2025 Smart Buildings Exchange Recap

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Smart Buildings Center Partner Wins National Award

October 24, 2024 By SBC staff

The Smart Buildings Center congratulates our partner, the Greater Seattle Chapter of IFMA, on winning the National Large Chapter of the Year award from IFMA national. SBC Director of Education and Training, Melanie Danuser, serves as Vice President of Education for the chapter and was present at the annual World Workplace conference to accept the award with other chapter leaders. Read on for the announcement from the chapter:

The Greater Seattle Chapter of IFMA is thrilled to announce we have won the Large Chapter of the Year award!

Thank you to @IFMA for the honor and a huge shoutout to our board for their phenomenal work. The chapter has truly launched from COVID era struggle to a facility management powerhouse and we couldn’t be more proud. A special thank you to all of our sustaining and program sponsors who make what we do possible.

Keep an eye out for our new event schedule in the coming month for 2025, we’re preparing for an even better year and can’t wait to spend it with all of you!

Filed Under: SBC News

SBX Day 3 LIVE – Recording Now Available!

October 23, 2024 By SBC staff

Did you miss the Day 3 In-Person Presentations at SBX this year? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered! Check out our YouTube channel for the recording, available now! You can also find a playlist of every presentation in case you missed one you were looking forward to. Check out the short description below or click here to get viewing SBX 2024’s biggest moments!

SBX 2024 Day 3 Live

The third and final day of the conference was held in-person in Seattle and featured opening remarks from Dawn Lindell, General Manager and CEO of Seattle City Light, followed by panel discussions with leaders from Washington State, Oregon, Colorado, the U.S. Department of Energy, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on how different jurisdictions are structuring building performance standards, and how existing building commissioning can offer an initial path to standard compliance.

Filed Under: Featured Event, Webinars

New Jobs at NEEA: Sr Program Manager & Sr Product Manager

October 22, 2024 By SBC staff

Our friends at NEEA have some exciting positions opening and are looking for qualified candidates like you! Check out these positions at Linkedin.com/jobs or you can click the job title to be taken directly to the job posting where you can apply.

A little about NEEA:

The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) is an alliance of more than 140 electric and natural gas utilities and energy efficiency organizations working on behalf of Northwest energy consumers to increase the adoption of energy-efficient products services and practices. Since 1997, the region has achieved the equivalent to enough energy to power more than 700,000 Northwest homes each year.

The alliance is powered by harnessing the energy, brainpower, and innovative thinking of motivated professionals like you. NEEA places a high value on diversity, and welcomes individuals from all backgrounds, identities and fields of expertise, with or without previous experience in the energy industry. Are you talented, committed, and motivated? If the answer is yes, we encourage you to apply to help us create a vibrant future for all Northwest communities.

Follow this link to the NEEA website and learn more about the organization.

Sr Program Manager

The Senior Program Manager is the business manager of one or more programs that transform markets for energy efficient products, services, and practices. This role will have a focus on a new Commercial Whole Building Efficiency project aimed at motivating and equipping the commercial building sector to undertake deep energy efficiency and decarbonization retrofits. Working with regional stakeholders, the project will deliver tools and resources that address known barriers to commercial sector engagement and develop a new commercial whole building market transformation program.

The Senior Program Manager is responsible for:

  • Assuring the overall design, planning, resourcing, and execution of assigned market transformation program(s).
  • Leading and operationalizing the overall program strategy while building and managing critical market relationships to implement market transformation programs and is accountable for delivering the associated business results.
  • Effectively collaborating, influencing and navigating challenging issues within Program teams
  • Developing and ensuring timely implementation of program plans against milestones, as well as identifying, escalating, and resolving issues resulting from development efforts

The incumbent will share our deep commitment to diversity and inclusion and advancing practices, strategies and policies that achieve equitable outcomes for all.

Sr Product Manager

The Senior Product Segment Manager – Commercial Buildings contributes to NEEA’s strategic goal of filling the program “pipeline” with new resource efficient products, practices, and services in collaboration with both internal and external stakeholders. This position requires effective planning for the evolution of products through the full lifecycle stages of identification, assessment, confirmation and product readiness for deployment in a full-scale market transformation effort. Working across a wide range of products that use electric power and / or natural gas requires Senior Product Managers to contract with testing labs, industry experts, engineering firms, and other market partners to support the full range of analysis and testing of products.

NEEA’s product management team serves as product experts on assigned product lines, as well as conducting research on emerging technologies and practices that could bring energy and carbon savings and/or grid flexibility benefits for Northwest consumers. They partner closely with NEEA’s Market Transformation Managers and Program Managers and work in cross-functional teams as a key contributor to new and existing Market Transformation Initiatives.

This role will have a focus on a new Commercial Whole Building Efficiency project aimed at motivating and equipping the commercial building sector to undertake deep energy efficiency and decarbonization retrofits. Working with regional stakeholders, the project will deliver tools and resources that address known barriers to commercial sector engagement and develop a new commercial whole building market transformation program.

The Senior Product Segment Manager will share our deep commitment to diversity and inclusion and advancing practices, strategies and policies that achieve equitable outcomes for all.

Filed Under: Jobs

Webinar: Profitable Decarbonization: How to Increase ROI and Strategically Finance Building Upgrades

October 15, 2024 By SBC staff

Presenter: Molly McCabe, Founder, Hayden + Tanner

Decreasing building emissions does not have to decrease your bank account. In fact, when financed strategically, your building upgrades can increase your building’s ROI while achieving even the most aggressive decarbonization goals or local building performance standards. Join commercial real estate finance and capital markets expert Molly McCabe to learn the leading strategies to planning cost-effective building upgrades, identifying and layering all available financing opportunities, and structuring your investments for effective presentation to bankers and other finance and equity partners.

Webinar details:

  • Event listing and registration details
  • NEEA/BetterBricks LinkedIn event post you can engage with and/or repost

Filed Under: Webinars

Net-Zero Preschool Makes Healthy, Mindful HVAC Decisions

October 15, 2024 By SBC staff

Our friends at BetterBricks are taking us back to preschool to show us how health conscious and Net-Zero ambitions are possible in all sectors of building operations and management. Check out the video below for more details about this story:

You can read the whole article at BetterBricks and find many more great ideas and interesting stories.

Filed Under: Resources

FEA, SBC, Building Potential Host Joint Webinar on Building Resilience for Emerging Threats and Natural Hazards

October 8, 2024 By SBC staff

Don’t Be Scared, Be Prepared: A Webinar on Building Resilience for Emerging Threats in Facilities

In an increasingly unpredictable world, the importance of resilience in facilities cannot be overstated. On October 31, 2024, at 12:00 PM ET, FEA, Smart Buildings Center, and Building Potential will come together to host a webinar titled “Don’t Be Scared, Be Prepared: Building Resilience and Preparing Facilities for Emerging Threats and Natural Hazards.”

Speakers Maureen Roskoski (FEA), Melanie Danuser (Building Potential) and Rebecca Sheppard (Smart Buildings Center) will address how organizations will equip themselves with the knowledge and tools needed to enhance their resilience. With expert insights and actionable strategies, attendees will leave with a clear understanding of how to prepare for emerging threats and natural hazards effectively.

Learn more about this exciting LIVE webinar here at FEA: FEA Webinar on Building Resilience for Emerging Threats (feapc.com) or register now with this link!

 

Filed Under: Featured Event

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