Courses

In this free lecure, Roy Collver examines important details you should know when combining two or more boilers into a single heating plant. He covers applications from large residential, up to bigger commercial and institutional systems.

In this free 30-minute lecture, David Bainbridge describes the art of placemaking and offers a unique perspective about proper site selection.

This short free course will help you explore the practical side adding home electrification elements to your business and prepare to navigate potential challenges with your clients.

This free lecture describes a unique method of managing the operation of biomass-fueled as well as auxiliary boilers for optimum system performance.

This small New Hampshire town was faced with a host of issues with its 35,000 sf school. Key areas included IAQ problems, lack of temperature control, obsolete HVAC equipment, and high energy bills. A small group of volunteers proposed a radical solution.

Learn about one of the most sustainable and resilient buildings ever constructed, the 544,000 sf Harvard Science and Engineering Complex.

Should we be trying to electrify everything? Is it practical for existing and new buildings with the technologies we have now? Two engineers with different takes on these questions will debate electrifying residential buildings.

Ann Edminster discusses Zero Energy Homes, economic considerations, minimizing building energy needs, occupant energy uses and renewable energy systems in this course.

This course takes a look at moderate vs. deep energy retrofits and asks the question - how do we balance doing what we believe is achievable here and now with our obligation to push for radical transformation?

There is a high demand for contractors in government-funded residential construction-focused areas that serve our most vulnerable households. Simply put, there are not enough contractors available tocomplete the work.

This presentation is for architects, builders, and others who want a better understanding about how buildings interact thermally with the ground and how to calculate heat loss to the ground.

Understanding the trajectory of Massachusetts’ energy policy will drastically change the way our homes are designed and built.

This free course will cover the anatomy of a window, mechanisms that transfer heat through windows, and window design and application strategies.

In this lecture, Andy Shapiro will ask and answer questions relative to understanding how well a new, small, well insulated house is performing on energy use and temperature control.

This course focuses on home renovations - finding the sweet spot between existing and desired and balancing expenses versus savings.

The session will provide an introduction to standardized retrofits for multifamily housing, an overview of the best practices in Europe, and the practical implementation in the US market.

Ann Edminster gives an overview of water in sustainable building practices by discussing distribution, the use of water on sites, "zero net" water and much more.

Delve into the critical intersections between water, resilience, decarbonization, and preservation when looking at building projects.

John Siegenthaler discusses the protection of wood gasification boilers through a 58 minute lecture, and a free PDF tutorial.