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SUMMARY:Harnessing the Power of Cool Exterior Walls to Enhance Heat Resilience
DESCRIPTION:Extreme heat causes more deaths in the United States than any other natural disaster. \nDiscussions around the role of buildings in heat mitigation and resilience often focus on air-conditioning\, and while A/C can be lifesaving\, it also increases peak cooling demand\, greenhouse gas emissions\, and waste heat released back into the environment. Further\, regions with historically cooler climates and low percentages of air-conditioned homes are now experiencing longer\, more frequent\, and more intense heat waves\, leaving residents without A/C at risk of heat illness and death. \nIncorporating passive cooling strategies in new construction and building retrofits is critically important to improve heat resilience in buildings without access to A/C and to reduce A/C demand in conditioned spaces. \nLike cool roofs\, which are required for most buildings in California and for commercial buildings in several other U.S. cities and states\, cool exterior walls efficiently reflect solar radiation back into the atmosphere instead of transferring it as heat into buildings. For a single building\, this helps reduce solar heat gain\, indoor temperatures\, and A/C use\, while increasing resilience to extreme heat\, particularly in buildings with little insulation or that do not have or are unable to operate A/C. On a larger scale\, this helps raise the community’s albedo\, lower outdoor temperatures\, mitigate heat impacts\, reduce peak cooling demand\, and decrease greenhouse gas emissions. \nThis presentation will describe the impacts of cool exterior walls on buildings and communities and the radiative properties of solar reflectance and thermal emittance\, which determine the coolness of a wall surface. It also will provide examples of potential HVAC energy cost savings resulting from cool exterior wall use in different U.S. climates and equip attendees with the ability to estimate building-specific savings using a publicly available tool developed by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Additionally\, the presentation will summarize wall radiative property provisions in codes\, standards\, and programs\, including the 2024 International Energy Conservation Code\, ASHRAE Standard 90.1\, and LEED v4.1\, and provide a tutorial for how to find and interpret independently verified radiative property data for exterior wall materials. \n\nLearning Objectives\n\n\n\n\nExplain how cool exterior walls can reduce a building’s solar heat gain and lower temperatures of buildings and surrounding communities.\nDescribe the surface radiative properties solar reflectance and thermal emittance\, which influence the coolness of building exteriors.\nEstimate building-specific cool exterior wall HVAC energy cost savings using Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Cool Surface Savings Explorer and local electricity cost data.\nCompare the radiative properties of exterior wall materials and understand which materials will meet project requirements using a third-party database of rated products.
URL:http://35.169.182.169/event/harnessing-the-power-of-cool-exterior-walls-to-enhance-heat-resilience/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Advancing Building Enclosure Technology,BEST Webinar Series,External ORG Event,NIBS Location Event,Webinar
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SUMMARY:BEC Greater-Detroit Symposium
DESCRIPTION:The Building Enclosure Council of Greater Detroit is proud to celebrate their Symposium with you again. For each Symposium\, the BEC-GD symposium presents a distinguished panel of speakers to discuss the current and upcoming trends in building enclosure performance and evaluation. \nThe event includes a continental breakfast\, lunch\, and snacks. As in previous years\, there will be Continuing Education Credits and a raffle for prizes for attendees who visit all of the vendors and obtain a signature from each.
URL:http://35.169.182.169/event/bec-greater-detroit-symposium/
LOCATION:VisTaTech Center\, 18600 Haggerty Road\, Livonia\, MI\, 48152\, United States
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SUMMARY:Data-Driven Success: How Being a Data-Centric Organization Maximizes the Value of Digital Technologies
DESCRIPTION:Is your organization getting the most out of the digital technologies it deploys and data generated on your projects? This session will share the latest findings of a study conducted by NIBS and Dodge Construction Network\, that examines how nearly 200 owners in the US construction industry are deploying digital technologies on their projects and the value generated by their use. The session will also look at the degree to which these owners have transformed their policies and practices to make their organization more data-centric\, which allows them to significantly increase the project benefits that these technologies provide and their ability to leverage project data throughout their organization\, from capital planning to design and construction to asset management and operations. \nFor owners\, this session provides a roadmap for getting more out of their digital technology investments and the kinds of data-centric policies and practices they need to consider. For architects\, engineers and contractors\, the session also offers great examples of how to transform their own organizations to become more data-centric\, but more importantly\, it reveals how to build a competitive advantage through a better understanding of their clients’ digital and data needs\, and how to stay relevant as the industry continues down the path of digital transformation. \nJoin Roger Grant\, VP of Building Technology with NIBS\, and Dr. Donna Laquidara-Carr\, Industry Insights Research Director at Dodge Construction Network\, as they discuss the top findings and recommendations from the study and what they mean to everyone engaged in planning\, design\, construction and operations of buildings and civil infrastructure in this digital age.
URL:http://35.169.182.169/event/data-driven-success-how-being-a-data-centric-organization-maximizes-the-value-of-digital-technologies/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250819T140000
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SUMMARY:Adventures in Hygrothermal Modeling
DESCRIPTION:Hygrothermal modeling\, the analysis of heat and moisture transport through building enclosure assemblies\, reveals many of the climate-specific building science secrets that are key to durable design of walls and roofs and other assemblies. Debunking rules of thumb and avoiding answers of “it depends” – data and analysis can reveal exactly how many inches of a certain insulation are required\, exactly what perm-rating will optimize an assembly\, and what kind of havoc a reservoir cladding system can create. Case studies will be shown that demonstrate when perm rating matters and when it does not\, the impact of roof membrane color and the risks of “cool roofing\,” and when HT (high-temp) rated membranes are actually required. This presentation’s ulterior motive is to convince the audience that every architecture firm should be doing in-house hygrothermal modeling as an integral component of climate-specific\, durable\, and resilient design.
URL:http://35.169.182.169/event/adventures-in-hygrothermal-modeling/
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