP’s Excutive Director, the Chile and UK High-Level Climate Champions, and many more, on the responsibility to transform this essential sector, and on the enablers needed to make it happen!

Net Zero Live
2020-11-18 13:00 - 2020-11-19 17:00 (Asia/Kolkata) | Online Live Webinar
Some of the topics that will be discussed through our two day programme are:

Delivering net zero – from construction techniques through to operational use
Designing for Embodied carbon – from material specification through to repair and maintenance
Managing and measuring whole Life-cycle carbon costs
What clients want? Costs, impacts and understand planner’s agenda
The Future of Net Zero buildings – what is the evolving picture?

NZEB Knowledge Series | A Climate Based Approach to Carbon-Neutral design
2020-11-11 10:30 - 11:30 (Asia/Kolkata) | Online Live Webinar
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Energy-efficient zero carbon buildings can only be designed after first understanding climate and the design strategies that can be implemented to respond to it. This presentation will describe the Performance-Driven Design workflow at CallisonRTKL using different building simulation tools and applied research results with examples from practice. Research and analysis on carbon neutral design by students at Cal Poly Pomona in the United States carried out under the mentorship of Pablo La Roche will also be shared in the webinar.
About the speaker:
Pablo La Roche
Associate VP, Callison RTKL
Professor, Cal Poly Pomona University
Pablo La Roche is an associate vice president in CallisonRTKL’s Los Angeles office and a leader for the firm’s Performance-Driven DesignTM initiatives, focusing on sustainable design for the commercial practice group. His expansive portfolio includes sustainable buildings all over the world designed with state-of-the-art tools. A tenured professor of architecture at Cal Poly Pomona University, Pablo is also an accomplished author; he has written more than 130 technical papers for journals and conferences, and his book Carbon Neutral Architectural Design placed in the top ten in Amazon’s Energy and Buildings category. He is also past president of the Society of Building Science Educators and chair of the solar buildings division of the American Solar Energy Society.
This webinar is part of ‘NZEB Knowledge Series’ – an initiative supported by USAID’s MAITREE program to accelerate the discussions and catalyse actions on Net Zero Energy Buildings in India.

Greenbuild International Conference & Expo 2020
2020-11-10 08:00 - 2020-11-12 17:00 (Asia/Kolkata) | online event
Greenbuild is the world’s largest conference and expo dedicated to green building.
The Greenbuild International Conference & Expo is moving its 2020 event to an all-virtual format. The capstone event will take place November 10-12. This cutting-edge virtual experience will include all the key elements attendees and partners have come to expect from our physical event. Interactive and collaborative education sessions, continuing education, virtual booths, future-focused keynotes from high-profile voices and valuable networking.

Net Zero Live 2020 - Accelerating Climate Action
2020-11-10 - 2020-11-12 | online event
Net-Zero Live 2020 is aimed at uniting businesses, policymakers, investors, NGO’s, product and solutions providers around a common purpose: to spark new ideas and actions on the path to a sustainable future. This online event will include high-level keynote talks, interactive panel discussions, facilitated networking sessions and educational masterclasses, as well as virtual exhibition booths showcasing the cutting-edge net-zero technologies and services that will shape the decade ahead.

International Passive House Open Days
2020-11-06 08:00 - 2020-11-08 17:00 (Asia/Kolkata) | online event
Live tours
– Panel discussions and Q+A sessions with professionals
– Info sessions focussing on specific aspects of a building, for example, comparing different mechanical ventilation strategies or different types of balcony thermal bridge detailing.
– Any other ideas you may have!

These events will be put into a programme for the International Passive House Open Days weekend so that the community can make the most of the events on offer!

Residential rooftop solar - ready for take-off
2020-11-03 08:00 - 17:00 (Asia/Kolkata) | online event
BRIDGE TO INDIA hosted a webinar to discuss rooftop solar adoption by MSME consumers. The Webinar was graced by an eminent industry panel comprising Ravinder Singh (Chief – Solar Rooftop Business, TATA Power), Mr. Harsha Venkatesh (Director, Enphase Energy), Mr. Shravan Sampath (CEO, Oakridge Energy), Mr. KP Baiju (DGM, State Bank of India), Mr. Suyog Malviya (National Lead – BD, Bajaj Finserv), and Mr. Madhulal J (Sr. Project Manager, Kerala State Electricity Board).

NZEB Knowledge Series | Low energy cooling and ventilation strategies for tropical residences
2020-10-30 16:00 - 17:00 (Asia/Kolkata) | Online Live Webinar
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The webinar will present design and control of low energy cooling and ventilation strategies suitable for residences located in tropical countries. These strategies have been developed under the research project funded by the Engineering and Physical Research Council – Global Challenges Research Fund (EPSRC-GCRF) and is carried out by Loughborough University, UK and Centre for Advanced Research in Building Science and Energy (CARBSE) at CEPT University. The webinar will explain the process of designing suitable ventilation openings for natural (NV) and mixed-mode (MM) residential buildings in tropical countries. The webinar will describe intelligent control algorithms that harness natural ventilation for residences to optimize indoor air quality and thermal comfort, whilst minimizing the use of air-conditioning. The webinar will also share the expected energy and comfort benefits of implementing the low energy cooling and ventilation strategies in tropical residences.
About the speaker:
Dr. Yashkumar Shukla is Technical Director (Energy Systems) at Centre for Advanced Research in Building Science and Energy (CARBSE). He has more than fifteen years of international experience in building energy-efficiency research and serves as a lead on several energy-efficiency research projects at CARBSE. His current research includes calibration of simulation models, performance characterization of envelope and HVAC systems, net-zero energy buildings, and development of next-generation control algorithms. He has extensive experience in the building management systems, building energy analysis, HVAC system operation, component characterization facilities, development of test chambers, building simulation modeling, and energy efficiency control algorithms.
This webinar is part of ‘NZEB Knowledge Series’ – an initiative supported by USAID’s MAITREE program (http://maitree.edsglobal.com) to accelerate the discussions and catalyse actions on Net Zero Energy Buildings in India.

IGBC Green Building Congress 2020
2020-10-29 - 2020-10-31 | online event
With a modest beginning of 20,000 sq.ft of green footprint in the country in the year 2001, today( as on March 2020) over 5,918 IGBC green building projects, amounting to 7.17 Billion sq.ft are adopting IGBC green building rating systems. This in turn has enabled India become one of the top 5 countries in the world in terms of largest registered green building footprint. IGBC aspires to facilitate 10 billion sq.ft of green building footprint by 2022 (75th year of India’s Independence).
To realize this vision and further advance green building movement in the country, IGBC has been organising its annual flagship event since 2001 onwards which has been evoking excellent response from the stakeholders. Over the years, the event grown significantly in terms of content, outreach and participation. Today, Green Building Congress has consolidated itself as India’s annual flagship event on green built environment. Leading national and international stakeholders will converge at the event to share, learn and explore new growth opportunities.
To further advance green building movement in the country, IGBC is organising its 18th edition of Green Building Congress during 29, 30 & 31 October 2020 on the CII HIVE Virtual Events Platform, India. In line with the global spotlight on people and health, the theme for this year is: ‘Hygiene, Health and Wellbeing’ in Green Built Environment. The annual Green Building Congress for this year has been conceptualised differently to pave way for new opportunities for the building sector, in view of the ongoing pandemic and the challenges ahead, The event has also been designed to be a platform to discover new ways of working for the sector.

Asia Clean Energy Summit
2020-10-27 - 2020-10-29 | online event
Asia Clean Energy Summit (ACES) is Asia’s leading event focusing on clean energy technology, policy and finance supported by leading government agencies, research institutes and industry in Singapore. ACES provides a common platform for regional thought leaders in both the public and private sector to collaborate on critical issues and opportunities in harnessing clean energy for the future. As the regional platform to share and co-create innovative clean energy solutions, ACES supports the vision to be a clean energy hub for Asia.
ACES also

Provides a platform to discuss, understand and experience Singapore’s “living laboratory” for solar adoption, the integration of renewable energy and electric vehicles, and learn how sustainable energy management is essential to liveable cities.
Helps shape the future of clean energy and smart-sustainable cities.
Explores collaboration and innovative clean energy solutions within a vibrant ecosystem of technology / service companies, research institutes and energy leaders.

Integration of Renewable Energy in Buildings in India
2020-10-23 15:00 - 16:30 (Asia/Kolkata) | Online Live Webinar
The webinar is expected to discuss different technological options and the enabling regulatory and policy environment to ensure the effective implementation of the models developed under the project. The stakeholders/participants are required to provide inputs about the necessary steps to be taken to customize technologies suitable as per the local conditions before installation and how developers and technology providers should see the market potential for increased use of renewable energy technologies in buildings in India.
In India, Swiss Development and Cooperation (SDC) has been supporting a project named “Integration of Renewable Energy in Buildings in India”. The broad objective of the project is to design, showcase and monitor building integrated and innovative renewable energy technologies suitable to and affordable in the local condition and applicable for different categories of buildings, which are currently given a major push at the government level in India. Considering that the project is expected to demonstrate the technological interventions for building integrated renewable energy and provide capacity building support to government and private sector stakeholders in India to design and construct buildings and housing societies with increased integration of renewable energy technologies, the project is organizing a webinar with key stakeholders to achieve the following objectives: 1. What kind of technological interventions for building integrated renewable energy can be selected for demonstration of pilots to prove their suitability in different conditions. 2. What kind of models that the project should support for de-risking of investments for promotion of increased use of renewable energy in buildings.

Greenbuild | Global Health and Wellness Summit
2020-10-22 | online event
The Global Health & Wellness Summit brings together employers, building owners, designers, developers, manufacturers, employees and investors who are unlocking enormous benefits and potential in their buildings by committing to green, healthy buildings.

Every story about a green building is a story about people. And it’s imperative that buildings, communities, and cities will regenerate and sustain the health and vitality of all life within a generation. We believe that above all else, green building is at its heart about people.

Objectives for 2020:

Empower the green built environment in its role in the mitigation of current and future public health challenges.
Promote the rating systems and tools that are enabling public health solutions.
Cultivate the knowledge of employers, owners, designers, developers, manufacturers, and employees who are unlocking enormous benefits and potential in their buildings by committing to green, healthy buildings.
Advance joint efforts in developing equitable and widely used practices to raise the quality of life for everyone and every community across the globe.

Zero Carbon Conference
2020-10-07 - 2020-10-08 | online event
The Zero Carbon Conference will respond to this need and forge a collaboration of our community of architects, designers, engineers, contractors, and responsible manufacturers–along with ESG investors and developers who are taking active steps to accelerate the decarbonization of the built environment.
Through keynotes, plenaries, panel sessions and 1:1 networking opportunities, practitioners and funders will come together to advance these initiatives around operational + embodied carbon reduction, cost-benefit analysis, and community resources to achieve an equitable decarbonized future. The Zero Carbon Conference will deliver the technology, the materials, the know-how, and the financing models needed to pave the way for scalable decarbonized global communities.

Greenbuild | Resilience Summit
2020-10-01 | online event
One Mission:

Raising the standard of resilience by putting green first. Learn the newest research and technology around resilience-enhancing designs, technologies, materials and methods.

Objectives for 2020:

Discuss a sustainable future for all by focusing on the development of resilient cities and communities.
Learn how to champion equitable, safe and healthy development policies by focusing on the implementation of advanced technologies that improve the performance of their communities and cities.
Incorporate concepts like wellness and human experience into city planning, development and management.
Convene government officials, planners, developers, designers, public health professionals, community organizations, etc., who are breaking down fragmentation in the market as they focus on resilient and equitable outcomes.

Net Zero Festival 2020
2020-09-30 - 2020-10-02
The world’s first Net Zero Festival will now take place virtually across 3 days, from Wednesday 30 September – Friday 2 October 2020, each day dedicated to a different theme – leadership, innovation and culture – with action being the overarching theme for the entire Festival.
BuildingGreen will bring together top business leaders, influential academics and policymakers, and inspirational thinkers to provide an invaluable guide to the economic and industrial revolution that will define the post-Covid world.

24th International Passive House Conference
2020-09-20 08:00 - 2020-10-08 17:00 (Asia/Kolkata) | online event
The 24th International Passive House Conference, this year for the first time as a VIRTUAL conference was held from 20 September to 08 October 2020, conference participants and visitors of the exhibition had the chance to discover the conference programme, with more that 90 speakers in lecture and building tour sessions, and ONLINE Passive House Exhibition.

NZ20 | Net Zero Webinar Series
2020-09-17 08:00 - 2020-10-29 17:00 (Asia/Kolkata) | Online Live Webinar
The Net Zero Webinar Series is an ongoing platform for you to expand your knowledge of innovations and trends in climate, carbon, energy, water, waste, and transit together to build a net zero future for all people.
The series allows the experts to extend the programming beyond a two-day conference and highlight educational content that drills down on a particular topic or theme on an ongoing basis.

35th PLEA CONFERENCE | Planning Post Carbon Cities
2020-09-01 - 2020-09-03 | UDC School of Economics and Business, 15008 , A Coruña, Spain
PLEA stands for “Passive and Low Energy Architecture”, a commitment to the development, documentation and diffusion of the principles of bioclimatic design and the application of natural and innovative techniques for sustainable architecture and urban design.
PLEA 2020 is organized by the University of A Coruña. The theme of PLEA 2020 is Planning Post Carbon Cities and will explore the interplay between research, technology and design in defining and planning future cities. It is the aim of the conference to bring together designers, academics, researchers, students, and professionals in the pursuit of better and more sustainable environments.

Integrated controls in NZEBs: Technologies for lighting and HVAC
2020-07-16 18:30 - 19:30 (Asia/Kolkata) | Online Live Webinar
Archives: EventsModern high performance and net-zero buildings are increasingly smart. And one of the requirements of a smart building is understanding occupant presence. This can increasingly be accomplished through luminaire-level lighting controls (LLLC) with occupancy sensing in every fixture, creating a dense mesh network of sensing. These occupancy sensing networks are in turn paired with digital communications that allow these sensors to be tapped for many uses, not just lighting. The sensor signals can also be used to save HVAC energy, control plug loads, understand space utilization, and more. This presentation will describe the basics of LLLC, how they can be integrated with other systems, and how designers and operators can make the most of the data from them, including specific sequence suggestions. We will also discuss use cases in some example buildings.
About the Speaker:
Scott is the Director of Research and Innovation with Slipstream, leading research efforts focused on commercial building energy systems. His work focuses on applied research of technologies and processes through field monitoring, analysis, and extensive energy modeling. He has specialized in the research of HVAC, lighting, and plug load controls, as well as ground source heat pumps. In addition, he consults with architects and engineers on high-performance building designs and systems. Scott is an active member of ASHRAE at both the local and national levels; including membership in their national Technical Committees. Bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from UW-Madison, as well as a graduate certificate in energy analysis and policy.
This webinar is part of ‘NZEB Knowledge Series’ – an initiative supported by USAID’s MAITREE program (http://maitree.edsglobal.com) to accelerate the discussions and catalyse actions on Net Zero Energy Buildings in India.
