Upcoming Live Programs

Start Here: A Building Retrofit Series for Owners and Operators 

Start Here: A Building Retrofit Series for Owners and Operators 
Episode 2: Planning for Action - From Awareness to Strategy

Recorded November 2025

60 minutes

This recorded webinar will share how to evaluate your building’s current performance, set baselines, and align emissions reduction goals with your organization’s mission and financial priorities. Learn how to leverage available incentives, grants, and other funding resources to make projects more feasible and impactful. Whether you’re preparing your first energy assessment or updating a long-term capital improvement plan, this session will provide the tools and guidance to create a customized, actionable strategy for reducing emissions and operating costs while positioning your organization for a low-carbon future. 

Start Here: A Building Retrofit Series for Owners and Operators 
Episode 1: The Business Case for Decarbonization – Why It Matters Now

Recorded October 2025

60 minutes

This recorded webinar will help building owners and operators understand the financial and operational value of energy efficient retrofits. From making the business case to planning and implementation, experts will share strategies, incentives, and success stories that show how practical upgrades cut costs, reduce risks, and strengthen long-term building performance—while highlighting the hidden costs of doing nothing. Participants will leave with tools and clear next steps to manage buildings more efficiently and effectively. 

Illinois Residential Stretch Code Workshop

Recorded June 2025

60 minutes

This recorded webinar will familiarize building officials, plans examiners, inspectors, design professionals, contractors, raters and others in the construction industry with the amendments to the 2021 International Energy Conservation Code® (IECC) that comprise the 2023 Illinois Residential Stretch Energy Code. The session will focus on the key amendments in the residential provisions, reasoning behind the changes, and the impact these changes have on the implementation and enforcement of the energy code.

This course is eligible for AIA and ICC continuing education units.

Illinois Commercial Stretch Code Workshop

Recorded June 2025

60 minutes

This webinar will familiarize building officials, plans examiners, inspectors, design professionals and others in the construction industry with the amendments to the 2024 International Energy Conservation Code® (IECC) that comprise the 2023 Illinois Commercial Stretch Energy Code. The session will focus on the key amendments in the commercial provisions, reasoning behind the changes, and the impact these changes have on the implementation and enforcement of the energy code. Attendees will also receive links to resources and other support needed for stretch energy code adoption.

This course is eligible for AIA and ICC continuing education units.

Innovative Gas Technologies & the Role of Utilities in a Clean Energy Future

Recorded September 2024

30 minutes

During this 30-minute recorded webinar, Brian Keller, Outreach Service Provider for the ComEd Energy Efficiency Program, shares how the ComEd Energy Efficiency Program can help overcome unique barriers to energy efficiency projects faced by multi-tenant building managers by providing resources and guidance on ComEd's incentive programs for commercial buildings, small business and industrial properties.

Smart Technology: Driving Efficiency in Chicago's Existing Buildings 

Recorded May 2024

60 minutes

Join Illinois Green Alliance, BOMA/Chicago, and the Building Energy Hub to explore how smart building technologies are being implemented at the local level to reduce carbon emissions, improve efficiency, and save building owners money.

During this 60-minute recorded session, learn about the application of a Very High Efficiency (VHE) HVAC pilot to replace an original 1957 natural gas steam boiler and multiple air conditioning systems. Project team members will discuss the challenges to design a system that could provide even temperatures and full ventilation to all parts of the building and meet the environmental goals of the Temple. The project team will also share their experience incorporating an energy recovery system into the ventilation system, allowing 100%, highly filtered outside air to be brought in and give Temple occupants fresh air for the first time in decades.

This event included a 60-minute webinar primer on ComEd's Very High Efficiency (VHE) HVAC pilot featuring a case study example of this retrofit at Oak Park Temple in Oak Park, Illinois. The webinar was followed by an in-person tour of the temple later that day. The Decarb Tech Series is an educational series of the Building Energy Hub, in partnership with Illinois Green Alliance. The series features technology innovations that support building retrofits and decarbonization efforts across the industry. 

Building Decarb Tech Series: Building Envelope Retrofits

Recorded February 2023

90 minutes

During this 90-minute session, Illinois Green is partnering with the Consulate General of Canada to feature clean tech products and advancements that are reducing energy and carbon from building operations. Join us as experts from Evercloak, TROES and CleanO2 share their carbon and energy reduction solutions for commercial and multifamily buildings. 

Chicago Energy Transformation Code: Know & Go 

Recorded January 2023

80 minutes

Watch this 80-minute webinar to learn more about the 2022 Chicago Energy Transformation Code. The 2022 Chicago Energy Transformation Code, based on the 2021 edition of the International Energy Conservation Code, applies to projects where the first permit application is started on or after November 1, 2022. Additional requirements of this code will apply to projects where the first permit application is started on or after January 1, 2023. 

This 90-minute technical panel discussion explores how to renovate existing buildings to improve building energy performance and comfort. The specific challenges discussed will include massive envelope renovation, optimizing aging steam system infrastructure, and how simulation can assist in analyzing complex envelope and HVAC system decisions. Join these innovative building professionals to explore several large-scale building retrofit case studies and get inspired to up your game on existing building deep retrofits. 

Building Decarb Tech Series: From the Windows to the Walls 

Recorded August 2022

90 minutes

This tech series will discuss several options for converting, retrofitting, and replacing window and wall elements for greater energy efficiency. In this 90-minute webinar, speakers present research, data, and tools for architects, builders, and property owners to utilize in reducing their carbon footprint in a manner that is a moderate to low cost. 

Heat Pumpification of Buildings: Lessons Learned and Practical Considerations

Recorded May 2022

90 minutes

This 90-minute session brings panelists, including homeowners, developers, designers, and contractors together to evaluate heat pump applications in single- and multi-family buildings, especially affordable housing, and conclude the session with a panel discussion.