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We had a blast 💥 last week at SWA’s annual company meeting where folks from our CT, NYC, DC, and Boston offices met up in New York for a day packed with good snacks, great company, and tons of employee fun facts.    Our presenters shared tools, data, and case studies on some of our favorite topics at SWA: 🌳 Embodied carbon reductions ♻ Retrofits, adaptive reuse, and historic preservation 🏢 Office to residential conversions 💧 Humidity control and variable refrigerant flow (VRF) efficiency  ☑ Data verification and benchmarking     👏Thank you to all the teams who presented their work, to the folks who made the meeting possible, and to all SWA employees for their continued hard work and commitment to improving the built environment.

🔆New from the Buildings + Beyond podcast! This year, the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) was updated through a new consensus-driven development process. Also this year, the International Code Council’s Board of Directors voted to go against consensus and remove mandatory provisions relating to building decarbonization from the 2024 IECC draft. Naturally, this stirred things up... 🥄    Tune in to our latest episode with Gayathri Vijayakumar, a voting member of the 2024 IECC Residential Consensus Committee, and host Robb Aldrich, to find out just what went down. 🍵 🎧 Where to listen...   Our website: https://lnkd.in/eqinJyZ3  Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/exXGwc-H  Spotify: https://lnkd.in/eZ7_ujsU  

April is National #FairHousing Month and marks 56 years of the #FairHousingAct! ⚖️🏠 The Fair Housing Act prohibits discrimination in housing because of race, color, national origin, religion, sex (including gender identity and sexual orientation), disability, and familial status. We’ll be sharing fair housing resources throughout the month—starting with a quick quiz from SWA’s Accessibility team.   Which of the following is NOT covered by the design and construction requirements of the FHA? 〰 New apartment building with 4+ units 〰 4 connected townhomes with internal elevators 〰 Addition of 4+ units to existing apartment building 〰 Gut renovation of historic apartment building with 4+ units 👇 Select your quiz answer below; then find the correct response in the comments.

New from the Buildings + Beyond podcast!🎙️ Which do you choose—electrification⚡or efficiency ⚙️—when it’s impossible to prioritize both due to cost, existing infrastructure, and compliance needs? Tune in to our latest Buildings + Beyond episode with host Robb Aldrich and BlocPower’s Ryan Merkin (also a SWA alum!) to hear their discussion on when to electrify. 🎧 Where to listen: Our website: https://lnkd.in/ebZuyf7a Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/eQZi_CQR Spotify: https://lnkd.in/eSTV6Xyn #EnergyEfficiency #Electrification #AllElectricBuildings

The Louis Armstrong Center is officially LEED Silver certified! 👏🎉 This new visitor center for the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Corona, Queens, contains exhibit space, a jazz room, offices, a reading room, and an extensive archive of Louis Armstrong's recordings, manuscripts, and personal artifacts. The building was designed to achieve LEED certification with features such as green roofing and sustainable building materials. Congratulations to DASNY (Dormitory Authority - State of New York ), Caples Jefferson Architects PC, and SWA's sustainability consultants Nithya Lavu and Sarah Nugent on this project milestone! Photography Credit: Albert Vecerka/ESTO for Caples Jefferson Architects #LEED #SustainableBuildings #NYCBuildings

That's a wrap for BuildingEnergy Boston! ⚡ #BEBOS24 Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth to say hello. And thank you to Northeast Sustainable Energy Association for once again putting together such a great event. Shout out to SWA's Dylan Martello and Shari Rauls for their informative session, Monitored VRF Performance in New Multifamily Buildings, and to Alex Guerrieri, MS for his role as panel moderator! 👏 Forgot to grab a business card? Have questions for our experts? Reach out anytime: https://lnkd.in/eQDAf4bV

SWA's Victoria Lanteigne, Ph.D., WELL AP is on The Construction Record™ podcast with Warren Frey! 🎧 Listen here https://lnkd.in/gFySQjA3 and on major podcast platforms. Their discussion on addressing equity in the design of the built environment covers: 🔸 Community engagement and its role in equity-focused design 🔸 The misconception that embedding equity will always cost more 🔸 How to move past "DEI fatigue" in our industry Download the Building Equity Standard (BEST), a new resource aimed at helping practitioners embed equity in the design of the built environment, at https://lnkd.in/dK5PjqwF. #Equity #DesigningForEquity #Inclusivity #DEI #CommunityEngagement

Experience largescale Passive House design IRL! 🏙️ New York Passive House, Curtis + Ginsberg Architects, and SWA are hosting a free tour of Melrose North in the Bronx. Thank you to SWA's Vicki Yee, CPHD, WELL AP, LEED GA for co-leading this awesome event. #PassiveHouse #SustainableDesign #AffordableHousing

We're heading to Atlanta for the 2024 ACEEE Hot Water Forum & Hot Air Forum! SWA's Kevin McDonald and Nicole Ceci, PE will be on-site to present on the topics below. Say hello if you see them! 👋 🔶 Systems: Variable Refrigerant Flow (VRF) Tuesday, March 12 | Session 3C | Room 206 SWA Speaker: Kevin McDonald This session will cover field validated performance data from multiple electric VRF demonstrations in cold climates. It will also address VRF system operability, refrigerant considerations, and commissioning best practices as seen in the field. 🔶 Bringing Hot Water System Sizing into the 21st Century Thursday, March 14 | Session 8C | Room 206 SWA Speaker: Nicole Ceci This session will focus on how to improve sizing methodologies to include the energy for the uses and for the delivery losses based on modern information about hot water use in multifamily and other commercial buildings. Learn more about #HotWaterHotAir24: https://lnkd.in/e5d7sRX3 Have questions about these topics? Contact SWA: https://lnkd.in/eQDAf4bV

Who's participating in Reimagine Buildings ‘24 this week? 🌎 We can't wait to watch SWA's Lois B. Arena, PE help kick-off the global online event this Thursday, March 7 at noon Eastern Time. #RB24 #PassiveHouse