Deep Energy Savings in Existing Buildings Summit

New Buildings Institute and the National Trust for Historic Preservation hosted a summit on Deep Energy Savings in Existing Buildings in Boulder, Colorado on September 14-16, 2011. The event convened 80 national experts in critical aspects of energy efficiency including implementation, design, ownership, management, research, policy, and utility programs.

Read the Deep Savings in Existing Buildings: Summit Summary Report detailing the outcomes of the summit (Please note if you have problems with the file, right click the link to the report and then choose "save link as" and save the file to your computer or use a browser other than MSIE)

View the 2/29 webinar presentation slides from Cathy Higgins and Dave Hewitt, NBI; Ric Cochrane, PGL on the summit summary report

View our on-demand webinar recording on the summit summary report via Go To Webinar or our Vimeo posting

Questions and answers from the Deep Energy Savings in Existing Buildings Webinar are also now available.

Summit Details

Input from the summit meeting will be used to help refine tools that are currently under development by NBI and others. As a group, they investigated the commonalities in building characteristics, technical solutions, ownership and delivery structures in an effort to identify repeatable solutions.

Opportunities explored in the summit include:

Moving beyond widgets to system-based solutions.
Identifying technical solution sets that can be implemented without costly energy modeling.
Encouraging energy performance upgrades in all building rehabilitations.
Thinking beyond cash flow to financing opportunities that encourage deep savings in existing buildings.

Deep energy savings in existing buildings is achievable with technologies and practices available today. By carefully addressing specific technical, market and policy barriers, the outcomes of the summit will help develop a framework and tools that can encourage widespread repeatability in the industry.

Additional resources listed below from the event.

Summit Snapshot
Agenda & Participant List
Presentations
Suggested Reading
Tools & Resources
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