Join Building Energy Exchange for our first-ever game night! Following small bites and drinks, participants will break into small groups to play a custom-designed building decarbonization board game. Using a real-world building scenario, teams will create mock decarbonization plans by evaluating strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while weighing factors such as costs, trigger events, and other site-specific considerations. Come prepared to collaborate, apply your skills, and dive into the decision-making process behind effective building decarbonization.

Schedule

5:30-6:00pm – Registration check in & refreshments
6:00-7:00pm – Introduction and game play
7:00-7:300 – Debrief & discussion

The Let’s Decarbonize! workshop serves as the third course in our Strategic Decarbonization Planning training series, a three-part educational series developed by NYSERDA and Building Energy Exchange, in collaboration with RMI and Ember Strategies. Tailored for professionals in engineering, real estate, and technology, this training series equips participants with the tools and knowledge to drive practical, cost-effective low-carbon retrofits in large buildings. Grounded in lessons learned from NYSERDA’s Empire Building Challenge and their innovative retrofit demonstration projects, participants will learn how to:

• Identify effective retrofit strategies by evaluating technical solutions and real estate conditions;
• Make the case for low-carbon retrofits with compelling business narratives that resonate with decision-makers; and
• Turn plans into action by creating clear, step-by-step decarbonization roadmaps for real-world projects.