High-performance new building design, spec, and construction is a piece of cake compared to moving existing buildings into high performance. Before you can CHANGE the way an existing building works, you need to ESTABLISH how it currently works and then be intentional about protecting the building performance that has worked while not loading the retrofit with unintended consequences.
A big part of this session will be: what are the tools we can use to assess building performance of existing buildings?

About the Speaker
Peter Yost is the person you turn to if you want to truly understand how buildings work: their design, specification, construction, performance assessment. His expertise ranges from construction waste management and advanced framing to energy efficiency, indoor air quality, moisture management, and building durability. Peter has provided this building-science expertise to leading building industry high performance efforts, including USGBC’s LEED for Homes and REGREEN, EPA’s WaterSense, DOE’s Building America, and IWBI’s WELL programs. He is also a Lecturer for Yale’s graduate program in Forestry & Environmental Studies, Technical Director for the web-based GreenBuildingAdvisor, and an Adjunct Faculty with the University of Massachusetts Department of Building Construction and Technology program.