Three Key Sustainability Resources

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Our Director of Sustainability, Sara Bayer has been busy this year presenting, participating in panel discussions and writing articles. With climate change topping our list of concerns and climate solutions topping on our list of hopes, we’re sharing three key resources for developers, architects, engineers, contractors and other in our industry, from Sara’s work over the last six months.

Electri-Fiction to Electrificaton: Overcoming Barriers (Urban Green Council)
Urban Green has identified electrification roadblocks and proposed a range of solutions, but the path to 80x50 remains unclear. As public policies and market forces move toward decarbonization, they looked at why progress on electrification has been slow and how to overcome barriers by examining:

·       The future of energy codes

·       Advances in heating and energy retrofits

·       Case studies on hot water heat pumps in multifamily buildings.

Sara presents in Session 3, The Future is Now: Warming Up to Hot Water - Hear the lessons learned from the design and installation of heat pump water heaters in five Brooklyn multifamily projects.

But all of the panels are worth a watch!

BEEX Healthy Housing - The Rise
Beyond Zero Series: Designing Healthy Buildings - The Beyond Zero series celebrates low carbon projects across the State of New York that improve the health, affordability, and resiliency of communities.

Sara presents The Rise, a 72-unit passive house development with affordable and supportive homes for justice-involved families.

Passive House Accelerator Magazine: Delicate Balance Part 1 & Part 2
In this two part article, Sara and Carmel Pratt of Bright Power discuss Embodied Carbon in construction and the tools used in its calculations and then how MAP and Bright Power have worked together to achieve an optimized minimum in a case study project - Dekalb Commons.