BDC Presents: Thermal Networks
Thermal Energy Networks are utility-scale infrastructure projects that connect multiple buildings into a shared network with sources of thermal energy like geothermal boreholes, abandoned mines and wells, surface water, and wastewater. Join the Building [...]
Outside-the-Box Options to Advance Multifamily Building Efficiency
Multifamily buildings have historically been a challenging building type when it comes to energy code requirements. Whether its challenges related to envelope tightness and testing, implementing new technologies such as EV, PV, storage or [...]
Cracking the Code: Unlocking the Benefits of Off-site Construction
Industrialized construction practices, such as off-site manufacturing, have demonstrated an ability to reduce build times, lower costs, improve quality and performance, reduce environmental impact, create safer working environments, and increase overall construction productivity. Although [...]
Less is More: Building to Zero Energy, Water, and Carbon
Recurring droughts and fires, severe weather stressing electric grids, and fluctuations in the natural gas market have communities and individuals increasingly seeking out solutions to create more resilient homes and businesses. Buildings that are [...]
Energy Code Implementation: Insights from the Field to the Classroom
With the rollout of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), opportunities to improve energy code implementation across the country are top of mind. Although $225 million is earmarked to support creative implementation efforts, [...]
Energy Codes and Utility Programs: The Peanut Butter & Jelly of Energy Efficiency
Energy codes raise the proverbial energy efficiency floor while typical utility investments support programs well above code. However, this dynamic has changed considerably; creative energy code claimed savings programs have emerged as a win, [...]
Midwest Energy Solutions Conference
The Midwest Energy Solutions Conference is the region's largest energy efficiency conference, uniting innovators and decision-makers from across the industry to celebrate the past year's accomplishments and explore our vision for the coming year's [...]
Cooling Down the U.S. with Maximum Heat Pump Adoption
Please join the Clean Cooling Collaborative along with our partners Energy Solutions, VEIC, and Arup as they share highlights from their new report on the opportunity to increase heat pump use in the U.S. [...]