BCT Guest Lectures

Guest speakers are a regular feature of the BCT program. Find recorded talks by topic or presenter name. Or, watch a featured presentation here:

TOPICS

Resilient Design

• Resilient Design: The New Paradigm in an Age of Climate Change(Alex Wilson, President of Resilient Design Institute)

Passive House

• High Performance Building Materials for Passive House Construction (Oliver Klein, 475 Building Supply)
• Ventilation in Air-Tight Buildings (John Rockwell, Technical Sales Engineer, Zehnder America)
• Building Tectonic Extremes of Passive House Design (Gregory Orwat, & Ted Sheridan, Ryall Sheridan Architects)

Wood

• Sustainable Forest Initiatives (Russel Chapman, Architectural Consultant for Sierra Pacific Windows)
• Designing with Mass Timbers (Marc Rivard, Regional Manager at WoodWorks)
• Forests, Forestry and Climate Change (Robert Perschel, Executive Director, NE Forestry Foundation)
• Climate Smart Forests and Green Construction: Designing with Biogenic Carbon to Achieve Climate Positive Structures

Acoustics

• Building Acoustics (Rose Mary Su, Senior Consultant, ACENTECH)
• Acoustics and Vibration in Mass Timber (Rose Mary Su, Senior Consultant, ACENTECH)

Energy

• UMass Amherst Energy Procurement Strategies (Zac Bloom, Vice President & Director of Sustainability & Renewables for Competitive Energy Systems)

Net Zero

• Making Net Zero Homes & Energy Retrofits Affordable, Healthy, and Low in Embodied Carbon (Kent Hicks, Principal Kent Hicks Construction)
• Running on Sunshine: Designing for Net Zero Energy and Beyond (Steven Strong President of Solar Design Associates, Inc.)
• The Least Cost Path to a Positive Energy Future (Bill Maclay, Principal Maclay Architects)

Solar Energy

• The Role of Solar in the Residential Energy Sector (Gregory Garrison, President of Northeast Solar)

Women in Construction

• Women in Construction (Lisa Clauson, Director of Strategic Partnerships for the New England Carpenters Labor Management Program & Stephanie Stevens, a 3rd year carpenters apprentice in Local 336)
• The Rise of Women in Construction (Carolina Cudemus-Jones, Director of Design and Construction Management UMass Amherst; Denise Berger, Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer, AECOM; Joanna Kripp, Operations Manager, Gilbane Building Company)

Windows

• Installing Fenestration in Exterior Insulated Walls (Jaron Vos, Manager of the Architectural Solutions team at Pella Corporation)
• Windows: Performance Glazing and Building Envelope Optimization (Steve Hoyt, Principal of A.W. Hastings & Co / Marvin Window
• Electrochromic Glass in the Design Building (Aaron Smith, View Inc.)

Healthy Materials

• View from the Front Line: Incorporating Healthier Building Materials (Lisa Carey Moore,  Senior Sustainability Manager for Integrated Eco Strategy

Improving Building Materials

• Building Better: Hopes for the Panelized Construction Industry (Alison Moynihan, Project Manager, Energy Consultant and Assistant Structural Designer for Foard Panel)
• Strategies to Lower CO2 Emissions Using Concrete Masonry (Heidi Jandris, BArch, Technical Services, Jandris Block)

Best Practices & Legal Aspects of Construction

• Forensic Architecture and The Standard of Care (Christopher D. Ling, Principal of ARCHforensic)

Energy Modeling

• The Role of Energy Modeling in Building Design and Construction (Peter Levy, Principal, GreenEngineers)

UMass Science Faculty Lectures

• Building with Adhesion: Pressure Sensitive Adhesion and the Geckskin™ Technology (Alfred J. Crosby, Professor Polymer Science & Engineering, UMass Amherst)
• Decay of Wood in Structures: Establishment, Detection, Design Problems and Protection (Barry Goodell, Research Professor, UMass Dept. of Microbiology)
• Operating Buildings to Minimize COVID Transmission and Energy Use with Opportunities Post-Pandemic (Benjamin Weil, Building and Construction Technology Faculty)

Sustainability at UMass

• Measuring Sustainability and Implementing Sustainable Systems at UMass Amherst (Ezra Small, Campus Sustainability Manager at UMass Amherst)
• Building Performance Improvement with Building Automation Systems (BAS) (Fidele Mazimpaka, Campus Energy Engineer at UMass Amherst)

Living Building Challenge

• Building at the Edge of Sustainability (Jonathan A. Wright, Wright Builders)

HVAC / Mechanical Systems

• Mechanical Systems in the Design Building (Ilona Prosol, Project Manage and Jeremy Raposa, Senior Engineer for BVH Integrated Services)
• Active Chilled Beams and Radiant Cooling (Giancarlo Tosi; Regional Manager DADANCO)

Envelope & Best Practices

• The Elements of a Better Way to Build in the 21st Century (Tedd Benson, Bensonwood & Unity Homes)
• Envelope Strategies of the Design Building – Slides Only (Marta Bouchard, Atelier 10)

Commissioning

• Building Commissioning: Everything is Connected (Wesley Stanhope & Ken Neuhauser, Building Evolution Corporation

COVID 19

• Operating Buildings to Minimize COVID Transmission and Energy Use with Opportunities Post-Pandemic (Benjamin Weil, Building and Construction Technology Faculty)

Mega Projects

• The Big Dig: The Infamous Mega Project That Remastered Boston’s Plan, Advanced Civil Engineering and Created a Generational Architectural & Landscaping Redux

Healthy Homes

• Advancing Healthy, Energy Efficient, Climate-Friendly Housing to Achieve Health and Racial Equity

• Affordable High Performance Construction and the COVID Era

PRESENTERS

• Tedd Benson, Founder, and CEO of Bensonwood & Unity Homes
• Zac Bloom, Vice President & Director of Sustainability & Renewables for Competitive Energy Systems
• Marta Bouchard, Atelier 10
• Lisa Carey Moore,  Senior Sustainability Manager for Integrated Eco Strategy
• Russel Chapman, Architectural Consultant for Sierra Pacific Windows
• Lisa Clauson, Director of Strategic Partnerships for the New England Carpenters Labor Management Program
• Alfred J. Crosby, Professor Polymer Science & Engineering, UMass Amherst
• Carolina Cudemus-Jones, Director of Design and Construction Management UMass Amherst; Denise Berger, Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer, AECOM; Joanna Kripp, Operations Manager, Gilbane Building Company
• Gregory Garrison, President of Northeast Solar
• Barry Goodell, Research Professor, UMass Dept. of Microbiology
• Steve Hoyt, Principal A.W. Hastings & Co / Marvin Window
• Kent Hicks, Principal Kent Hicks Construction
• Heidi Jandris, BArch, Technical Services, Jandris Block
• Oliver Klein, 475 Building Supply
• Peter Levy, Principal, GreenEngineers
• Seth Lawrence-Slavas, President and Principal at Wright Builders Inc.
• Christopher D. Ling, Principal of ARCHforensic
• Bill Maclay, Principal Maclay Architects
• Fidele Mazimpaka, Campus Energy Engineer at UMass Amherst
• Dan McNichol, Journalist and Author
• Alison Moynihan, Project Manager, Energy Consultant and Assistant Structural Designer for Foard Panel
• Ruth Ann Norton, President & CEO, Green & Healthy Homes Initiative
• Gregory Orwat, Ryall Sheridan Architects
• Robert Perschel, Executive Director, NE Forestry Foundation
• Peter Pinchot, Co-Founder and CEO of Whole Forest
• Ilona Prosol, Project Manager for BVH Integrated Services
• Jeremy Raposa, Senior Engineer for BVH Integrated Services
• Marc Rivard, Regional Manager at WoodWorks
• John Rockwell, Technical Sales Engineer, Zehnder America
• Ted Sheridan, Ryall Sheridan Architects
• Ezra Small, Campus Sustainability Manager at UMass Amherst
• Aaron Smith, View Inc.
• Wesley Stanhope & Ken Neuhauser, Building Evolution Corporation
• Stephanie Stevens, a 3rd year carpenters apprentice in Local 336
• Steven Strong President of Solar Design Associates, Inc.
• Giancarlo Tosi; Regional Manager DADANCO
• Rose Mary Su, Senior Consultant, ACENTECH (Two talks, see Acoustics section above)
• Jaron Vos, Manager of the Architectural Solutions team at Pella Corporation
• Benjamin Weil, UMass Amherst BCT Faculty
• Alex Wilson, President of Resilient Design Institute
• Jonathan A. Wright, Wright Builders