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Why this is important: This case study demonstrates how a historic mixed-use manufacturing space can decarbonize heating with rooftop units (RTUs) and electric water heaters.

Why this is important: This case study demonstrates how a healthcare center can decarbonize by replacing end-of-life HVAC systems with air to water heat pumps and heat pump RTUs.

Why this is important: This case study demonstrates how a religious worship building can improve occupant thermal comfort and save money on utilities through electrification and added building controls.

Why this is important: This case study demonstrates how a historic manufacturing space can plan for phased decarbonization, improving energy efficiency first then electrifying heating and cooling.

Why this is important: This case study demonstrates how a hotel can pursue electrification through roof replacement, HVAC optimization, and targeted envelope upgrades.

Why this is important: This case study demonstrates how a large multi-family building can decarbonize over long-term system changes, including air sealing, new windows, and heat pump replacements.

Why this is important: This case study demonstrates how a recently constructed mixed-use office and retail facility can improve performance and electrify heating and cooling.

Why this is important: This case study demonstrates how an elementary school can replace end-of-life boilers with a heat pump system, adding air sealing and solar to improve performance and comfort.

Why this is important: Predictive, physics-based modeling helps reduce retrofit uncertainty, improve performance, enable holistic decarbonization planning.

Why this is important: Thermal breaks can significantly reduce heat loss, improve overall building performance, and enhance both the envelope and HVAC efficiency across a wide range of project types.

Why this is important: Super-insulating aerogels dramatically improve thermal performance, enhance energy efficiency, and maintain architectural design integrity.

Why this is important: Learn how a historical church upgraded their heating and cooling systems to ground-source heat pumps, leveraging incentives to cover part of the cost.

Why this is important: This webinar covers how two institutions, Wellesley Village Church and Allston Brighton CDC, balanced, sequenced, and financed decarbonization measures.

Why this is important: This webinar covers navigating building performance standards, various pathways to decarbonization, and a general overview of how to pay for building upgrades.

Why this is important: This case study examines seven scenarios for Boston BERDO compliance in the context of an aging/end-of-life building enclosure and mid-life mechanical systems.

Why this is important: Provides a standard framework for buildings pursuing decarbonization to document a long-term plan, including building profile, equipment life cycles, and business-as-usual costs.

Why this is important: Example of a mixed-use residential and artist studios building in Boston that implemented upgrades to save energy on heating and cooling, improve comfort and durability.

Why this is important: Retrocommissioning is the process of optimizing a building's HVAC, electrical, and other systems to save energy. Learn from this example of BXP's office buildings across Boston.