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Join us for the Smart Buildings Exchange (SBX) In-Person Event!

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Thursday, August 29th | 8am – 1:30pm Pacific Time
Pacific Tower | Seattle, WA

Please join us in-person at the Pacific Tower in Seattle for the third and final day of Smart Buildings Exchange (SBX) 2024 on Thursday, August 29th! The event is free, includes a networking lunch, and will feature leaders from Washington State, Oregon, Colorado, the U.S. Department of Energy, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory discussing how different jurisdictions are structuring building performance standards, and how existing building commissioning can offer an initial path to standard compliance. The day will begin with Opening Remarks from Dawn Lindell, General Manager and CEO of Seattle City Light.

After SBX concludes, please join us at Stoup Brewing (Capitol Hill) from 3:30-5:00 pm for happy hour sponsored by Building Potential!

The agenda for the day is below.

Space for the in-person event is limited and registration closes on August 26th, so please register here now if you would like to attend: https://sbx2024_in-person.eventbrite.com
(Note: this registration is separate from the August 27-28 virtual conference registration)

Register now!

 

SBX Session Highlight: Planning & Implementing Campus-Scale Decarbonization

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Join us virtually for the Smart Buildings Exchange (SBX) 2024 Planning & Implementing Campus-Scale Decarbonization session on August 27th from 1:00 – 2:15 pm PT. Campuses represent unique opportunities and challenges in decarbonizing their operations. This session will bring together voices from experienced practitioners and campus facility managers in healthcare, university, and corporate environments that are well on their way in planning and implementing successful decarbonization efforts. Tom Marseille (Sazan Group) will moderate the discussion between Greg Hough (Western Washington University), Chris Olmsted (Creative Energy), and Baha Sadreddin (Microsoft).

You don’t want to miss this session — register now!


View the full agenda & register for free today!

Event schedule
Day 1 (virtual): August 27th 8:45am-2:15pm Pacific
Day 2 (virtual): August 28th 9am-2:15pm Pacific
Day 3 (in-person, Seattle): August 29th 9am-1:30pm Pacific

SPEER Industry + Policy Workshop 2024

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Join our friends @SPEER and other industry leaders as energy experts gather in Austin for their Industry + Policy Workshop. They will cover all things energy: energy efficiency, demand response and DERs, energy codes, navigating important clean energy policies, local government funding opportunities, and more!

https://eepartnership.org/speer-industry-policy-workshop-2024/

 

SBX Session Highlight: Indoor Environmental Quality – Field Results Inform Operational Practices

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Join us virtually for the Smart Buildings Exchange (SBX) 2024 Indoor Environmental Quality – Field Results Inform Operational Practices session on August 27th from 10:45 am – 12:00 pm PT. This is a reprise of a world-class panel of experts featured at SBX 2023 for a follow-up conversation of field investigations of indoor environmental quality and how that information can inform building operations that help ensure health, comfort, and productivity in buildings. Christopher Meek with the University of Washington’s Integrated Design Lab will moderate the discussion between IEQ experts Seema Bhangar (US Green Building Council), Vivian Loftness (Carnegie Mellon University), and Stephanie Taylor (Building4Health). You don’t want to miss this session — register now!

View the full agenda & register for free today!

Event schedule
Day 1 (virtual): August 27th 9am-2:15pm Pacific
Day 2 (virtual): August 28th 9am-2:15pm Pacific
Day 3 (in-person, Seattle): August 29th 9am-1:30pm Pacific

CalFlexHub Annual Symposium

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Save the date for the 2024 CalFlexHub Annual Symposium – September 24. This year’s symposium is returning as a hybrid event, offering in-person attendance at Berkeley Lab and remote participation via Zoom Events. The 2024 symposium will be a full day, including tours of the world’s most advanced, integrated building and grid technologies testbed, FLEXLAB®. It will also feature keynote speakers from the California Energy Commission, the U.S. Department of Energy, and more, and an opportunity to meet leading innovators in price-response automation technologies. Session topics will span the demand flexibility ecosystem and enable attendees to learn more about what interests them most. As always, this is a no-cost event.

The event is intended for utility and industry leaders, technology innovators, government representatives, workforce development professionals, community-based organizations, and researchers. We invite you to join a unique opportunity to learn, engage with, and contribute to advancing the future of California’s energy system.

Since its launch, CalFlexHub has been at the forefront of assessing research pathways, developing metrics, and accelerating the commercial adoption of load flexible technologies. This symposium aims to showcase the program’s achievements; offer updates on CalFlexHub’s portfolio of projects; foster discussions on the latest policies, research, and technological developments in load flexibility; and facilitate presentations from sector leaders. To support and accelerate the commercial adoption of load flexible technologies, the symposium focuses on solution-centered conversations designed to address the various barriers to scaled adoption, emphasizing advancing these technologies and standards equitably.

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SBX Session Highlight: Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings as a Utility Resource

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Rapidly reducing the carbon content of utility resources while maintaining resource adequacy and grid reliability is a challenge for electric utilities across the country. Programs for demand flexibility and particularly grid-interactive efficient buildings (GEBs) will be key to successfully integrating large amounts of renewable energy into the grid. This panel, featuring Albert Chiu (Pacific Gas & Electric Company), Jingjing Liu (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Mark Martinez (Southern California Edison), and Brittainy Pond (Puget Sound Energy), will discuss the efforts by a number of utility leaders across the United States in deploying demand flexibility/GEBs as a central strategy for their future.

Register for free today!


View the full agenda & register for free today!

Event schedule
Day 1 (virtual): August 27th 9am-2:15pm Pacific
Day 2 (virtual): August 28th 9am-2:15pm Pacific
Day 3 (in-person, Seattle): August 29th 9am-1:30pm Pacific

Contact Us

Smart Buildings Center
Pacific Tower
1200 12th Ave. S., Suite 110
Seattle, WA 98144

206-538-0832

[email protected]

Smart Buildings Center is a project collaboration with Building Potential