Remote Learning Calendar

This calendar is intended to serve as a resource for those interested in remote learning events related to commercial energy and facilities management. Submit your event. All submissions moderated by SBC.

Virtual Smart Buildings Week

Virtual/Online

In place of the planned in-person Smart Buildings Exchange 2020 event, we are hosting a free Virtual Smart Buildings Week September 14th-17th, 2020. Each day during the lunch hour, a virtual session […]

Free

What Went Wrong?

Virtual/Online

The IESNA Design Guide 7-1994 reveals how lighting professionals must function simultaneously as engineers, artists, code experts, project coordinators, collaborators, administrators, advocates, and evaluators. Today, the same lighting professionals must also be well-versed in the emerging technologies that lighting is expanding into or serving as infrastructure for: IoT, smart buildings, light and health, horticultural lighting, […]

Free

Ask the Lighting Experts: What 1:1 Replacement Means for Energy Savings and Light Quality

Virtual/Online

There’s a lot of buzz about the benefits of luminaire level lighting controls (LLLC), from space flexibility to simplicity of installation and beyond. Now, a new research study shows LED retrofits with luminaire level lighting controls have the potential for big energy savings and high quality of light – but without the big price tag. […]

Free

Power Over Ethernet Online

Virtual/Online

The digital nature of LED technology brings illumination and IT together, allowing lighting systems to participate in the Internet of Things. Why use Power over Ethernet (PoE)? Time and cost savings – Reduce time and expense of installation when compared to typical high voltage installation; there is not an actual need to hire an Electrical […]

Free

Networked Lighting Controls for Heathcare Environments

Virtual/Online

Lighting controls offer the opportunity to balance the visual environment, enhance space flexibility, and improve user satisfaction while saving significant amounts of energy, and improving maintenance cycles. Designing and implementing high quality control systems can also help to differentiate contractors and designers in a competitive marketplace. This class will build on the foundation of our […]

Free

Planning for Resilience in Multifamily Housing: A Portfolio-Wide Approach

Virtual/Online

Multifamily building owners across the country are facing critical threats from a range of natural hazards. Now is the time do important resilience planning. This webinar will provide participants with real world resiliency planning frameworks that can serve as models for property owners and managers. Panelists will delve into topics including how to make the […]

Free

Scaling Impact: Multi-Building Approaches to Zero Energy Ready

Virtual/Online

Hear about pioneering developments that are integrating energy efficiency, waste heat, renewable energy, and grid interaction across multiple buildings. This webinar will explore best practices on achieving cost savings and carbon reductions at scale. Speakers: Brad Liljequist and Nick Edney, Catalyst project; Barb Frommell and Laura Rip, National Western Center project; Shanti Pless and Ben […]

Free

Climate Risk Assessments: Commercial Buildings & Portfolio Resilience

Virtual/Online

Commercial real estate property owners are utilizing unique strategies to protect their assets against extreme weather events by evaluating building sites for resilience. This webinar will explore a variety of strategies to address climate-related risks and identify cost-effective strategies and improvements to protect occupants and assets from short and long-term risk.

Free

HVAC Retrofit Approaches for Savings and Returns

Virtual/Online

This webinar will introduce the most common and cost-effective HVAC retrofits being implemented in buildings, including those related to reducing the spread of COVID-19 and other viruses. Speaker: David Ward, President, Energy Engineering and Design, Inc.

$79

Advanced Lighting Technologies

Virtual/Online

This webinar will highlight advanced lighting technologies and the energy savings and occupant productivity benefits they can provide by covering best practices, common pitfalls, and the latest market offerings and trends. Speakers: Chris Wolgamott, Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance; Armando Berdiel, Lighting Design Lab; Doug Paton, DesignLights Consortium

$79

Smart Buildings Exchange

Virtual/Online

Throughout the built environment, new technologies are connecting building systems and occupants in ways that generate new and exciting opportunities. From enabling buildings to perform for occupants and owners in previously unimaginable ways, to leveraging buildings to accelerate smart cities and the clean energy transition for a cleaner and healthier planet, the opportunities are countless […]

Free

The Future of Building Occupancy

Virtual/Online

Safety, Efficiency and Sustainability in a Post-COVID World The Smart Buildings Center invites you to attend this important discussion on the future of building occupancy. As you may or may not know, […]

Free

2021 LIGHTFAIR® International Post-Show Webinar

Virtual/Online

LIGHTFAIR® International is the industry event where everyone--from huge conglomerates to small tech-firm startups--come to display innovative new ideas that are changing how we illuminate and connect to the world around us. Following […]

Free

Building Decarbonization and the Future of Washington State

Virtual/Online

November 16, 2021 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Register Join the Puget Sound ASHRAE Government Affairs Committee and Washington Society of Professional Engineers for a panel discussion on decarbonization in Washington State. […]

Free

Rebuilding as a Community in K-12 Schools: COVID and Beyond

Virtual/Online

In this interactive webinar sponsored by Puget Sound Energy and hosted by Smart Buildings Center, panelists with expertise in Strategic Energy Management (SEM) in K-12 schools will discuss their lessons […]

Free

Understanding the WA Clean Buildings Standard

Virtual/Online

The Clean Buildings Standard is one measure Washington State is taking to improve building operational efficiency. Propelling buildings to targeted energy use intensity by building type and size, all commercial […]

Free

Puget Sound EnergyThe Remote Learning Calendar is sponsored by Puget Sound Energy.

If you’re a Puget Sound Energy Commercial Strategic Energy Management customer, check with your PSE Energy Management Engineer for discounted rates to Building Operator Certification events.