If you haven’t been to a NESEA Building Energy Conference than you are really missing out. The conference covers all aspects of buildings including single family, multifamily, renewable technologies, energy saving results, financing energy retrofits.. and the list goes on and on. Its fun. Its hip. Its innovative. NESEA is a really first class conference.

The information can be found here:  www.nesea.org/be12

This year, Buffalo Energy is proud to announce that we are sponsoring the multifamily track which is part organized by Bernice Radle, a young, enthusiastic lady who joined us just over a year ago. We are thrilled to be a sponsor of this track and are very pleased with the sessions which include historical retrofitting, a session on results seen across the Northeast, financing and more. It is really a slam dunk track!

We also have other big news about NESEA! Bernice Radle will also be a part of the Keynote Experience! She will be discussing the idea of cities and having a whole systems thought process when it comes to sustainability. High performance buildings are only one part of the equation… when will we begin thinking about how to address policy and proote high performance urbanism along with our energy efficient buildings?!!??

Bernice will be speaking alongside with Chris Benedict and John Abrams during this keynote experience. Both who are extremely smart and are doing amazing things in the building energy world. Its a big deal and we are excited!

We hope you will go to the conference. It will be super fun and is really worth going on so many levels.

See you at NESEA!

www.nesea.org/be12

nesea facebook : http://www.facebook.com/pages/NESEA-Northeast-Sustainable-Energy-Association/191295619112

Today this article was posted on Buffalorising.com!

http://www.buffalorising.com/2012/01/the-new-buffalo-brewing-company.html

We are working together with New Buffalo Brewing, HUNT real estate and Preservation Studios to get the most incentive dollars to make this project work.  We are excited and thankful to Chris @ Hunt real estate for bringing us all to the table.

We love energy efficiency and historical buildings and we also LOVE beer. We are thrilled to see Buffalo finally getting local micro breweries and be a part of Buffalo’s progress.

This picture was taken a few weeks ago. We swear we have more growlers now. A new growler picture will be posted soon.

We just wanted to take a minute to wish everyone a happy and safe holiday season. We are working on our 2012 goals now and know that 2012 will our best year yet!

Here are some fun articles to read while you are on your holiday.

Preservation Nation Blog – Sustainability and Preservation. http://blog.preservationnation.org/2011/12/16/sustainability-and-preservation-looking-back-on-2011/

NEEP – Energy guides for buildings are coming soon. http://www.energyefficiencymatters.org/energy-guides-for-buildings-its-coming/

Buildingscience.com – Glass Condo Issues in Toronto! http://www.cbc.ca/toronto/features/condos/

Green Building Advisor – Fun row house rehab projects are happening in Baltimore. http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/homes/building-best-baltimore-rowhomes-and-neighborhoods

Happy New Year!

Love,

Buffalo Energy

Yes!

Today we had Buffalo News coverage for the awards we received from NYSERDA for having good energy reduction results and excellent technical merit in Multifamily Buildings!

We continue to provide smart and practical energy reduction measures for all of our clients and we pride ourselves on seeing solid, realistic and consistent energy savings overall.

http://www.buffalonews.com/business/article678464.ece

Today is our holiday party!

Boy, we work hard and party hard. Its a good way to live life.

Can’t tell you where it is though because its a secret. However, we will post pictures tomorrow.

In the mean time, check out this article. Fred and I are going to do a walk through of the building today! So historical! It will be such a great project.

http://www.buffalorising.com/2011/04/niagara-street-conversion-strenghtens-downtowns-western-edge.html

-Bernice

We wanted to share some of the work we have been doing with you. We have been very busy traveling around across the Northeast crawling through buildings and looking at job sites. Several of us have traveled to Saratoga, Batavia, Philadelphia, Albany, New Hampshire… all while having lots of work to do here in Buffalo!!! We decided to write a post showing you some buildings, travel pics and whats going on. The end of the year can get crazy because we are trying to finish up last minute projects.

Buffalo

Buffalo rocks. We are working on so many projects here including the White Livery on Jersey Street, a couple cool low rise projects in Cheektowaga, a large retrofit in Niagara Falls that has seen drastic air leakage reductions and so many more. This picture is the PUSH net zero house in Buffalo’s West Side that we did the HERS Rating for.

Saratoga Springs

Fred, Michael and Bernice went to Saratoga Springs last week to look at a ton of properties. Here is a photo Bernice took with her instagram phone app of a second empire styled building that we looked at. Making buildings like this energy efficient is tough!

Philly

Mark and Fred went to Philly to look at cool new construction infill projects we are working on. The plans show 16 foot wide lots! Such a cool infill project.

New Hampshire

There is so much work happening in New Hampshire. Fred and Michael up there this week to meet with potential contractors and do a multifamily blower door. They did NOT see a moose. Everytime we travel past this Beech Nut Factory on the I-90, Bernice takes a photo. She loves stuff like this so we wanted to include it in the post.

That’s all for now!!

We will try to post some neat stuff on here more often. Enjoy the rest of your week!

Hello everybody!

Please have a safe and fun thanksgiving weekend! We will be back in action on Monday morning.  If you have any extra pie you want to give us, we will gladly accept it… just sayin’.

P.S. Can you tell we are ready for the weekend? This picture was taken in our kitchen this morning! (For the record, posting this was Fred’s idea.. hahah.. he’s a great boss.)

We have been quietly gaining facebook attention over the last six months. Now that the website is launched, we want to push our online presence.

Like our fb page for all the latest and greatest info!

http://www.facebook.com/buffaloenergy

We launched the site today! Stay tuned for more cool stuff!

Love,
BE