Representative Project Experience – Low Energy Mechancial Systems

Michael has been designing low-energy projects since 1975, advocating for solar heating and cooling and energy conservation at every possible opportunity. He designed the mechanical system for the low-energy Colorado Mountain College Multipurpose Building in Steamboat Springs in 1991, surpassing the review by an independent energy consultant.

 

Ground-Source Heat Pumps (GSHP)

Poudre School District – Operations Center, Fort Collins, Colorado

Century Elementary School Mechanical Renovation

Sedalia Residence, Colorado

Ice-Thermal Storage

Lucile Erwin Middle School Ice Thermal Storage System, Loveland, Colorado

Thompson Valley High School

Palmer Ridge High School – Peer Review & Commissioning Support

Solar & Renewable Energy

Shambhala Mountain Center – Rigden Lodge, Red Feather Lakes, Colorado – Radiant heating and domestic solar hot water

Sedalia Residence, Sedalia, Colorado – Radiant and ground-coupled heat pump heating and cooling

Silver Sage Village, Boulder, Colorado – Radiant heating, domestic solar hot water, and DX cooling

Indian Hills Residence, Indian Hills, Colorado – Net Zero, Solar Thermal, Variable Volume Heat Recovery, Radiant heat, and Air Coils

Harvest House, Boulder, Colorado – Net Zero Energy Home Consultation

Reed Residence, Crestone, Colorado – Solar Thermal System Addition

Radiant Heating and/or Cooling

Shambhala Mountain Center – Rigden Lodge, Red Feather Lakes, Colorado

Silver Sage Village, Boulder, Colorado

Variety of systems including High-efficiency boilers, VFDs, CO2 Control, evaporative cooling, and more

Century Elementary School, Aurora, Colorado – Renovation of HVAC system

Colorado Mountain College Multipurpose Building, Steamboat Springs

HVAC design in 1991 involving VAV air handling system with direct evaporative cooling and compact high-efficiency boilers, as well as plumbing and fire protection for 44,000 sf building housing class­rooms, offices, laboratory, and auditorium spaces. Energy-efficient features inlcuded high efficiency motors.

LEED

Denver Place – LEED for Existing Buildings (EB) pilot project, Denver, Colorado – LEED AP and LEED Engineering Consultant

Equinix LA4 Data Center, Los Angeles, California – review of LEED submittal documents

Peer Review / Commissioning Support / Troubleshooting & forensics

Palmer Ridge High School – Peer Review & Commissioning Support

Schriever Data Center troubleshooting

Net-zero Energy

Indian Hills Residence

Harvest House, Boulder, Colorado – Net Zero Energy Home Consultation