A2ZERO's Lunch and Learn 2026 Series

The Lunch and Learns are a collaboration between the Huron Valley American Institute of Architects, Washtenaw Contractors Association and A²ZERO. These short webinars cover a variety of topics related to building efficiency and the broader goal of reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2030.

Lunch and Learn 2026 Series

Recording Links

• 1-13-26: Hot Water Heat Pumps recording and presentation slides
• 2-10-26: Countdown to 2030 recording and presentation slides
• 3-10-26: Creating Affordable Places recording and presentation slides
• 4-14-26: The Value of Implementing Sustainability in Healthcare
• 5-12-26: 2026 A 2 ZERO Carbon Neutrality Plan Update

Lunch and Learn 2025 Series

Recording Links

• 1-14-25: SouthTown – creating a healthy, low carbon, resilient community
• 2-11-25: Accelerating to Zero-Faster Together Washtenaw County Climate Action Progress
  Presentation Slides: The Road to Net-Zero Operations and  Resilient Washtenaw
• 3-11-25: Accelerating to Zero—Faster Together University of Michigan Utilities Master Plan
  Presentation Slides: Implementing A2ZERO AVPCS
• 3-25-25: Agrisolar: Maximizing Agriculture AND Renewable Energy Tech Tuesday’s Recording and Presentations slides
• 4-8-25: Accelerating to Zero-Faster Together Updates to the Michigan Commercial Energy Code: 2025 and Beyond
• 5-13-25: Accelerating to Zero-Faster Together City of Ann Arbor A²ZERO Update and presentation slides
• 6-10-25: Accelerating to Zero-Faster Together Meijer’s Sustainability Goals, Plans, and Progress and presentation slides
• 6-24-25: Heat Pumps 201 and presentation slides
• 9-9-25: High Performance Glazing Technologies and Vacuum Insulated Glass recording and presentation slides
• 10-14-25: AAPS Capital Improvements recording and presentation slides
• 11-11-25: Mass Timber recording and presentation slides
• 12-9-25: AAPS Capital Improvements – Part 2 recording and presentation slides

Lunch and Learn 2024 Series

Recording Links

• 1-9-24: University of Michigan 2024 Sustainability Update
• 2-13-24: All Electric Food Service Planning & Design for Sustainability
• 3-12-24: Waste Water Energy Recovery: Sustainable Heating and Cooling Using the Power of Waste Water
• 4-9-24: What’s New in Geo? An Overview and Update – Can we reduce field sizes by up to 80%?
• 5-14-24: Accelerating to Zero – Faster Together City of Ann Arbor & Washtenaw County Progess
• 6-11-24: Passive Building for Multifamily and Commercial: Case Studies and Best Practices
• 9-10-24: Introduction to ASHRAE Guideline 34-2019: Energy Guideline for Historic Buildings , Presentation
• 10-8-24: Emerging High Performance Glazing Technologies , Presentation
• 11-12-24: COMMERCIAL ON-SITE SOLAR AND STORAGE: WHY SOLAR? WHY NOW? Integrated System Planning for New and Existing buildings, 2030 Presentation, City of Ann Arbor SEU Presentation, Arbor Consultants Presentation.

Lunch and Learn 2023 Series

Recording Links

• 1-10-23: A decarbonization pathway for retrofitting buildings and portfolios to be Future-Fit and avoiding Brown Discounts
• 2-14-23: How professionals can incorporate energy efficiency, renewable energy, and develop brownfields and historic properties with the knowledge of tax credit incentives and the influence of Carbon Neutrality policies from the Inflation Reduction Act
• 3-14-23: Reducing Embodied Carbon: Challenges, strategies and tools
• 4-11-23: GeoExchange Systems: Renewable and Efficient
• 5-9-23: Accelerating to Zero—Faster Together City of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, U-M updates
• 6-13-23: We ran into some technical difficulties and the presentation was not recorded but you can access the presentation materials.
• 9-12-23: Technologies that get us to carbon neutral
• 10-10-23: We ran into some technical difficulties and the presentation was not recorded but you can access the presentation materials.
• 11-14-23: Energy as a Service Energy Transformation and presentation

Lunch and Learn 2022 Series

Recording Links

• 1-11-22: Washtenaw Climate Action Plan 
• 2-8-22: Native Landscape & Green Infrastructure
• 3-8-22: Collaborating on Building Decarbonization in the City of Ithaca, NY
• 4-12-22: University of Michigan Campus facility strategies
• 5-10-22: Reducing Embodied Carbon: The role of Mass Timber and developing a Circular Wood Economy
• 6-14-22: Building Electrification: An Owner’s and Architects Guide to Heat Pumps
• 9-13-22: Lowering the embodied carbon in steel in carbon capture research and technologies
• 10-11-22: Smarter Buildings: Data Driven Building Performance
• 11-9-22: Affordable, Net Zero Energy Multi Family Housing