Get Your Building in Order: The Value of Strategic Sequencing

Recent shifts in the commercial building market, including increasingly stringent codes and standards, make it more critical than ever to future-proof your building by thoughtfully sequencing upgrades from a whole-building perspective. Using data from recent Northwest case studies, this one-hour webinar will help building owners, designers, and operators maximize cost and energy savings by:

• Demonstrating how to strategically sequence building upgrades in a way that maximizes total-building value.
• Introducing proven, high-performance technologies applicable to retrofits and new construction.

By adopting these approaches, building professionals will be able to meet current and emerging building performance standards (including the Washington State Clean Building Standard), plan improvements that save time, money, and energy, and enhance occupant health, comfort, well-being, and productivity.

Presenters:

Heather Burpee, M.Arch., EDAC:

Heather Burpee is a nationally recognized scholar in building energy efficiency, decarbonization, and high performance buildings. Her work bridges research, practice, and education with collaboration between faculty, practitioners, and students. She leads major national research initiatives that develop roadmaps for achieving deep energy and resiliency goals and has experience working directly with design teams establishing and realizing performance-related goals. As part of her commitment to furthering knowledge in the arena of High Performance Buildings, she leads the development of professional education curricula including AIA Materials Matter, and AIA Getting to Zero. Heather is a Pacific Northwest native and received her Master of Architecture degree from the UW College of Built Environments and her undergraduate degree in biology from Whitman College.

Christopher Meek, FAIA, IES

Chris is a Professor of Architecture at the University of Washington and Director of the Center for Integrated Design and the Integrated Design Lab (UW IDL) at the University’s College of Built Environments. His research focuses on the integration of natural systems in building design to improve indoor environmental quality and building energy efficiency. Prof. Meek is nationally recognized in the area of daylighting, integrated lighting design, and building energy performance research. Over the past decade. Prof. Meek has worked with the City of Seattle Office of Sustainability and Environment on the decarbonization of existing buildings as part of the Seattle Building Tune-Up Accelerator program and other existing-building energy improvement programs. His research has been funded by the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance, the National Science Foundation, the US Department of Energy, the Illuminating Engineering Society, the Bullitt Foundation, and the American Institute of Architects. Prof. Meek teaches graduate and undergraduate level courses on building design and technology at the UW Department of Architecture. He is co-author of two books and numerous peer-reviewed articles and technical publications.

Michael Hatten, P.E.

Michael (Mike) Hatten, P.E. is a principal mechanical and energy engineer at Solarc Energy Group. Over a 40-year career, he has garnered recognition as an expert energy modeler, excellent and creative designer, experienced and grounded commissioning provider, and inspirational energy educator. His design and analysis experience has focused on energy efficiency retrofits and upgrades to existing buildings. Over the past 25 years, Mike has worked closely with the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) to support the market initiatives addressing energy performance of existing buildings including healthcare, grocery, and commercial real estate.