BuildingEnergy NYC 2022: Bridging the Gap with Building-Efficiency Technologies

Oct 17, 2022 | Events, News, News and Events

HIGHMARK was on hand to discuss relevant building-efficiency technologies that can help achieve the event’s theme of “Bridging the Gap.”

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BuildingEnergy NYC 2022: Bridging the Gap

NESEA’s BuildingEnergy NYC conference is designed for practitioners in the fields of high-performance building and design, energy efficiency, renewable energy and building/energy policy. The event centers on how to make the built environment more efficient and sustainable.

Within this year’s theme of “Bridging the Gap,” one of the areas the event focused on was the technology gap: “From heat pumps to energy storage, what are the most effective technologies on the market, and how can we deploy them most effectively? How can we ensure that new systems are sized and implemented to maximize efficiency, while accounting for both operational and embodied carbon?”

HIGHMARK on Hand to Discuss Building-Efficiency Technologies

At the event, HIGHMARK hosted a table to discuss in detail how to bridge the gap, specifically from a building-efficiency technologies perspective. On hand to represent the company and answer any questions were Anthony Sannazzaro and James Rizzo.

Photo highlights of the event can be seen here in this section. To view the building-efficiency technologies that were disussed, please see the next section below.

HIGHMARK's James Rizzo and Anthony Sannazzaro (left to right) were on hand to discuss a variety of innovative building-efficiency technologies

Bridging the Gap with Building-Efficiency Technologies

The key to bridging the technology gap is by utilizing innovative building-efficiency products that are already on the market today in the New York City metro area. Examples of these are below, which HIGHMARK offers to support building electrification, decarbonization and cost savings.

These innovative building-efficiency technologies include a wide array of heat pumps for space heating and cooling, as well as domestic hot water; heat-pump water heaters; geothermal heat pumps; and wastewater heat recovery systems — to name just a few. For more information on each of these technologies, click below:

Heat Pumps

Utilizing heat pumps for space heating and cooling, as well as for domestic hot water, is the best way to achieve ambitious electrification, decarbonization, sustainability and cost-savings goals.

Heat-Pump Water Heaters

Air-water-or-geothermal-to-domestic-water heat pumps are also referred to as heat-pump water heaters (HPWHs). They gather heat from the surrounding air or from water and deposit the heat into water at a usable temperature for water heating.

Geothermal Heat Pumps

Geothermal heat pumps (GHPs) use the relatively constant temperature of the earth as the exchange medium instead of the outside air temperature. They function for both space heating and domestic hot water.