Spring BCT Programs – via ZOOM

Registration is by invitation of the UMASS BCT Program– this program is free and open to the public.
Architects who want LUs recorded, must register and submit the administrative fee. UMass faculty and staff requiring credit register for no fee.
Register for all programs here.

Monday, March 8 | 4:00-5:15 | Zoom

Boston’s Big Dig

1HSW (pending approval)
Dan McNichol, Journalist & Author, Spokesperson for the Big Dig

Dan McNichol, best-selling author and award-winning journalist discusses the nation’s most intriguing, modern, urban marvel, Boston’s Big Dig. McNichol shares how the mega urban project has come to define how we plan, design, construct cities in the United States…for better and for worse. The interactive conversation concludes with how The Big Dig, the current plague and climate change challenge the promise of urbanism in America. For over two decades, Dan McNichol was the spokesperson for the largest, most complex highway construction project ever embarked upon in U.S. history: Boston’s Big Dig. McNichol will discuss the management of this mega-public works project, officially known as the Central Artery/Tunnel Project, sharing lessons learned as well as describing the civil engineering feats of innovative tunnel designs, the creation of one of the world’s largest ventilation systems, and the construction of a cable stayed bridge over the Charles River in Boston. Big Dig’s project management revealing managerial successes and failures of the project’s many “messy complexities.”

Monday, March 29 | 4:00-5:15 | Zoom

Building Commissioning; Everything is Connected

1LU or HSW (pending approval)
Wes Stanhope, CEM EBCP CCP CPHC, Founder & CEO Stanhope Developments

Buildings are comprised of potentially competing system that are expected to work in harmony with each other. Commissioning is a living and adaptive process that can be implemented at any point throughout the lifespan of a building, ensuring that the building systems are reviewed and tested for optimum performance. Wes will share lessons learned from projects to explain why the most successful building Commissioning starts before design has begun

Monday, April 19 | 4:00-5:15 | Zoom

The Least Cost Path to a Positive Energy Future

1HSW (pending approval)
Bill Maclay FAIA

Bill Maclay will share a tested and proven financial methodology, which demonstrates that positive energy buildings are typically the least cost option on a cash flow basis when compared to fossil fuel code buildings. These projects also accrue long term financial, social equity, ecological, and health benefits. Maclay Architects has developed and successfully used this process for over 12 years to assist owners in evaluating financial performance of positive energy buildings. Commercial, institutional, and nonprofit and other residential case studies will illustrate the detailed and interwoven financial/energy analysis process, metrics, and templates used to guide positive energy projects from initiation to completion. This includes the design and financial analysis of a net positive energy, plus carbon storing, single family home design that meets the current need for cost effective operational and embodied energy buildings and design.