Multifamily Buildings 2008 Conference

Achieving Energy Efficiency in Multifamily Buildings: New Opportunities

The premier conference on energy efficiency in multifamily buildings in North America offers a resource-rich, interdisciplinary setting for professionals to exchange their research results, analytic tools, and technologies, and their experiences with energy saving program designs and strategies in multifamily housing.

Policy-makers, program implementers and evaluators, property managers, developers, engineers, architects, utilities and others take on the interdependencies, conflicts and synergies of meeting challenges of housing affordability, climate change and sustainability in multifamily buildings.  Sessions will be offered in each of seven areas:

1. Statewide and Regional Energy Efficiency Portfolios: How Do Multifamily Programs Fit In?
2. Integrating Energy Efficiency Resource Acquisition and Market Transformation Strategies in the Multifamily Building Sector
3. Benchmarking and Measuring Change in Total Energy Intensity in Multifamily Buildings: Measurement and Verification Successes and Challenges
4. Opportunities for Advanced Building Technologies and Renewable Energy in Multifamily Buildings
5. Workforce Development and Green Collar Jobs in Product Development, Manufacturing, Building Assessment, Design, Installation, Commissioning, Building Operations and Property Management
6. New Construction & Gut Rehab: Pathways for Achieving ENERGY STAR^® and LEED in Multifamily Buildings
7. Health & Safety Challenges Associated with Retrofitting or Constructing MFB Buildings

The Conference begins at 8:00 AM Monday, July 21 and finishes on Wednesday afternoon. It will include plenary and breakout sessions, with panels, training workshops, roundtables, and poster sessions, with ample opportunities for networking also included in the $595.00 registration fee.

Presentations will be available to all registrants on a CD and will be posted in the participants’ area of AEA’s website after the conference.

On-Line Registration Opens April 1st, 2008.

Click here for information on sponsor and exhibitor opportunities, and to register.