Topics: Insights
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2024 Conference: NYC Next
At our 2024 conference, experts in sustainable buildings explored AI in construction, heat pump water heaters, and solutions for cutting embodied carbon.
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Tour: The Daily News Building’s Thermal Storage System
Join Urban Green’s emerging professionals on April 18 for a tour of the Daily News Building’s thermal storage system!
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Unearthing geothermal energy
Brightcore’s Jonathan Hernandez joins Urban Green’s Ellen Honigstock to discuss geothermal energy.
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The Green Economy Action Plan (w/ Nse Esema)
Nse Esema joined Urban Green Live to discuss NYC’s Green Economy Action Plan.
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Commissioning, you complete me!
Building systems are designed and installed separately, but they need to work together for a building to function as intended. Kelly Westby and Ellen Honigstock discuss how it happens.
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Unlocking Incentives: Multifamily Upgrades
In this special webinar with the NYC Accelerator and Con Edison, we unpack the utility incentives that are available to multifamily buildings.
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Historic buildings, modern policies
Dr. Erica Avrami, Nate Rogers and Kate Reggev discuss how new legislation could necessitate energy retrofits in historic buildings.
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Office to residential conversions: The carbon story (w/ David Farnsworth & Tess McNamara)
How much carbon could be saved by 2050 if NYC expanded the range of buildings eligible for office to residential conversions?
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Retrofits in occupied buildings
Hear from Trevor Smith, a construction manager with extensive experience in completing design-build energy projects in occupied buildings.
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Workforce Solutions for Decarbonizing Buildings
What will energy upgrades spurred by LL97 mean for the workforce?
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Decarbonizing finance
NYC Comptroller Brad Lander joins John Mandyck to discuss how finance can be used to advance decarbonization.
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The sustainability myth
What are the hidden costs and contradictions of NYC’s sustainability agenda? Dr. Melissa Checker joins Amy Marpman and Ellen Honigstock to unpack the “sustainability myth.”