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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.

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Why Smart Buildings Virtual Executive Forum: Navigating the New World, How the COVID-19 Crisis Has Strengthened the Case for Smart Buildings Practices & Technologies

Virtual/Online

The COVID-19 crisis has impacted each of us and the world at large in ways that can’t be undone, but it’s also strengthened the case for smart buildings technologies and practices to help mitigate unforeseen crisis, maintain electrical grid reliability, and better manage building operations to meet the needs of tenants, occupants and other stakeholders […]

Free

Interconnected: Bringing Multiple Stakeholders Together to Improve Building Design & Operations

Virtual/Online

Project teams bring various stakeholders together for building projects, but never has it been more vital to have multiple stakeholders sit together than in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Design touches every aspect of the lives of people occupying a space, so cross-disciplinary teams must work together to ensure buildings and designed, constructed and operated […]

Free

Planning the return to the workplace: COVID-19 workshop

Virtual/Online

As states continue to reopen and we move away from the crisis phase of the pandemic, utility managers and supervisors will need to strategically and thoughtfully plan the return to the workplace. Because utility operations are essential, you need to make sure your plan prioritizes employee safety while continuing to safely deliver energy services to […]

New Day, New Way: Workplace Wellness in a Post-Covid World

Virtual/Online

Our goal is to present information that is in-time with what our clients are experiencing in Seattle and the greater region. As we enter the phase of surveying employees for office reentry interest, needs and wants, companies are looking to create and communicate a physical and emotional wellness plan for when the offices open, and […]

Free

Decarbonization Policy Framework: Building Policies

Virtual/Online

Decarbonizing our building stock requires a comprehensive set of actions, occurring in parallel and phased in over time, across different sectors and levels of government. NEEP's Building Decarbonization Public Policy Framework lays out the pathway. A successful transition to zero carbon will require market transformation with advanced technological solutions, and equitable and fair policy mechanisms. […]

AIA – SIGNIFY 06 – Energy Codes: A Facilities Perspective

Virtual/Online

With many business activities currently on hold, we’d like to invite you to participate in our AIA webinar series, Every Thursday at 2:00 PM EST for the next few weeks, where you can earn CEU credits and learn about the latest Trends in lighting!

Free

How to support trade allies throughout the COVID-19 pandemic

Virtual/Online

Trade allies play a vital role in the delivery of utility energy-efficiency programs. And without them, utility demand-side management portfolios would fall flat. In this web conference, we’ll discuss how utilities can support trade allies throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Because of COVID-19, your trade allies have taken a considerable hit to their businesses over the […]

Free

Resilient Buildings in a Time of COVID-19

Virtual/Online

Professor Victoria Hardy, RCFM, will be hosting this webinar on how building and facilities managers can strengthen their response to COVID-19. What are others in the field doing to make their buildings safer and more useful during this time? How can you address this change and prepare for other emergencies before they happen? Moderator: Victoria […]

Free

Tackling the New Normal: Keys for Success After Reopening Buildings

Virtual/Online

As facility professionals begin returning to work during the COVID-19 pandemic, they face new and unprecedented challenges. Overcoming them requires cloud-based technologies that transform work environments and enable teams to be more mobile, agile and productive. Join us for a live course where we’ll discuss the “new normal” with various facilities management professionals who will share their […]

Free
Event Series Passive House 2020: Choose Your Future

Passive House 2020: Choose Your Future

Virtual/Online

Our global pandemic and climate emergency ask: How will you change? What will you choose to do? #PH2020, embraces these tough fundamental questions and provides you with actionable answers. You’ll get the framework for making system switches from best selling author Dan Heath. You’ll achieve clarity about the role of Passive House, in conversation with […]

Free

Boosting utilities’ commercial DSM programs amid COVID-19 impacts: Solution showcase series

Virtual/Online

Many of your commercial and industrial (C&I) customers have reopened their businesses after a long layoff, with harsh financial impacts and often permanently changed operations. How can you support them and meet your demand-side management (DSM) program goals? In this web conference, you’ll hear from utility energy-efficiency services provider Willdan and one of its utility […]

Free

Use microtargeting techniques to achieve your energy-efficiency goals

Virtual/Online

As a result of COVID-19, energy utilities and implementers face uncertainty and risk about whether they can achieve their 2020 demand-side management (DSM) savings targets. They’re also facing the added challenge of offering programs that are safe for customers and employees. There’s been debate about the future of energy-efficiency programs, but T&D World, an online transmission and […]

Building Measures to Take to Prepare for Reopening

Virtual/Online

Join us again on 6/30 at 8 a.m. PDT for Building Measures to Take to Prepare for Reopening Continuing from last month's session, we will look at the intersection of sustainability and health as related to reopening buildings. This online session will include mechanical challenges within your existing system, how technology can run a building […]

Free

Making Electricity Demand Manageable in the Northwest

Virtual/Online

The CTA-2045 Standard and Flexible Demand July 1, 9:30 - 11:00am PST Presented by the NW Energy Coalition Grid-integratable water heaters and other interactive appliances and systems are the leading edge of a coming wave of customer-side resources that will increase energy system efficiency by enabling utilities to manage and shape electricity demand to a degree […]

Free
Event Series Passive House 2020: Choose Your Future

Passive House 2020: Choose Your Future

Virtual/Online

Our global pandemic and climate emergency ask: How will you change? What will you choose to do? #PH2020, embraces these tough fundamental questions and provides you with actionable answers. You’ll get the framework for making system switches from best selling author Dan Heath. You’ll achieve clarity about the role of Passive House, in conversation with […]

Free

Behind-the-Meter Distributed Energy Resources: Best Practices for Integrating DERS into Commercial Buildings

Virtual/Online

This webinar will focus on the strategic integration of DERs in commercial buildings. Join speakers from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and Kaiser Permanente for a discussion of methods and best practices for integrating and optimizing the performance of renewables, thermal energy storage, and battery energy for load flexibility. There will also be a Q&A led […]

Free
Event Series Passive House 2020: Choose Your Future

Passive House 2020: Choose Your Future

Virtual/Online

Our global pandemic and climate emergency ask: How will you change? What will you choose to do? #PH2020, embraces these tough fundamental questions and provides you with actionable answers. You’ll get the framework for making system switches from best selling author Dan Heath. You’ll achieve clarity about the role of Passive House, in conversation with […]

Free

Program Design with Everyone in Mind: Low-Income Solar Program Strategies

Virtual/Online

This webinar will highlight examples of low-income renewable energy programs, including the Solar in Your Community Challenge and the Clean Energy for Low-Income Communities Accelerator, best practices, and discuss DOE’s recently launched National Community Solar Partnership. Speakers: Emily Schapira, Philadelphia Energy Authority; Nate Hausman, Clean Energy States Alliance; Chris Jedd, Denver Housing Authority

Free

The Value of Connected Lighting

Virtual/Online

The commercial lighting market has seen significant shifts, first with the proliferation of LEDs, and now as controls become more sophisticated. As controls progress from a wall switch with a manual on-off control to more advanced controls that incorporate multi-feature sensors and luminaires embedded with controls, lack of understanding, interoperability issues, and often an unclear […]

Free

The Dynamic Duo: Unleash Public Sector Energy Savings with Financing and Technical Assistance

Virtual/Online

Access to financing and technical assistance is key to unlocking the significant energy savings potential within the public sector. For states, local governments, and K-12 stakeholders seeking to reduce costs and meet efficiency goals, financing needs to be customized and simplified through technical assistance. Speakers will discuss how financing products such as energy-as-a-service, energy savings […]

Free

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