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SyracuseCoE is dedicated to bringing together researchers, industry leaders and technical practitioners to exchange the ideas and experiences that accelerate innovations from the lab to the market. Each month, we hold a Research and Technology Forum that highlights research, collaborations and projects by faculty and Partners. The event provides an interdisciplinary platform to network, brainstorm and actively interact to share groundbreaking achievements in environmental and energy systems technologies.
Upcoming Events
Events in May 2025
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May Research & Technology Forum: "A Mixed Use Multifamily Building with GSHPs for Space and Water Heating" May Research & Technology Forum: "A Mixed Use Multifamily Building with GSHPs for Space and Water Heating"
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May 14, 2025Register today for SyracuseCoE's May Research & Technology Forum, featuring a presentation from Hugh I. Henderson, P.E., Owahgena Consulting, Inc.
A Mixed Use Multifamily Building with GSHPs for Space and Water Heating
Zer0 Place is a new multifamily building with retail spaces on the first floor in New Paltz, NY. This high-efficiency building installed geothermal heat pumps for space heating and space cooling. Additional heat pumps were also installed on the ground loop to provide domestic water heating (DHW). Detailed monitoring was installed in this building to measure and analyze its energy performance over multiple years. The results demonstrated the heat pump systems performed well, with considerable synergy from meeting the space conditioning and DHW loads using the same ground heat exchanger.
About the Speaker:
Hugh Henderson has more than 30 years of experience evaluating energy technologies through on-site evaluation, field monitoring, and energy simulations.
He has worked with a wide array of conventional and innovative HVAC technologies. His areas of expertise include geothermal heat pumps, cold climate air source heat pumps (ccASHPs), innovative cooling systems, CHP, industrial processes, and heat recovery. He is an expert in advanced cooling and dehumidification technologies, and thermal storage systems.
Mr. Henderson holds both Bachelor and Masters Degrees in Agricultural (Mechanical) Engineering from Cornell University. He is a Professional Engineer in New York and is an active member in several technical ASHRAE committees related to heat pumps, air conditioning, and residential HVAC. He is a member of ASHRAE TC 6.8 Geothermal Utilization.
Mr. Henderson is providing ongoing technical support to NYSERDA and the Joint Utilities in NY for the Clean Heat program that provides incentives for various heat pump technologies. He is developing standardized calculations for ccASHPs and ground source heat pumps (GSHPs) for the NY Technical Resource Manual as well as approaches for custom incentive calculations. He has also led field monitoring efforts on several of NYSERDA’s pilot field tests of ccASHPs (Hudson Valley, Brooklyn, Queens), GSHPs, VRF systems, and Air-to-Water Heat Pump systems.
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