Webinar – The Lab at City Light

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This publication, produced by NREL in conjunction with the US Department of Energy and ASHRAE offers essential guidance as we prepare to decarbonize and electrify buildings through the application of heat pump systems. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN This webinar seeks to facilitate answering the following questions: AUDIENCE Building owners, facility managers, HVAC engineers and installers, … Read more

This presentation explores the shift toward air-source heat pump chiller (ASHPC) technology driven by Washington’s evolving energy codes and global decarbonization goals. Participants will learn to define capabilities and differentiate the reality of these machines from their common misconceptions. Also explored will be the technical nuances of modularity and compressor types. You will hear lessons … Read more

How do you electrify a waterfront aquarium while maintaining precise environmental conditions for marine life? This session tells the story of the Ocean Pavilion, from early goals through implementation, highlighting how heat pump technology enabled a low-carbon solution. The presentation connects technical design with climate and operational outcomes. What you will learn Audience Policy makers, … Read more

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Commissioning (Cx) is one of the most impactful actions you can take to ensure your building performs as intended — both today and into the future. Performance commissioning is often the missing step in both new construction and low-carbon retrofit projects and is a leading reason buildings fail to meet energy targets, systems do not … Read more

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Heat pumps are receiving more attention from our industry and homeowners than ever before. And unless you have a plan for how to retrofit this equipment into existing homes, the results may disappoint you. In this session, David Richardson will layout a blueprint for how you can add High Performance Heat Pump Retrofits to your … Read more

Outdoor urban lighting can be a challenging and often poorly understood endeavor. More is not necessarily more for either human vision or security. This discussion is based on a recent series of walks through several areas of downtown Seattle at night with a varied group of participants looking critically at existing installation types and opportunities … Read more

Energy projects don’t fail in engineering – they fail in the boardroom. If decarbonization is such a no-brainer, why are we still selling it with simple payback?Capital exists and is available to push energy projects and decarbonization. We, as an industry, need to be better at how we ask for that capital. In this webinar, … Read more