Advancing industry education and collaboration while promoting cold-climate heat pump solutions for energy-efficient multifamily buildings.
Mount Vernon, NY — Ice Air LLC, a leading provider of innovative HVAC solutions, is proud to announce its sponsorship of Passive House Accelerator, an organization committed to advancing high-performance building design and construction through education, knowledge sharing, and industry collaboration.
The sponsorship reinforces Ice Air’s commitment to supporting architects, engineers, developers, and building owners with energy-efficient HVAC solutions that advance building electrification and occupant comfort in multifamily buildings.
Passive House Accelerator connects building professionals, manufacturers, researchers, and industry leaders to advance healthier, more comfortable, and energy-efficient buildings through educational programs, technical resources, and industry collaboration. The organization helps move high-performance building principles from concept into practice.
“We believe that the future of building design depends on bringing together the people who understand the challenges with the people developing solutions,” said Ric Nadel, CEO and Founder of Ice Air. “Passive House Accelerator has created an important forum for that exchange of knowledge. Our sponsorship is about contributing to that conversation, sharing what we have learned through decades of HVAC engineering and manufacturing, and helping the industry find practical ways to achieve higher levels of building performance.”
Through this sponsorship, Ice Air will share its expertise in cold-climate heat pump technology and applications. Ice Air’s recently introduced All Climate Comfort™ Series features decentralized, all-electric heat pump systems designed to deliver efficient, room-by-room comfort without the need for a central heating and cooling plant.
Several products within the series address challenges important to high-performance multifamily building design:
- PTHP XC: An all-electric packaged terminal heat pump featuring variable-speed compressor technology, heating performance certified to -5°F, and available air and thermal barrier options to help address building envelope considerations.
- Vertical Stack XC: A compact, concealed heat pump system with heating performance certified to -5°F, flexible air distribution and an integrated energy recovery ventilation option to support fresh-air requirements.
- Vertical Closet XC: A self-contained, ducted heat pump system designed to serve multiple spaces, with cold-climate heating performance certified to -5°F and an integrated energy recovery ventilation option.
- iCool XC: An ultra-slim, wall-mounted heat pump designed for space-constrained applications, offering variable-speed performance, outside-air ventilation and supplemental electric heating capability for colder conditions.
Ice Air also offers cold-climate domestic hot water heat pumps designed to operate in ambient temperatures as low as -13°F, providing additional opportunities to electrify building systems beyond space heating and cooling. Together, these technologies address several considerations central to high-performance building design.
“The challenge for architects and engineers isn’t simply finding a heat pump. It’s understanding how that equipment will perform in the building they are designing,” said Tom Glass, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Ice Air. “Selecting the right HVAC system requires careful consideration of cold-climate performance, ventilation, sound, space constraints, installation, and energy efficiency. By sharing our engineering expertise and real-world experience with the Passive House Accelerator community, we aim to help design professionals make informed decisions that improve overall building performance.”
Glass added that Ice Air sees education as an important part of its sponsorship. Ice Air is an active participant in providing CEU education for architects and engineers.
“We intend to be active participants, not simply sponsors,” Glass said. “That means sharing technical information, participating in educational discussions and helping architects, engineers developers and building owners understand where decentralized heat pump systems can contribute to high-performance building objectives.”
Passive House principles emphasize reducing building energy demand through effective insulation, airtightness, high-performance windows, thermal bridge reduction and ventilation with heat recovery. Mechanical systems must complement those design strategies while meeting the heating, cooling and ventilation needs of building occupants.
Ice Air believes its decentralized heat pump technologies can provide design professionals with additional options for addressing these requirements, particularly in multifamily new construction and retrofit applications.
For more information about Passive House Accelerator, visit https://passivehouseaccelerator.com/.
For information about Ice Air’s All Climate Comfort™ Series and cold-climate heat pump technologies, visit https://www.ice-air.com/.
About Passive House Accelerator
Passive House Accelerator is a platform for high-performance building education, information sharing and collaboration. Through articles, videos, podcasts, publications, events and professional networking, the organization connects architects, engineers, builders, manufacturers and other industry professionals working to advance energy-efficient, healthy and resilient buildings.
Visit https://passivehouseaccelerator.com/.
About Ice Air
Headquartered in Mount Vernon, NY, Ice Air, LLC is an HVAC OEM with over 50 years of engineering and manufacturing excellence. Ice Air provides advanced, high-efficiency heating and cooling solutions for new construction and retrofit projects. Its portfolio includes Single Packaged Units, PTACs/PTHPs, Water Source Heat Pumps, Fan Coils, Hybrid Water-Cooled ACs and Heat Pump Water Heaters—helping clients across North America meet performance goals while reducing environmental impact.
For more information, visit https://www.ice-air.com/ or contact info@ice-air.com.