Radio BE-Ex

Brian Healey, Vice President of Sales & Marketing at Pearl Street Systems, joins Radio BE-Ex in this special Daylight Hour 2026 episode to discuss the evolving role of lighting in building performance. From the rise of LEDs and smarter controls to the benefits of daylight, Brian shares practical insights on reducing energy use, improving occupant comfort, and getting more value from existing l...

Bomee Jung, CEO and Co-Founder of Cadence OneFive, discusses her career spanning affordable housing, public service, and climate technology, and creating new opportunities for smaller organizations to participate in the clean energy transition.

Tara Stitzlein, Chief Executive Officer of Community Office for Resource Efficiency (CORE) in Basalt, Colorado, discusses how CORE has served as the community’s energy advocates for more than three decades, helping to decarbonize the built environment through community solar and eventually electrifying fossil-fuel powered systems. Visit aspencore.org to learn about CORE including their mission , i...

Theresa Backhus, Director of The Building Innovation Hub in Washington, D.C., discusses the neighborhood, city, state, and regional scales of making better buildings and transforming neighborhoods to positively impact the people living, working, and playing in them. This season, Radio BE-Ex is spotlighting high-performance building resource centers that are members of a growing national network, t...

Katie Kaluzny, Director of The Building Energy Hub in Illinois, discusses her decades-long career in nonprofit education and her current role growing a one-stop-shop resource center for building owners in the state to comply with green building laws and improve the efficiency of their buildings. This season, Radio BE-Ex is spotlighting high-performance building resource centers that are members of...

German-born lighting design expert Thomas Mnich, Sales Manager at Lutron, joins Radio BE-Ex in this special Daylight Hour episode to discuss all things lighting: the dynamic between electric light and daylight, the extraordinary impact lighting can have on the human experience, and the power of the dimmer. Hear about the future of lighting design and the role that it plays in advancing sustainabil...

Malachi Rein shares the experiences that led him to the role of Director of Building Energy Exchange St. Louis ( BE-Ex STL ) and the need to engage with various groups in the community to help make buildings in St. Louis healthy, resilient, and energy efficient. This season, Radio BE-Ex is spotlighting high-performance building resource centers that are members of a growing national network, the B...

Katie Schmid, Deputy Executive Director at the NYC Mayor's Office of Climate and Environmental Justice, joins Radio BE-Ex for a conversation on the City's efforts to tackle environmental justice (EJ) in the building industry. Hear about the strategies underway to incorporate EJ into building decarbonization and clean energy infrastructure and how the city documents and analyzes EJ in historically...

In this episode, BE-Ex Director of Educational Resources Katie Schwamb discusses the importance of education with In Cho, a professor and architect who has started her own non-profit, Passive House for Everyone. Listen for an in-depth conversation on Passive House principles, empowering students, and In's successful career path.

Radio BE-Ex is kicking off a new season with a conversation with Pat Sapinsley, a BE-Ex board member and Advisor to the Urban Future Lab at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Tune in to hear Pat share her thoughtful insights on the speed of innovation in energy efficiency and architecture, the ability to scale climate tech solutions, and on her storied career with transitions into different fields.

Weatherization is a great first step for building owners to improve efficiency, decrease utility bills, improve occupant comfort, and pave the way for major capital improvements that enable long-term LL97 compliance. BE-Ex's Nicol La Cumbre-Gibbs dives into the what, why, and how of weatherization in this Radio BE-Ex short.

Radio BE-Ex presents a 2022 interview with Sara Karerat, Managing Director at Center for Active Design (CfAD), covering the connection between public health and the built environment, and the expanding body of research that underpins CfAD's Fitwel healthy building certification system.

Empire Building Challenge collaborator and sustainability strategy consultant Lane Burt joins Radio BE-Ex for a conversation on decarbonization planning, and tools that help portfolio owners develop detailed decarbonization roadmaps for their buildings.

Radio BE-Ex welcomes Michael Izzo (Vice President, Carbon Strategy, Hines) for a conversation on the role of global real estate firms in decarbonizing our built environment, and emerging approaches that may define the next wave of low-carbon buildings.

Steven Winter delves into his storied career as Founder of 50-year-old energy & sustainability consulting group, Steven Winter Associates, and past Chairman of the U.S. Green Building Council—overseeing the launch of the LEED green building standard and Greenbuild Conference.

Radio BE-Ex welcomes Carlton Brown, Founding Partner & Principal of Direct Invest Development, and pioneer in the US green building movement, for a lively discussion on the past, present, and future of sustainable urban development, and how the impacts of better buildings can extend beyond their occupants, empowering the communities in which they stand.    

Kate Simonen, Professor and Chair of the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington, founder of the Carbon Leadership Forum, and leading force behind the recent Embodied Carbon in Construction (EC3) Calculator, joins Radio BE-Ex for a conversation on reducing embodied carbon in the building sector.

Radio BE-Ex welcomes Donald Chahbazpour (Director, Regulatory Strategy — Future of Heat, National Grid) for a conversation on implementing gas decarbonization through policy, strategy, and technology.

Hear from Susan Ubbelohde, Co-Founder & Principal of L+U Associates, speak to the importance of relying on daylight and designing sustainable, daylit buildings. Susan Ubbelohde is a leading expert in daylighting design & research, with a focus on visual comfort, energy efficiency, sustainability and delight in high-performance building design.

Radio BE-Ex invites Lisa Heschong, an experienced architect, educator, and author of Thermal Delight in Architecture , as well as the recently published Visual Delight in Architecture: Daylight, Vision and View . Join us to learn more about the importance of daylight and visual access to the outdoors in buildings, and prioritizing daylight access as a human necessity rather than a luxury.

Radio BE-Ex invites Stas Zakrzewski, AIA, LEED AP, Principal at Zakrzewski + Hyde Architects, for a discussion about decarbonizing buildings at any scale: from embodied carbon of building materials, to Passive House design, to encouraging a circular economy in the building sector.  

Architect Carl Elefante, FAIA, FAPT, LEED AP, highlights AIA's commitment to climate action and the central importance of retrofitting existing buildings in addressing climate change.

Jamal Lewis (Director of Climate, Energy, and Health at the Green & Healthy Homes Initiative) joins Yetsuh Frank to discuss equitable strategies for achieving decarbonized, efficient, healthy and safe housing.

As the risks that the climate crisis poses to physical assets becomes clearer, more and more stakeholders in the real estate sector are looking to guidelines like the Taskforce for Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) and reporting platforms like GRESB to help them measure and reduce their exposure.  With carbon emissions emerging as a key indicator we talk with Fiona Cousins, a Director at...

Daniel Zarrilli, New York City’s Chief Climate Policy Advisor and OneNYC Director, is a leading force behind the City’s fight against climate change. Responsible for the OneNYC 2050 strategic plan, Dan has been at the heart of the City’s climate action initiatives for nearly a decade. His work spans the launch of a comprehensive $20 billion climate adaptation program, aligning the City’s emissions...