At our 2024 conference, experts in sustainable buildings explored three key trends shaping the future of building in New York City.
Published on June 3, 2024
To reduce carbon emissions to net zero, New York City must continue to undergo major changes. But what will these changes be? And what trends will shape the city of 2050?
At the 2024 Urban Green Conference, NYC Next, we brought together experts to explain three key trends that will shape the city: how artificial intelligence will affect construction, the growth of heat pump water heaters, and tangible solutions for cutting embodied carbon. We spoke to the individuals who have an inside look at these trends and are doing the work to decarbonize buildings.
Keynote conversation
- Elijah Hutchinson, Executive Director, NYC Mayor’s Office of Climate and Environmental Justice
Session 1
AI in Construction: Disruption or Dud?
- Nora Swanson, JB&B (Moderator)
- Shane Burger, Woods Bagot
- Denis Leff, Suffolk Construction
- Robert Otani, Thornton Tomasetti
Session 2
Turning up the Heat (Pumps) on Hot Water
- Bomee Jung, Cadence OneFive (Moderator)
- Sara Bayer, Magnusson Architecture and Planning
- Nicole Ceci, Steven Winter Associates
- Jennifer Leone, NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development
Session 3
Embodied Carbon is Here to Stay
- Amanda Kaminsky, Lendlease (Moderator)
- Chris Erickson, Climate Earth
- Diana Farmer, Science-Based Targets Initiative
- Mariane Jang, NYS Office of General Services
- Tess McNamara, Arup
Outreach Partners
32BJ Training Fund
AIA Westchester Hudson Valley
BuildGreenCT
Building Energy Exchange
CUNY Building Performance Lab
HXE Partners
Local 94
NESEA
NYC Accelerator
NYCOBA | NOMA
NYSSPE
Passive House Accelerator
The Rangel Initiative
Soulful Synergy
Urban Design Forum
USGBC
NYC Next: New tech, new tools, new targets
Our 2024 conference explored three key trends shaping the future of building in NYC.
High hopes for heat recovery
How can heat pumps help thousands of NYC's largest buildings reuse their wasted heat?
Cutting down embodied carbon
Ellen Honigstock and Prateek Srivastava sit down with Stantec’s Robby Vogel to get a structural engineer’s take on strategies to reduce embodied carbon.