Energy and water resource management have historically been treated as separate concerns. However, water is used in the production of nearly every major California energy source, and energy is used at multiple steps in water delivery and treatment systems. Risks from climate change and interest in resilience have increased awareness of the interdependence of water and energy systems. Speakers will explore sustainable water use and management, water-use intensity in electrical generation, and case studies where water and energy were considered holistically to promote sustainability at the building, city, and regional scale.

More than ten years ago the California Energy Commission (CEC) and California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) established aspirational goals of Zero Net Energy (ZNE) for all new residential construction by 2020 and all new nonresidential and highrise residential construction by 2030 with half of existing buildings being renovated to ZNE by 2030. A group of exceptional speakers discussed topics related to state policy as well as building design and operations essential to moving to ZNE and beyond toward an efficient, low-carbon California.

This symposium brought together experts who are deeply engaged in conducting and/or applying health and wellbeing research. They shared findings that offer the potential to improve how we design, operate and measure healthy and productive spaces that benefit occupants while also supporting companies’ financial performance.

This symposium explored the interaction of ZNE buildings, DERs, and the increasingly renewable-rich electrical grid to address how recent successes are changing existing ZNE paradigms, and how our policies and strategies should evolve for a healthy economy in the next decade.

CBE research staff collaborated with Integral Group for a panel session to explore the new developments and synergies that exist when designing for zero-net energy and passive survivability.

This session explored how stakeholders are addressing resilience at multiple scales, presenting tools and design strategies at the scale of individual buildings; and ideas for infrastructure, policy and community-building for cities and communities.

In this one-day seminar, industry experts discussed the goal for non-residential buildings to be zero-net energy by 2030, tackling current issues surrounding ZNE buildings.

In this webinar past users of the Livable Analytics toolkit explain how they successfully applied occupant insights to improve the design and operation of buildings. This event was part of the Webinar Series on Workplace Performance, Design, and Evaluation.

In this webinar, two psychological experts will discuss theoretical frameworks that help us understand how people relate to their physical environments, and highlight approaches used to recognize whether spaces are working for workspace occupants. This event was part of the Webinar Series on Workplace Performance, Design, and Evaluation.

In this half-day onsite and webinar event, a panel of workplace specialists described practices they have used to understand how workplaces work for stakeholders, in terms of productivity, health, and satisfaction. This event was part of the Webinar Series on Workplace Performance, Design, and Evaluation.