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🎙️New from the Buildings + Beyond podcast... 🔸Career Diaries – What’s It Like Working as an Accessibility Consultant?🔸 🎧 WHERE TO LISTEN Online: https://lnkd.in/eExy2jTA Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/enFExt_V Spotify: https://lnkd.in/eFfi5DTB Accessibility consultants work at the intersection of architecture and social justice. It’s much more than checking the boxes on accessibility requirements of laws and codes; it takes precision, dedication, and creativity to solve problems and remove physical barriers to access that have historically marginalized people with disabilities. To mark the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in July, we invited three members of SWA's Accessibility team on the podcast to talk about their unique career paths and the important work they do. Thank you to our guests Carlos Caballero S.A., Jeffrey R. Heitert, and Jennifer Low—who, combined, have almost 40 years of experience! 🙌 And thank you to our host Kelly Westby! 👏 #Accessibility #AmericansWithDisabilitiesAct #ADA #AccessibleDesign #AccessibleBuildings

Grab a spot at this free online event with SWA's Dylan Martello and other electrification experts!⚡

We love to see Massachusetts at No. 1 on the RESNET Honor Roll of States! 🏆👏   In Massachusetts, 98% of new homes were Home Energy Rating System (HERS®) Index Rated in 2023 (compared to 73% in No. 2 state Arizona).   However, this comes as no surprise... Under new energy codes adopted across the state, all new residential and commercial construction (and some renovations and additions) are required to have a HERS score showing a certain level of energy efficiency.    The highest score that new homes can earn is 52 (down from 55 in 2022). 📉    In communities that have adopted the most stringent Specialized Code, the HERS score limit is even lower and dependent on climate zone and use of fossil fuels.    Check out this map from the State of Massachusetts showing the adoption of various energy codes across the state: https://lnkd.in/dmCQf7bS [PDF] Massachusetts sets a great example for how states can reduce operational carbon emissions from new and newly renovated buildings. Several municipalities are working to address embodied carbon emissions from building materials as well. In need of a registered HERS Rater for your next residential project? Contact SWA! swinter.com/contact-us #EnergyCode #EnergyEfficiency #RESNET #HERS #Massachusetts

#Hiring alert!⚡SWA is looking for an innovative Senior Energy #Engineer with professional mechanical and HVAC experience. 📍 Location: New York City 🏙️ Role Impact: You will conduct traditional energy audits, lead development and implementation of energy management projects that enhance building efficiency and sustainability, as well as manage decarbonization feasibility studies and provide retrofit consulting services for clients working to meet carbon-emission reductions as mandated by New York City Local Law 97. If you're passionate about energy efficiency and decarbonization and have a track record of technical leadership, come work with us! Apply via LinkedIn 👇 or at swinter.com/careers. Antonia Calzetti, SWA's talent acquisition manager, is available to answer your questions. Send us a message on LinkedIn! #EngineeringJobs #EnergyJobs #BuiltEnvironmentJobs #NewYorkCityJobs

📢 We are #hiring! SWA is looking for a Building Systems Consultant in the New York City area to help conduct on-site inspections, testing, and verification for #PassiveHouse projects. If you have experience field verifying building projects in North America, especially for green certifications or code compliance, we want to hear from you! This consultant will: 🔸Articulate building science principles and green building program requirements to project teams, including owners, architects, engineers, construction managers, and installers 🔸Train contractors and trade professionals in high-performance construction techniques 🔸Manage projects by developing schedules, tracking milestones, and overseeing compliance with Passive House criteria ...and more! Apply at swinter.com/careers or below via LinkedIn. 👇 Have questions about this role? Reach out to Antonia Calzetti, SWA's talent acquisition manager! #PassiveHouseJobs #SustainabilityJobs #BuildingScienceJobs #FieldVerifier

When the Winthrop Center project began, the largest #PassiveHouse building in the world was 270,000 square feet. Scaling up the Passive House standard for Winthrop Center, at more than 800,000 square feet and located in Boston's cold climate, was a big task. This video from Suffolk Construction gives an overview of how the team achieved this sky-high goal. Hear from leaders on the project team, including SWA's Lois B. Arena, PE. Amazing work from MP Boston, Handel Architects, Suffolk Construction, DeSimone Consulting Engineering, WSP, and the SWA team! 👏👏👏

#FitwelV3 Reminder❗Monday, July 15 is the last day to register new projects under Fitwel v2.1. Fitwel Certification System has instructions to register and submit payment by this date. 👇    Starting July 16, all new projects will transition to Fitwel v3. ✔️

We just released a long-awaited episode from the Buildings + Beyond podcast... 🧐 Your Top 10 Passive House Questions, Answered - PART 2 On the very first episode of Buildings + Beyond released in July 2018, we asked Lois B. Arena, PE to answer the most frequently asked questions at the time about #PassiveHouse buildings. This became one of our most popular episodes of all time! We invited Lois back along with B+B producer Dylan Martello—who both work on first-of-their-kind largescale Passive House projects—to revisit those 10 questions with host Robb Aldrich. What has stayed the same, and what has changed in 6 years? Their discussion covers: ✔️ Cost premiums ✔️ Windows ✔️ Ventilation ✔️ Code conflicts ✔️ And much more Thank you to our episode sponsor, Passive House Accelerator! 🎧 CLICK TO LISTEN Our website: https://lnkd.in/eYQ7AEHn Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/egWZ5FtB Spotify: https://lnkd.in/eqTb9bEH

Congratulations 👏👏👏 to all the winners of the Built Environment Plus and Massachusetts Clean Energy Center Embodied Carbon Reduction Challenge! Together, the 16 projects in the challenge reduced embodied carbon emissions by a total of ~25K metric tons—the same as the carbon sequestered in 410K+ tree seedlings grown for 10 years. 🌳 We loved learning about the cost-effective and replicable strategies from each project team. A special congrats to our team of sustainability consultants who earned a runner-up prize for their submission, Building 7 of Northland Newton Development in Newton, MA: Shari Rauls, Alex Guerrieri, M.Sci, (spot them in the group photo!) Dylan Martello, Joanna Grab, Kai Starn, Karla Butterfield, Stephen Moore - aAIA, CPHC®, LEED AP 🍾 Thank you to Shari Rauls for sharing lessons we learned from the challenge during a panel at the Northeast Embodied Carbon Summit in Boston. 🙌 #EmbodiedCarbon #ReduceCarbonEmissions #Decarbonization

The Atrium at Sumner designed by Studio Libeskind is now open in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn! 🎀✂️ Built on an underutilized section of the Sumner Houses campus, the building adds nearly 200 affordable apartments to the development that are reserved for low-income seniors and those who formerly experienced homelessness. Among its many features, the Atrium offers vibrant, inclusive spaces designed to enhance the quality of life of its senior residents—and it is projected to use up to 70% less energy than the average New York apartment. Congratulations to the entire project team, including Studio Libeskind, Urban Builders Group, Ltd, RiseBoro Community Partnership, Selfhelp Community Services, and Lettire Construction Corp. 🙌 SWA is proud to be the building enclosure consultant for the Atrium at Sumner! 🧐 Learn more: Studio Libeskind case study https://lnkd.in/eZ5t-iwA The Architect's Newspaper coverage https://lnkd.in/e7M3avrf #AffordableHousing #SeniorHousing #SustainableHousing #BuildingEnclosures