Puget Sound Hosts MIT Forum on High Performance Buildings (Energy Priorities)

Super-efficient buildings can cut costs and carbon, generating generous goodwill -- but can owners justify the price? An MIT Enterprise Forum event scheduled for 8 November 2006 in Bellevue WA will explore this subject. Panelists represent building owners, energy efficiency experts, commercial lenders, and researchers.

Note: The event has taken place. This article includes a link to an audio recording.

by Denis Du Bois
October 23, 2006

Big buildings have big appetites for energy, with massive potential to conserve it -- and even to produce their own renewable energy. What are the options, and the economics? Where are the best business opportunities?

EVENT
Podcast of "Sky High: Rising Energy Costs and the Growing Demand for High Performance Buildings" Note: This event took place on Nov. 8, 2006. The full program is available as a podcast

Technologies and brilliant ideas abound. Are "smart buildings" the next big software or networking play? Will the green buildings of 2026 generate all their own energy from the sun or wind?

MIT Enterprise Forum will host a dinner panel event in Bellevue on November 8, 2006, for an exploration of the trends, players, policies and technologies that are shaping the energy-smart buildings of tomorrow.

Moderator:
Nik Blosser, President of Sustainable Industries Journal publisher Celilo Group

Panel:
Ash Awad, VP Energy Services, McKinstry
Michael Brambley, Ph.D., Energy Sciences & Technology Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Mark Weed, President, Egis Real Estate
Dave Williams, CEO, Shorebank Pacific

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