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Effective, Energy Efficient and Zero Carbon Buildings

Decarbonization Strategies provides design guidance, design review, program design and owner project representation.  

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Decarbonization Strategies

Decarbonization Strategies is a consulting firm dedicated to strategic consulting and guidance for organizations with building decarbonization goals.  We guide building owners and developers through every stage of program and project development for new construction, renovations, and retrofits. Specializing in data centers, laboratories, cleanrooms, office buildings, airports, and academic institutions.

Peter Rumsey

President and CEO

Peter Rumsey is a nationally recognized leader in Building Energy Efficiency and Decarbonization. During his decades long career, he designed the country’s most innovative, low energy and most sustainable buildings.  He is the first and only engineer to personally work on over 60 LEED platinum projects.  He designed the country’s first net zero energy (NZE) commercial office building, NZE museum and NZE laboratory. He pioneered the use of radiant cooling in office buildings, chilled beams in labs and super low pressure drop mechanical systems. 

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Building Decarbonization Learning Accelerator

Peter founded and directs the Stanford Building Decarbonization Learning Accelerator.  The BDLA creates and curates building decarbonization teaching resources for learning institutions, organizations and private sector companies globally.  Over 200 universities use the material and participate in BDLA activities.

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Services

Decarbonization Strategies offers a range of services, including building concept design, decarbonization program oversight and strategy, building design oversight and review, venture assessments, team training programs, and speaking engagements.

Peter Rumsey's Projects

Exelixis

while at Point Energy Innovations

AIA

while at Point Energy Innovations

NCAR - Wyoming Supercomputing Center

while at Rumsey Engineers/Integral Group

J. Craig Venter Lab at UCSD

while at Rumsey Engineers/Integral Group

Infosys

Decarbonization Strategies' Clients

Peter Rumsey

Peter founded Rumsey Engineers, now part of Entroba and Point Energy Innovations [link to PEI website], now run by two leading engineers he mentored.  Through these companies Peter set out to transform the building industry by creating examples of the world’s most innovative and most sustainable buildings. After three decades of ground breaking work, his buildings have been visited by thousands and have set the benchmark for low energy and innovative buildings. 

Peter is a registered professional engineer in several states and a fellow of both the Association of Energy Engineers and ASHRAE. He has the distinction of having served as a Senior Fellow of Rocky Mountain Institute and working frequently with Amory Lovins. In 2012 he was awarded the Renewable Energy Innovator of the Year by the Association of Energy Engineers. He teaches at Stanford University and is a frequent lecturer at universities and trade associations around the US and abroad. 

Peter is a consultant and has advised many innovative start up and VC companies including Nest, Building Robotics, Luminergi, Serious Materials, Alpen Glass, Foundation Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and the Westly Group.

Peter is known for his spirit of innovation, creativity and passion for buildings. He values mentoring the next generation of leaders and improving the triple bottom line for his clients. 

Exelixis

Peter Rumsey advised biotech company, Exelixis, on decarbonizing their headquarters, helping achieve LEED Gold certification through energy efficiency, HVAC, kitchen, and renewable designs, resulting in high employee satisfaction due to comfort, air quality, glare-free views, and fewer temperature complaints.

AIA

AIA

Peter’s guidance enabled AIA to renovate their headquarters in Washington, D.C., the country’s first fully decarbonized building in both operations and embodied carbon.  (completed by Peter Rumsey while at a previous firm)

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NCAR

NCAR - Wyoming Supercomputing Center

Designed with no compressor based cooling, the NCAR data center uses ultra efficiency indirect evaporative cooling to provide low cost, abundant cooling to the nation’s leading supercomputer that models the global climate.  (completed by Peter Rumsey while at a previous firm)

J. Craig Venter Lab

J. Craig Venter Lab at UCSD

Designed at the nation’s first net zero energy laboratory.  The building used best in class energy efficiency and electrification strategies combined with an integrated PV system that met the building’s energy needs.  (completed by Peter Rumsey while at a previous firm)

Infosys

Infosys

Peter Rumsey guided Infosys in a program that has reduced the energy use of the 40 million SF real estate portfolio of one of India’s largest tech firms. With savings of over $200 million dollars and counting Infosys’ energy program is the most successful of any large corporation in the world.