Register: https://www.wildcenter.org/adkbuildingconference/
oin builders, designers, code officials, tradespeople, and material suppliers for a one-day, interactive training on the Adirondack Building Conference: 2025 Energy Conservation Construction Code of New York State (ECCCNYS). Led by industry practitioners, the workshop will highlight key code updates, compliance strategies, and best practices for energy-efficient, climate-aligned residential construction. Participants will gain practical tools to meet New York State’s evolving building requirements while advancing shared goals for housing quality, decarbonization, and workforce capacity across Northern New York. Opportunities to connect with industry vendors.
Continuing Education: (1) AIA LU/HSW, (1) PDH, and (1) GBCI CEU additional credits are pending official approval from DOS; however, we can offer the course as PDE.
Agenda
8 am: Doors open for vendors & coffee hour
9 am: Event begins ; Keynote: Chris Sgroi, Senior Project Manager for Codes & Standards with NYSERDA
9:30 – 11:30 am: Introduction to the Residential 2025 ECCCNYS by Builders for Builders with Kevin Stack, CEO of Building in Nature’s Image
Session Description: This interactive training will guide you through the significant changes to the 2025 ECCCNYS and identify the new provisions and the key revisions from a builder's perspective.
As energy codes continue to evolve, successful compliance requires a clear understanding of code intent, building performance, and the trade-offs inherent in each of the three compliance pathways. This builder-led training introduces the 2025 ECCCNYS through the practical lens of constructability, cost control, building science, and long-term building performance.
Participants will examine key changes from prior code cycles and explore how those changes impact building enclosures, mechanical systems, and verification requirements. Real-world case studies will demonstrate how builders can meet—or exceed—code requirements cost-effectively, while simultaneously improving durability, comfort, resilience, and project management.
Designed for builders, remodelers, trades, and code officials, this session bridges the gap between regulation and real-world construction—supporting better decisions in the field and more consistent, effective code implementation across New York State.
11:30 am – 1 pm: Lunch & Vendor Expo
1 – 2 pm: Code Based Resilience with Josh Stack, Founder & Principal at Stack Resilience LLC
Session Description: This session introduces a builder's framework of using the 2025 NYS Energy and Uniform Code to achieve above code resilience measures for key disturbances including extreme heat, flooding, severe storms, power outages, and other disturbances faced by North Country designers, builders, and building owners. The presentation is based on the presenter's experience developing more stringent local energy and green building codes, code based extreme heat best practices, and passive building and building science based solutions for the residential built environment.
2:15 – 4:15 pm: Significant Changes to 2025 Residential Code of New York State with Arthur Pakatar, The Pakatar Group, LLC
Session Description: This training highlights key updates in the 2025 Residential Code of New York State, focusing on important changes to the Building and Electrical chapters. Designers, builders, and developers will gain practical insight into revised requirements for structural design criteria, fire protection, alarms, stairs and emergency egress, energy storage systems, decks, and guards, as well as new electrical provisions for emergency disconnects, surge protection, and expanded GFCI locations. The course emphasizes what’s new, what’s changed, and what it means for residential project design and construction as the 2025 code takes effect on December 31, 2025.
4:15 – 5 pm: Reception & Networking in the Great Hall