1Category: Events

This July, two of our partners will take the helm of one of the AEC industry’s most anticipated annual events. Partner and Principals Jason Jewhurst, FAIA, and Dana Kelly will co-chair Facades+ Boston, taking place on July 23, 2026. 

Co-chaired with The Architect’s Newspaper, Facades+ is the premier conference series on high-performance building enclosures that brings together architects, engineers, fabricators, and developers across North America to advance the conversation around facade design, technology, and sustainability. Attendees can earn up to six AIA HSW continuing education credits. 

We’re also thrilled to share that Senior Associates George Gard and Christopher Nielson, and Associate Stephanie Salsman, will be presenting and moderating at the event. 

The full speaker program will be announced in the coming weeks, and we couldn’t be more excited for what’s shaping up to be a day of conversation, ideas, and connection with the broader design community. 

Visit the Facades+ Boston conference website to learn more and register: https://facadesplus.com/boston26/  

Senior Associate Christopher Nielson, CPHC, LEED AP, spoke at this year’s Carbon Experts Summit, as part of Boston’s inaugural Climate Week, held May 3–10, 2026. 

Boston Climate Week brought together over 5,000 attendees across more than 100 events citywide, uniting climate innovators, policymakers, researchers, and industry leaders around a shared commitment to accelerating Boston’s sustainable future.  

The Carbon Experts Summit, co-hosted by One Click LCA and BE+, brought together AEC professionals, City of Boston representatives, and sustainability practitioners for an afternoon of real-world case studies, regulatory insights, and practical strategies for reducing embodied carbon in the built environment. 

Christopher presented a session titled “Technical Workflows for Carbon Reduction”, sharing how design teams can embed carbon analysis into their practice in meaningful, actionable ways. We’re grateful for the opportunity to contribute to this important conversation!  

This April, Partner and Principal Jason Jewhurst, FAIA, traveled to Seattle to attend and present at Living Future 2026, the 20th anniversary of the annual conference hosted by the International Living Future Institute.  

Now in its third decade, the Living Future Conference is the world’s leading forum for regenerative design. This year’s theme, Designing the Next 100 Years, invited attendees to look beyond immediate challenges and toward long-view design practices that center resilience, ecological stewardship, and intergenerational responsibility. 

Jason participated in a session offering an introduction to the Living Building Challenge, tracing where the program and the broader Living Future movement came from, and where they’re headed. He brought an architect’s perspective to the conversation, grounded in nearly a decade of hands-on experience with the program: as principal-in-charge of the R.W. Kern Center at Hampshire College, the first Living Building–certified project in our portfolio, and of the Living Village at Yale Divinity School, currently pursuing Living Building Challenge 4.0 certification.  

We’re proud to be active participants in the Living Future community, and grateful for every opportunity to contribute to a movement that has, and continues to shape the way we think about sustainable design. 

Senior Associate Christopher Nielson and Architect Madison Rogers traveled to Portland, OR for the International Mass Timber Conference, one of the leading gatherings for architects, engineers, and builders at the forefront of mass timber design and construction. 

The trip was especially timely as both Christopher and Madison are currently working on the Mayflower Hill Residence Hall at Colby College, a new mass timber project designed in collaboration with Hopkins Architects. The conference offered valuable opportunities to engage with the latest research, innovations, and built work in the field, from technical sessions and project tours to conversations with practitioners pushing the boundaries of what mass timber can do. 

We’re grateful for the learning and connections the conference provided, and excited to bring those insights back to our work at Colby and beyond. Mass timber is increasingly central to how we think about sustainable design, and experiences like this reinforce our commitment to staying at the leading edge.  

Members of the firm spent nearly a week in Los Angeles, the capital of West Coast modernism, for the 2026 DOCOMOMO International Conference.

The conference focused on the challenges and opportunities surrounding the preservation of modern architecture, with an emphasis on the critical roles of climate, community, and creativity. Bruner/Cott was honored to contribute to this important dialogue through a presentation addressing the future of sustainable modern architecture.

Senior Associate George H. Gard, AIA presented our work at Gund Hall, sharing key insights from his paper on the Environmental and Historic Conservation of Modernism. The paper was co-authored with Patrick Murphy of Vanderweil Engineers and Dan Weissman, AIA, IALD, CLD, IES of Lam Partners. George was joined by B/C Associate and Manager of Marketing & Communications, Stephanie Salsman.

They left LA energized by new perspectives and reaffirmed in our commitment to advancing the sustainable stewardship and evolution of modern buildings, proving that modernism isn’t just something to preserve, but something to continue to transform.

Thank you to Docomomo US, DOCOMOMO US – SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER, and the USC School of Architecture for hosting a thoughtful and inspiring conference!

Members of the Bruner/Cott team joined colleagues and collaborators at the 2026 North Atlantic Regional SCUP conference, hosted March 8-10th in Hartford, Connecticut!

Framed around themes of integrated planning, resilience, and institutional transformation, this year’s conference emphasized the importance of aligning facilities, sustainability, and student experience in an era of constrained resources and urgent climate goals. Bruner/Cott was honored to contribute to the dialogue through two session presentations that reflect our ongoing work with higher education institutions:

Partner and Principal Jason Forney joined partners from Williams College and Perkins&Will to share how the college is coordinating multiple planning efforts—including decarbonization, housing, athletics, and dining—into a unified, actionable framework. The session explored how integrated planning can help institutions balance competing priorities, manage infrastructure constraints such as limited electrical capacity, and unlock opportunities for deep energy retrofits, accessibility improvements, and an enhanced student experience.

Senior Associate George Gard presented alongside collaborators from Harvard University and Redgate on the transformative renewal of Gund Hall. The session reframed deferred maintenance as an opportunity to advance institutional mission and achieve design excellence. Through an integrated planning approach, the session demonstrated how even highly constrained projects can catalyze meaningful, long-term transformation.

We returned to Boston excited to continue these conversations with our partners and collaborators. Thank you to the SCUP conference committees for hosting another successful event; we are looking forward to the SCUP National Conference this July in Minneapolis!