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Better Integrating Historic Buildings into Building Performance Standards
Thursday, May 14, 2026
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. ET
Building Performance Standards (BPS) have emerged as a potent new policy to improve the energy/emissions performance of buildings. However, as a policy that impacts existing buildings, they raise important questions for historic buildings. The presentation will present a new policy toolkit that addresses how to effectively integrate historic buildings and historic preservation into BPS.
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Roundtable: Decarbonizing the Built Environment Through Heritage
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. ET
Join the APT Technical Committee for Sustainable Preservation (TCSP) for this roundtable discussion on Decarbonizing the Built Environment through Heritage. In this webinar, authors who contributed to the APT Bulletin Special Issue of the same title will provide a brief overview of their article topic followed by a moderated discussion led by the TCSP. Discussion topics include reuse of existing buildings as a critical decarbonization strategy, tools and methods for quantifying embodied carbon, aligning performance standards with historic buildings, and more.
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Adapting Aspirational Modernism: The 1939 World’s Fair Belgian Friendship Building and Expo 67’s Habitat
Tuesday, June 9, 2026
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. ET
As showcases for invention and innovation, world fairs have presented unique creative opportunities for bold engineering and iconic architecture symbolizing progress. While many fair structures were never intended to survive beyond an exposition, vestiges remain and continue to evolve as enduring expressions of cultural pride and optimism. This webinar will explore the history, reuse and conservation of two geographically distant world’s fair icons conceived in very different times, places and socio-political environments, resulting in unexpectedly differing outcomes.
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