Tristan Schwartzman, a Principal and Director of Energy Services at Goldman Copeland, has been named ACEC New York’s New Principal of the Year. The award was presented at a ceremony on June 6 at the Union League Club. It recognizes an outstanding engineer who has been a firm principal for five years or fewer. Tristan became a Principal at Goldman Copeland in 2019, having been named Director of Energy Services in 2016.
Tristan is a major champion and award-winning designer of energy-efficiency innovations in the Greater New York City metropolitan area. He and his team have completed energy audits and retro-commissioning projects for over 70 million square feet of commercial and institutional properties. They have generated significant energy savings from these audits for Vornado and SL Green, the two biggest landlords in New York City. They have conducted extensive audit and retro-commissioning work for Morgan Stanley, Hines, and other major landlords. In that regard, Goldman Copeland earned the ACEC New York Platinum Award in the Energy Category for its work upgrading the Penn South Central Plant Infrastructure, which has delivered a 30% reduction in energy usage.
Tristan has partnered with the public sector (NYSERDA and the City of New York) and the private sector (PSE&G and New Jersey Natural Gas) to implement programs to reduce energy consumption in New York and New Jersey. With NYSERDA, he helped pilot a statewide energy-saving initiative. In New Jersey, he and his team have conducted energy audits and/or engineered energy-efficiency improvements for many of the state’s leading healthcare systems and institutions of higher education.
At a time of vital importance for energy efficiency regionally and nationally, Tristan has been central to the creation and replication of the first online Geothermal Ground Source Screening Tool in the nation. Created in 2018 for the City of New York, the New York City tool, for which Goldman Copeland won an ACEC New York Platinum Award in the Environmental Category, enables users to simply assess the feasibility of geothermal heating and cooling for every lot in the city – nearly 900,000 lots in all five boroughs.
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