Join USGBC California’s Building Decarb committee for a special meeting celebrating product innovations that advance the capability of heat pumps — part of California Heat Pump Week!
Three of the panelists are current participants or recent alumni from USGBC-CA’s Net Zero Accelerator, which speeds the development and commercialization of start ups with sustainable innovations. NZA has supported over a hundred early stage companies in 11 cohorts since 2019.
The fourth panelist shifts the discussion from product innovations to the perspective of an engineer working to deploy heat pumps across hundreds of buildings on 23 campuses in their statewide enterprise: the California State University system.
Panelists for this discussion are:
Samantha Lamos of Gradient Comfort, which won a New York City design competition to enable affordable retrofits in high rise multifamily housing. Their 120 volt window heat pumps install in under 30 minutes.
Jane Melia of Harvest Thermal, an air to water heat pump which stores hot water in a tank that is used for both potable domestic hot water as well as space heating and cooling.
Jordan Sotudeh of Venaera, which targets retrofits for larger buildings with package units. Venaera’s independent, swappable modules increase flexibility of installation, and simplify maintenance.
Rachel Patterson, University Engineer for the California State University Chancellor’ Office, will talk about deploying heat pumps at scale across an enterprise.