Monthly Open House & Shop Tour
Welcome to the New Frameworks Open House and Shop Tour! Join us for an exciting in-person event where you can explore our fabrication shop, meet our team, and learn about our latest projects - with a focus on our straw-structural insulated panels and Casitas kits. This is a great opportunity to see how we are creating a new framework for the construction industry that is sustainable, people-centered, and non-extractive by design and in practice. Whether you're a seasoned builder or just curious about embodied carbon in construction, this event is perfect for anyone interested in innovative design and eco-friendly practices. We can't wait to show you around!
Monthly Open House & Shop Tour
Welcome to the New Frameworks Open House and Shop Tour! Join us for an exciting in-person event where you can explore our fabrication shop, meet our team, and learn about our latest projects - with a focus on our straw-structural insulated panels and Casitas kits. This is a great opportunity to see how we are creating a new framework for the construction industry that is sustainable, people-centered, and non-extractive by design and in practice. Whether you're a seasoned builder or just curious about embodied carbon in construction, this event is perfect for anyone interested in innovative design and eco-friendly practices. We can't wait to show you around!
Monthly Open House & Shop Tour
Welcome to the New Frameworks Open House and Shop Tour! Join us for an exciting in-person event where you can explore our fabrication shop, meet our team, and learn about our latest projects - with a focus on our straw-structural insulated panels and Casitas kits. This is a great opportunity to see how we are creating a new framework for the construction industry that is sustainable, people-centered, and non-extractive by design and in practice. Whether you're a seasoned builder or just curious about embodied carbon in construction, this event is perfect for anyone interested in innovative design and eco-friendly practices. We can't wait to show you around!
Monthly Open House & Shop Tour
Welcome to the New Frameworks Open House and Shop Tour! Join us for an exciting in-person event where you can explore our fabrication shop, meet our team, and learn about our latest projects - with a focus on our straw-structural insulated panels and Casitas kits. This is a great opportunity to see how we are creating a new framework for the construction industry that is sustainable, people-centered, and non-extractive by design and in practice. Whether you're a seasoned builder or just curious about embodied carbon in construction, this event is perfect for anyone interested in innovative design and eco-friendly practices. We can't wait to show you around!
Monthly Open House & Shop Tour
Welcome to the New Frameworks Open House and Shop Tour! Join us for an exciting in-person event where you can explore our fabrication shop, meet our team, and learn about our latest projects - with a focus on our straw-structural insulated panels and Casitas kits. This is a great opportunity to see how we are creating a new framework for the construction industry that is sustainable, people-centered, and non-extractive by design and in practice. Whether you're a seasoned builder or just curious about embodied carbon in construction, this event is perfect for anyone interested in innovative design and eco-friendly practices. We can't wait to show you around!
Monthly Open House & Shop Tour
Welcome to the New Frameworks Open House and Shop Tour! Join us for an exciting in-person event where you can explore our fabrication shop, meet our team, and learn about our latest projects - with a focus on our straw-structural insulated panels and Casitas kits. This is a great opportunity to see how we are creating a new framework for the construction industry that is sustainable, people-centered, and non-extractive by design and in practice. Whether you're a seasoned builder or just curious about embodied carbon in construction, this event is perfect for anyone interested in innovative design and eco-friendly practices. We can't wait to show you around!
Regenerative Metropolis ‘24
Learn how bio-based materials can be used not create non-toxic, carbon storing buildings. New Frameworks will be speaking at Regenerative Metropolis '24 in New York to highlight the benefits and importance of using regeneratively produced, regional bio-based building materials. Creating non-toxic carbon-storing buildings benefits individuals, communities, and the planet.
Easy Wins for Reduced Carbon: Virtual
Virtual EventWith Jacob Racusin
Offered through Built Environment+
There are many opportunities to reduce the embodied carbon of a building’s design, but it can be hard to know where to start. In this presentation, the instructor will present a variety of proven strategies to reduce embodied carbon that can be implemented into your next – or even your current – project without requiring extensive LCA modeling.
CLF-Boston/NE Embodied Carbon Summit
CLF-Boston Summit
Northeast Bio-Based Materials Collective
With Jacob Racusin and Ace McArleton
BEAM Training Course: Virtual
virtual eventWith Jacob Racusin
Offered through Builders for Climate Action
There's no better way to learn how to use BEAM than from the team that built it! Our live, online course is delivered over three 1-1/2hr sessions. You will finish this course with a solid foundation in embodied carbon accounting, a full understanding of how to use BEAM and how to integrate this into your practice!
Buildings and Carbon: Virtual
This course will focus on the climate impacts associated with carbon emissions from the built environment. The training will emphasize the importance of goal setting and identifying strategic actions to manage greenhouse gas emissions throughout a building’s life cycle, including the operational phase, with a particular focus on embodied carbon.
BEAM Training Course: Virtual
virtual eventWith Jacob Racusin
Offered through Builders for Climate Action
There's no better way to learn how to use BEAM than from the team that built it! Our live, online course is delivered over three 1-1/2hr sessions. You will finish this course with a solid foundation in embodied carbon accounting, a full understanding of how to use BEAM and how to integrate this into your practice!
BIPOC Carpentry Fundamentals
With Najat Croll
Offered through Yestermorrow
BIPOC Carpentry Fundamentals, LGBTQ Carpentry Fundamentals, Womens+ Carpentry, Carpentry Fundamentals
New Frameworks’ member Najat Croll instructs at Yestermorrrow Design/Build School on skills critically important to climate justice & workforce development for underserved communities within the building and design trades.
Home Creators Expo 2024
We keep hearing about the housing crisis. Did you know you can be part of the solution? New Frameworks will be presenting and discussing our climate restorative ADU’s this weekend at the Home Creators Expo. If you’re interested in being a part of the solution and learning more, come meet us this weekend!
At the HOME CREATORS EXPO 2024, attend workshops and get answers to your questions and the how-tos about:
Adding an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) to your home or house lot
Converting a single-family home to multi-family
Developing a “cottage cluster” of smaller homes
Setting up a stable and mutually beneficial “homeshare”
Future View: Vernacular Technologies Symposium
New Jersey Inst. of Tech.
Future View Symposium
with Ace McArleton
22nd Annual Vermont Employee Ownership Conference
With José Ignacio de la Cruz, Marina Rubio Herranz
Field to Form: Straw at Parsons School of Design
Field to Form: Straw
With Jacob Racusin and Ace McArleton
Better Buildings by Design
The Real World of Residential Electrification: A Case Study
Residential Building Energy Standards Code 2024: Changes and How to Comply
Calculating and Lowering Embodied Carbon in a dormitory / apartment building
NESEA BE Boston '24
Reimagine Buildings '24: Building Solutions for a Just Transition
with Jacob Racusin