“ We’re not that far from Johnson Controls managing a commercial building that
happens to have a heat pump with thermal storage, a solar array, a battery system, and a bunch of electric vehicles hooked up to chargers.
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On the commercial side, buildings aren’t just going electric — but also getting smarter. “We’re not that far from Johnson Controls managing a commercial building that happens to have a heat pump with thermal storage, a solar array, a battery system, and a bunch of electric vehicles hooked up to chargers,” says Lessans. In Austin, the RiverSouth building is already being touted as “the smartest building in Texas” and is the first in the state to earn a SmartScore Platinum certification for, among other things, “the ability to monitor, report, and opti- mize energy usage for sustainability purposes,” according to a July 20, 2022, blog post by Stream Realty Partners, the building owners. Interdisciplinary work and partnering with profes- sionals in other industries will become especially important for HVAC businesses working with commercial clients. These contractors will need to understand how that piece of equip- ment might then integrate with a larger building management system and they will need to become familiar with building automation, control systems, and even additional digital inter- faces that might work with those systems, says Lessans. Lessans notes that while a national goal of net-zero carbon
emissions by 2050 is admirable, we’ll only achieve that if we think through the individual steps, follow science, and deter- mine what makes sense in each scenario. Regardless of what the future holds, the national conversation about electrifica- tion does pose a one value-proposition opportunity for the HVAC industry. “The more we can do to familiarize ourselves with the broader array of technologies that are out there and how to respond to various customer requests or various opportunities that arise, the better that will be for all of the players in this industry,” he says.
—Mark Lessans
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