Free 40-minute webinar

Learn about replicable strategies for analyzing and making decisions about energy investments from affordable multifamily housing developer and Energy Trust Net Zero Fellow Rob Roy. Through his research, Rob evaluated the efficacy and replicability of Pacific Crest Affordable Housing’s financial model, which considers the long-term monetary impact of implementing various energy efficiency measures and renewable energy systems.

Free 70-minute webinar

Learn from experts in the field, who will present from a design and analysis perspective on equipment and software tools that benefit grid resiliency. Hear from experts at WSP and Schneider Electric, both firms that work on some of Oregon’s most renowned resilient buildings including the Oregon State Treasury Resilience Building, to help ensure project sustainability and resiliency goals.

Free 80-minute webinar

Learn how Net Zero Fellow Anyeley Hallová and her team at Adre researched opportunities for district energy, water and waste systems to bring economic, resilience and environmental benefits to historically underserved communities. The research also covers microgrid opportunities and constraints as well as opportunities for both individual and multi-building projects seeking resilience planning.

Free 70-minute webinar

Learn about GEB tools that are available for your project team and practical solutions to implement grid resiliency principles into your design. This training shows how commercial professionals can use newly available resources to demonstrate more meaningful project-level GEB metrics to developers and decision makers. Learn also about design guides, calculation tools and recommendations for grid-interactive strategies for your building, and how these methods have been translated into real-world case examples.

Free 45-minute webinar

Learn how this highly energy-efficient building is projected to use 50% less energy than code compliant buildings with the addition of 127 independent living apartments to the existing senior living campus. The engineer and architect share how this project’s EUI goals and the owner’s commitment to sustainability, resident comfort, safety and health resulted in an extensive dual modeling analysis.

Free 45-minute webinar

Learn how Net Zero Fellow Hannah Rusnac and her team at Holst Architecture analyzed the embodied and operational carbon of a range of wood-framed and hybrid construction in eight multifamily housing projects in two regional climate zones. This research helps set goals and benchmarks for the whole life carbon footprint of future multifamily construction in our state.

Free 80-minute webinar

Learn how GEBs play a critical role in supporting sustainability and resiliency goals as experts discuss pathways to support evolving grids through demand flexibility and load shifting to reduce peak energy consumption and enhance a resilient grid. In addition, case studies of successful grid-interactive technologies demonstrate how design professionals can help meet climate goals, ensure resiliency and advance the industry as a whole.

Free 70-minute webinar

Learn how Net Zero Fellow, Jessy Ledesma and her team studied the potential to move toward net zero affordable housing by clustering units, centralizing mechanical and hot water systems and optimizing multifamily development scale for solar microgrids. Partners included two housing developers, HomeWork Development and Wild Hair Development, and the University of Oregon Energy Studies in Buildings Laboratory.

Free 50-minute webinar

Learn how very high-efficiency (VHE) dedicated outdoor air systems (DOAS) provide an optimized, high-performance approach to HVAC that significantly reduces energy use by combining high-efficiency equipment with design best practices. This training summarizes key recommendations from a recently published VHE DOAS energy modeling guidelines report from BetterBricks delivered by NEEA.

Free 60-minute webinar

Learn how Net Zero Fellow, Jean von Bargen Root, explored barriers and opportunities for pursuing net-zero in commercial-industrial developments. This training evaluates current and future climate conditions and assesses how local codes, standards and policies help or hinder net-zero performance in commercial-industrial developments.