2025 Smart Buildings Exchange Recap

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Lighting Design Labs Presents: Demystifying Heat Pumps 8/24 and 8/31

August 2, 2023 By SBC staff

Demystifying Heat Pumps (2-day event)
Learn the inside scoop on applying and operating heat pumps as we interview Jonathan Moscatello with Daikin and Chris Mckinney from Carrier’s distribution organization. They will answer the tough questions and give guidance on how best to assist customers with a trouble-free heat pump experience.

Demystifying Heat Pumps – Part 1 https://www.lightingdesignlab.com/education/event/demystifying-heat-pumps-part-1
Thu, August 24 | 10am-11am | FREE

Demystifying Heat Pump – Part 2 https://www.lightingdesignlab.com/education/event/demystifying-heat-pumps-part-2
Thu, August 31 | 10am-11am | FREE

Filed Under: Education & Training, Webinars

Join us for the Smart Buildings Exchange (SBX) In-Person Event!

July 28, 2023 By SBC staff

Planning Your Strategy for Smart & Efficient Upgrades

Thursday, August 17th | 8am-1:30pm Pacific Time
Pacific Tower | Seattle, WA

Please join us in-person in Seattle for the third and final day of Smart Buildings Exchange (SBX) 2023 on Thursday, August 17th! The event is free and includes a buffet-style networking lunch and will feature leaders from Washington State, the City of Seattle, and other industry influencers discussing Washington State’s building performance standards, newly developed City of Seattle building emission standards, innovative financing mechanisms, and tools and resources to help building owners and managers plan, finance, and act to accelerate the pace of change in meeting these state and city requirements.

The agenda for the day is below. Space for the in-person event is limited and registration closes on August 14th, so please register here now if you would like to attend: https://sbx2023_in-person.eventbrite.com/ (Note: this registration is separate from the August 15-16 virtual conference registration)

8:00am – 9:00am           Registration & Networking
9:00am – 9:05am           Welcome by Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell
9:05am – 10:00am         Building & Emission Performance Standards
10:00am – 10:50am       Planning for Performance Compliance
10:50am -11:00am          Networking Break
11:00am – 12:00pm       Project Financing Options & Resources
12:00pm – 12:30pm      Taking Action – Case Studies
12:30pm – 1:30pm         Complimentary Buffet Lunch

As an incentive for attending the in-person event, we will randomly select a grand prize winner of a $250 gift voucher to the beautiful Suncadia Resort in Cle Elum, WA (can be used at any U.S. Hyatt property). Ten more lucky attendees will win Amazon gift cards. Register now to secure your spot and then attend in-person to be entered into the drawing!

Register now!

 

Filed Under: Education & Training, Featured Event, SBC News, SBX

Seattle 2030 District Education Event: Green Your Business Program 8/22

July 26, 2023 By SBC staff

The Seattle 2030 District hosts Seattle Public Utilities Green Your Business Program for our 2023 Education series. The Green Your Business Program offers free tools and assistance to help Seattle area businesses conserve resources and prevent pollution.
Come learn about opportunities to reduce waste, prevent water pollution, and save on water use in your buildings. You will also hear from program participants about how the Green Your Business Program has helped them save money.

Register now for August 22nd 12-1PM via Zoom

This is a FREE event!

Filed Under: Education & Training, Featured Event, Webinars

SBX2023 Session Highlight: Being Smart About Variable Occupancy

July 26, 2023 By SBC staff

Join us virtually for the Smart Buildings Exchange (SBX) 2023 Being Smart About Variable Occupancy session on August 15th from 1:00 – 2:30 pm PT. Tom Marseille (Sazan Group) will moderate the discussion between Craig Engelbrecht (LONG Building Technologies), Zixiao Pan (Butlr), Jay Martin (Overcast Innovations), and Cindy Zhu (Prescriptive Data). You don’t want to miss this session — register now!

Session description
Whether you are in Seattle, Austin, Boston, or Philadelphia the hybrid work environment is the new normal. While building occupancy rates vary by location – and certainly by day of the week – the challenge of efficiently lighting. heating, cooling, and ventilating space is increasingly complicated. Should a building with 45% occupancy consume the same resources as one that previously had an 80% occupancy rate? Should this rekindle the concept of EUI per occupant versus EUI per SF as a metric? This session will explore the complexities of variable occupancy rates and how smart technology and practices can help building owners and operators manage resources and consistently meet health and comfort standards of their occupants.

Register for free today!

 

Filed Under: Education & Training, Featured Event, SBX, Webinars

SBX2023 Session Highlight: Data in Context

July 18, 2023 By SBC staff

Join us virtually for the Smart Buildings Exchange (SBX) 2023 Data in Context session on August 15th from 10:30 am – 12:00 pm PT. Josh Felperin (alpscontrols.com) will moderate the discussion between Jason Hyatt (Puget Sound Energy), Reed Powell (MacDonald-Miller) and Pete Segall (ATS Automation). You don’t want to miss this session — register now!

Session description
Almost all buildings have the capability to generate volumes of operational data and many also deploy fault detection technology to alert operators of problems. Unfortunately, too often there isn’t sufficient context for that fault to properly diagnosis causation or what solutions to deploy to fix it. This condition can be particularly problematic for building owners and managers that don’t have the in-house expertise often found at enterprise scale entities. For these managers, the challenge is to find the right resources to put their operational data into context and do so affordably. This session will explore examples of how to put affordable solutions in place to properly put data in context.

Register for free today!

 

Filed Under: Education & Training, Featured Event, SBX, Webinars

Pump System Fundamentals (PSF) Course hosted by Seattle City Light & NEEA 8/9

July 17, 2023 By SBC staff

Smart Buildings Center will be hosting Hydraulic Institute/Pump Systems Matter staff from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., on Wednesday, August 9, for a live, instructor-led event, co-sponsored by Seattle City Light and BetterBricks.

The Pump System Fundamentals Live Instructor-Led

Course is a training designed to educate attendees about the fundamentals of pump and system design.

Topics include system hydraulics and calculations, pump and system curves, system components, factors affecting reliability and energy consumption, and control.

Learn more with this informational flyer. Interested in attending? Register here! Don’t miss out on a special 25% discount using the code below.

Filed Under: Education & Training, Featured Event, Resources, SBC News

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