Trade/Profession: Engineering
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NYC Next: Facing down the future
Read our recap of the Urban Green 2025 conference, NYC Next: Shaping Building Decarbonization!
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NYC Next: Shaping Building Decarbonization
Check out the recordings and photos from NYC Next: Shaping Building Decarbonization!
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Decarbonizing Con Edison’s district steam (w/ Matthew Ketschke)
Hear from Con Edison President Matthew Ketschke about plans to decarbonize NYC’s district steam.
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Building the Green Workforce Ecosystem in NYC
Learn about the barriers and solutions for growing the green workforce in NYC.
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Cool Switch
Replacing central ACs with heat pumps is a sleeper electrification opportunity for many New York homes.
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Heating with ice
Mark MacCracken, the Vice President of CALMAC at Trane Technologies, joins host Ellen Honigstock and co-host Whitney Smith to discuss thermal energy storage.
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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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High hopes for heat recovery
Learn how heat pumps can help thousands of NYC’s largest buildings reuse their wasted heat!
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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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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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What’s in the December 2023 rules for LL97?
The NYC Department of Buildings has released the new package of proposed rules for Local Law 97. Here’s what you need to know.
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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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LL97 in Focus: Jumpstarting multifamily building upgrades
Local Law 97 is set to drive 25,000 retrofit projects in 5,500 prewar low-rise buildings by 2030.
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LL97: Unpacking the Proposed Rules (2023)
Hear from the NYC Department of Buildings on the new package of proposed rules for Local Law 97.
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Cutting down embodied carbon
Ellen Honigstock and Prateek Srivastava sit down with Stantec’s Robby Vogel to get a structural engineer’s take on strategies to reduce embodied carbon.