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Energy Star page on installing plastic on windows

Heat pump water heaters

Hydronic heating system: A hydronic heating system uses hot water to heat a home. The system includes a boiler, pumps, pipes, and radiators or baseboard heaters.

Stack effect (aka chimney effect): The movement of air into and out of a building due to differences in air pressure and temperature.

Maryland Home Energy checkups

Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI)

RMI Article mentioned in this episode

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Energy Star

LEED

Enterprise Green Communities

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Greater Boston Housing Report Card

Boston Indicators

Boston Foundation

Boston University Initiative on Cities

Housing Navigator Massachusetts

Multi-Family Zoning Requirement for MBTA Communities

Article in the Boston Globe about weaponizing public land

Community Preservation Act

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Energy Star

LEED

Enterprise Green Communities

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Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (Mass CEC)

Mass CEC Workforce Training

Mass Save Clean Energy Pathways Internship Program

Mass Talent Initiative

Equity Workforce Fund

MWBE: Minority and/or Women-Owned Business Enterprise

EPA: US Environmental Protection Agency

DOE: US Department of Energy

DOE Training for Residential Energy Contractors Grants (TREC)

EV: Electric vehicle

Massachusetts Clean Energy Workforce Needs Assessment

2023 Massachusetts Clean Energy Industry Report

2030, 2050 goals for decarbonization

DOL: US Department of Labor

Hot Work certification

CBO: Community-based organization

RFP: Request for Proposals

EJ neighborhoods: Environmental Justice Populations in Massachusetts

Equity Workforce Training Implementation Grants

Climate-Critical Training, Equipment, and Infrastructure Grants

Equity Workforce Planning and Capacity Grants

Minority and Women Business Enterprise Support Grants

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Energy Star

LEED

Enterprise Green Communities

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ABCD

LEAN Multifamily program

WegoWise

Environmental Justice Communities

Decarbonization: for more information on what decarbonization is and the goals of decarbonization, listen to BuildingWell Episode 4: The Role of Existing Buildings in a Green World (or Functional Medicine for Buildings)

BERDO

LEAN Deep Energy Retrofit (DER) program

DOER

DOER Decarbonization Program

Action, Inc.

AMP Appliance Management Program

Categorical benefit list for eligibility for discount utility rate

Massachusetts Fuel Assistance Program

www.LEANmultifamily.org

ABCD Facebook

ABCD LinkedIn

ABCD Twitter

ABCD YouTube

ABCD Instagram

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Energy Star

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Guardian Article about spray foam

Embodied Carbon

Spray Foam Removal Certification

Grenfell fires

“Building Science Corporation did some great testing where they looked at the impact of insulation in assemblies where you have that air gap, because I think folks were concerned that, you know, if you have a layer of air, isn't that defeating the point of insulation?”[1]

Kristin’s episode on healthy homes

[1] https://buildingscience.com/documents/reports/rr-1207-vancouver-field-exposure-facility/view

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ACEEE

Paper published as a part of ACEEE Summer Study 2024: Investigating the Impacts of Climate Change on an Affordable Multifamily Building in Boston, Massachusetts

LEED

Passive House

Energy Star

Enterprise Green Communities

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Benchmarking: Measuring and tracking energy use in buildings to better understand energy performance compared to similar buildings

Building envelope: All building components separating indoors from outdoors. (Exterior walls, foundations, roof, windows, doors, etc.)

Heat island effect: When urban areas are hotter than the surrounding areas because they absorb and retain more heat and have fewer natural landscape features.

IES

Energy Plus

EQuest

Wufi Passive

Fraunhofer

HERS

Passive House Institute (PHI)

Phius

LITCH: Low-income Housing Tax Credit

Mass Save Passive House Construction Incentives

MA Specialized Opt-In Code

2050 Climate Goals in MA

BERDO

CMIP 6

Energy burden: the percentage of total income that is paid towards energy bills.

2003 power outage in the Northeast

Texas 2021 power outage

Electric resistance heating

Episode 5 about DHW

Smart grids

Microgrids

Phius Revive for existing buildings

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Energy Star

LEED

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WELL Certification

LEED Health pathways

Old Colony Case Study regarding building and occupant health

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Notes from this episode:

WELL Building Standard

WELL AP

Phius

Certified Passive House Consultant

LEED

LEED AP

LEED Green Rater

Green Guard

FloorScore

Green Label Plus

Cradle to Cradle

Fitwel

Reset

Enterprise Green Communities

Living Building Challenge

99% Invisible podcast episode about Octagon Houses

Old Colony case study

Old Colony Harvard School of Public Health study

References on Kristin's research:

Cedeño-Laurent, J.G., Williams, A., MacNaughton, P., Cao, X., Eitland, E., Spengler, J. and Allen, J. (2018). Building Evidence for Health: Green Buildings, Current Science, and Future Challenges. Annual Review of Public Health, [online] 39(1), pp.291–308. https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-publhealth-031816-044420

Dovjak, M. and Kukec, A. (2019). Creating Healthy and Sustainable Buildings: An Assessment of Health Risk Factors

Frumkin, H., Bratman, G.N., Breslow, S.J., Cochran, B., Kahn Jr, P.H., Lawler, J.J., Levin, P.S., Tandon, P.S., Varanasi, U., Wolf, K.L. and Wood, S.A. (2017). Nature Contact and Human Health: A Research Agenda. Environmental Health Perspectives, [online] 125(7). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28796634/

Huang, L., Fantke, P., Ritscher, A. and Jolliet, O. (2022). Chemicals of concern in building materials: a high-throughput screening. Journal of Hazardous Materials, [online] 424. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304389421025425#:~:text=To%20assess%2 0the%20potential%20human%20exposures%20and%20risks,Isaacs%20et%20al.%2C%202014 %2C%20Jolliet%20et%20al.%2C%202021%29. [Accessed 1 Aug. 2022]

Kim, D.H. and Bluyssen, P.M. (2020). Clustering of office workers from the OFFICAIR study in The Netherlands based on their self-reported health and comfort. Building and Environment, [online] 176, p.106860. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360132320302195

National Center for Healthy Housing (2008). Background on the Importance of Healthy Housing for Older Adults Prepared by the National Center for Healthy Housing. [online] Available at: https://nchh.org/resource-library/fact-sheet_background-on-the-importance-of-healthy-housing-for-older-adults.pdf [Accessed 14 Aug. 2024].

Petrovic, E.K., Vale, B. and Pedersen Zari, M. (2017). Materials for a Healthy, Ecological and Sustainable Built Environment: Principles for Evaluation. [online] Duxford, United Kingdom; Cambridge, Ma, United States: Woodhead Publishing Elsevier. Available at: https://www-sciencedirectcom.ezproxy3.lhl.uab.edu/book/9780081007075/materials-for-a-healthy-ecological-andsustainable-built-environment [Accessed 12 Mar. 2022].

The New School: Healthy Materials Lab (n.d.). Why Healthy Materials. [online] Healthy Materials Lab. Available at: https://healthymaterialslab.org/why-healthy-materials [Accessed 3 Apr. 2022]

U.S. Green Building Council (n.d.). Better Building Materials. [online] Available at: https://prod-hml.s3.amazonaws.com/news/Better_Building_Materials_Guide.pdf [Accessed 20 Apr. 2022].

U.S. Green Building Council (n.d.). Better Building Materials. [online] Available at: https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2014- 08/documents/sick_building_factsheet.pdf [Accessed 29 Apr. 2022]

Welch, L.S. (1991). Severity of health effects associated with building-related illness. Environmental Health Perspectives. [online] Available at: https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/ehp.919567 [Accessed 5 Mar. 2022]

Valette, J., Schettler, T. and Wolfe, M. (2014). Asthamagens in Building Materials: The Problem & Solutions. [online] Healthy Building Network. Available at: https://healthybuilding.net/uploads/files/gb2014-asthmagen-paper.pdf [Accessed 6 May 2022].

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Especially after 2020, I believe that people are now spending 62% of their lives indoors since 2020, when it used to be 50% and in hotter places it's up to 90%.[1]

Different temperature needs for men and women large office buildings

Viral TikTok mentioned in this episode

[1] Allen, Joseph G., and John D. Macomber. Healthy buildings: How indoor spaces drive performance and productivity. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. 

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