14 California Buildings News • Q1 2020
Expo Honors Outstanding HVAC Products Retrofitting Buildings by Installing More Efficient Systems Is Key
In California, we know enough about designing HVAC systems in new facilities to significantly reduce energy uses. When designers work with facility engineers to situate new buildings in a manner best suited to require less cooling, heating or lighting, we achieve savings. When occupancy controls, sensors and functional analytics are built into the new structures we get further savings. When “smart” windows are installed, we get another reduction in energy use. Same with daylighting designs, better ventilation and so on. All newer buildings should take advantage of more sustainable designs. But since the
AHR Expo 2020 in Orlando. Photos: Geoff Stevens.
world’s building stock is overwhelmingly already in existence— much of it many decades old—the real issue is how we can retrofit existing structures to create more efficient HVAC. We must look to manufacturers for the best solutions. See the following pages for a partial list of products honored in the 2020 AHR Expo Innovation Awards competition.
