October Forum: Sustainable Renovation

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Sustainable Rehab:  Simple to Complex Fixes of Existing Buildings   Many people feel that a moderate or gut rehab needs to be expensive and include high tech devices; indeed, some simple rehab jobs save so much, they would be considered deep energy retrofits, although their cost is low to moderate.  Conversely, there are rehabs that are trying to approach Passive House Standards that are interesting and will make the buildings nearly off-grid.   In this presentation, two of GreenHomeNYC’s former Board Chairs show the simple to the complex, and will open the floor to your rehab questions.   Presenters: Bob Gardella, Association for Energy Affordability   F.L. Andrew Padian, PadianNYC F.L. Andrew Padian is a private Building Science Consultant with 35 years of experience in the unique building science of multifamily buildings. He has performed detailed energy analysis on thousands of buildings across the country. Mr. Padian is a frequent contributor to energy and sustainable publications, and has spoken at numerous conferences across the country. Previously, he was Vice President for Energy Initiatives for The Community Preservation Corporation (CPC), where he worked in the implementation of the Green Financing Initiative (GFI) and NYC’s Sandy Recovery Program (Build it Back). Prior to CPC, Andy started the Multifamily Buildings Division and re-opened the NYC Office for Steven Winter Associates (SWA). He was also Director of Engineering and Training for the Association for Energy Affordability (AEA), and toiled in the NYC Mayor’s Energy Office and the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development. He lives in NYC, and is involved in many sustainable causes there, including GreenHomeNYC (Board Member), the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (Vice Board Chair) and the Clinton Community Garden (Chairperson).   This forum is open to the public! . Date: Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015 Time: 6:30-8:00pm Location: Knoll Showroom, 1330 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019 . RSVP here! .