Tristan Schwartzman is a leading designer and champion of energy-efficiency innovations in Greater New York City, where he is setting a global pace and creating models of innovation for the world. Under Tristan’s direction, Goldman Copeland’s Energy Services Department has completed energy audits and retro-commissioning projects for over 70 million square feet of commercial and institutional properties in the tri-state area. Through these projects, Tristan has optimized energy systems for many of the metropolitan region’s largest commercial and institutional property owners. He serves on the Energy Committee of the American Council of Engineering Companies and advises the New York Energy Consumers Council on energy and sustainability issues. Tristan is a past regional AEE Energy Engineer of the Year recipient.

Tristan’s innovative work through partnerships with both the public and private sectors has created models for the world. Tristan has partnered with both the State and the City of New York to design and implement programs to reduce energy consumption and now leads a project that incorporates best practices into the design and implementation of an initiative to advance the electrification of ventilation air supply for large, multi-family, residential buildings. Tristan has partnered with the private sector in New Jersey to implement energy-reduction initiatives that address the energy challenges and needs of healthcare facilities and institutions of higher education. Tristan has also been central to both the creation and the replication of the first online Geothermal Ground Source Screening Tool in the nation, which enables users to assess the feasibility of geothermal heating and cooling of a specified area, a landmark development for energy efficiency in the United States, with the potential to offer models for expanded use worldwide. Under Tristan’s leadership of its Energy Services Department, Goldman Copeland has been recognized with the ACEC New York Platinum Award in the Environmental Category for the development of this tool.