During this featured break, you can watch the following Mini-Sessions:

1. Enhancing Passive Systems for Thermal Resilience
   • Speaker: Aylin Ozkan, RWDI
   • In the face of climate change, and as building codes and standards evolve to promote increased building energy efficiency and reduced carbon footprints, it is also important to ensure that buildings can withstand prolonged power outages during extreme weather events to provide habitable shelter passively. This presentation will focus on going beyond typical compliance energy modelling procedures, in order to demonstrate a new approach to guide early stages of building design to improve passive performance through time-based thermal resilience metrics. It will highlight the critical measures that need to be addressed effectively to achieve high levels of thermal autonomy and passive habitability and provide practical examples of how the methodology is applied in professional practice.
      
2. Unlocking New Revenue Streams for Real Estate while De-Carbonizing Energy Markets
   • Speakers:
     • Elena Bondareva, Vivit
     • Sheree Ip, Power Ledger - Australia
     • Nat Chanitsorn, BCPG - Thailand
   • How do we prepare for a clean-energy future where we design, build, operate, and inhabit grid-interactive buildings? The real estate industry has amassed a proportional response to the energy efficiency, embodied carbon, and net-zero challenges. Still, it has remained a largely passive consumer of energy. This simply won’t do for long because the future of energy is interactive: energy has shifted from a “perishable” commodity to a tradable one. You may have heard that if you are not using your credit cards to earn rewards, you are subsidizing other people’s holidays. Well, the same holds here: if you are not mobilizing your asset, you are leaving money on the table. As an industry, we have another opportunity to step up, transforming the CapEx and OpEx business cases while slashing the costs of “doing the right thing.” See how net-zero targets can be met via the marketing budget; how every dollar spent on the RECs credits of LEED do more to fight climate change; and how a real estate asset can be an asset for the grid even without a solar panel or a battery.