Entries by Daniel Evans

Some Thoughts about BuildingEnergy Boston 2024

By Matt Root

As always, NESEA’s BuildingEnergy Boston conference was filled with thoughtful discussions and lots of positive energy.

Two sessions that stood out the most were rooted in what attracts me to the NESEA community. The first was presented by Rachel White, CEO of Byggmeister Design/Build, and Michael Hindle, Principal, Passive To Positive, on The Deep Energy Retrofit Controversy Revisited. As a follow up discussion to last year’s keynote, Why We Stopped Doing Deep Energy Retrofits (presented by  Rachel with Brendan Kavanagh, Byggmeister co-owner), it sparked some lively feedback. The session was passionate, insightful, and thoughtful.

March 28, 2024 by

YDS Healing Ground

It was a perfect autumn day for the Yale Divinity School (YDS) Living Village Ground Healing Ceremony. IES team member Carlye Woodard was on hand  for the well-attended event, which launched the construction phase of this much anticipated project with discussion and questions, prayer and recognition, as well as food and drinks to mark the celebration. YDS Dean Gregory E. Sterling suggested, with a playful nod to Joni Mitchell’s iconic lyrics, that the school is endeavoring to tear up a parking lot and build a paradise.

October 30, 2023 by

Advocacy is Critical for Advancing Regenerative Materials

This essay by Charley Stevenson, founder and principal of IES, is excerpted from The Regenerative Materials Movement: Dispatches from Practitioners, Researchers, and Advocates (Ecotone Publishing, 2023). Just published, this new book from @International Living Future Institute features diverse thought leaders across the sustainability industry sharing their stories, experience, research and insights through a series of dispatches. Together, they help sketch a bold vision for overcoming the drawbacks of our current materials economy. To learn more, visit https://store.living-future.org/

September 11, 2023 by

We’re Hiring! – Experienced React Software Developer

Support the evolution of Red2Green, a SaaS application that allows project teams of architects/designers, materials researchers and trade partners nationwide to more efficiently manage their projects. Use your skills as a React developer, and influence a range of priorities including feature design, end user training, application support and troubleshooting. We need a skilled, personable, ethical and motivated developer who can join our team in North Adams, MA, where you will help broaden the capabilities and add new features to our popular application.

August 3, 2023 by

Better Materials Managed Digitally

IES’s Matt Root recently presented Better Materials Managed Digitally at the BE+ Building Tech Forum at The Foundry, Cambridge, MA. The theme was Accelerating Change in the Built Environment, with five-minute talks from a diverse group of innovators showcasing building technology advancing  this vision–including our own Red2Green materials management platform.

Click through to watch the video!

June 21, 2023 by

Bunker Hill—Committed to Comfort, Conservation and Carbon Cutting

Charlestown’s Bunker Hill Housing Redevelopment project, which broke ground in June 2023 after an eight-year community planning process, promises 21st century comfort, energy efficiency and carbon reducing performance in its new mixed-income residential community. Located in an historic waterfront neighborhood, Boston’s oldest, much of this 1940s-era federal public housing site had fallen into disrepair. Now, in a public-private partnership, the team of Leggat McCall Properties and Joseph J. Corcoran Co., in partnership with the Boston Housing Authority and the Charlestown Resident Alliance, has developed and launched a $1.4 billion plan to replace 42 aging buildings with 15 new residential buildings, plus retail and community space. To strengthen the sense of community, the project features extensive green spaces and improved connections to the surrounding area.

May 31, 2023 by

Integrated Eco Strategy and HPDC Partner to Fight Toxic Chemicals in Buildings

NORTH ADAMS, MA—The recent East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment underscored the peril that chemicals such as vinyl chloride—used to make PVC pipe, wire and cable coatings, and myriad other products—pose for communities across the U.S. as well as throughout the manufacturing supply chain, potentially menacing company workers, their fenceline neighborhoods, builders and installers. At the same time, colleges, corporations and property owners recognize that buildings with fewer chemical toxins are not only healthier, but good business—attracting students, employees and tenants while reducing occupant illness and absenteeism, and lowering hazmat liability during renovations and demolition.

March 20, 2023 by

Announcing the 2022 BE+ Green Building Showcase Displays

The 2022 BE+ Green Building Showcase Award Winners

Both IES’s Charley Stevenson and Matt Root were honored to attend the BE+ 2022 event, which was hosted at Harvard University’s Science and Engineering Complex (SEC).

Read More to learn about this years award winners and see all of the Green Buildings showcased.

November 8, 2022 by

Join IES at the 2022 BE+ Green Building Showcase

IES’s Charley Stevenson and Matt Root will be on hand as Built Environment Plus holds its 2022 Green Building Showcase on Oct. 27, 5-9:30 p.m. The event happens at Harvard University’s Science and Engineering Complex (SEC), the BE+ 2021 Green Building of the Year. IES was Living Building Challenge consultant for SEC, researching 5,600 building materials using IES’s healthier materials management platform, Red2Green. Join us for a night of project boards, presentations, discussions and awards for everyone involved in designing, operating and constructing the built environment, which is sponsored in part by Red2Green.

October 12, 2022 by