Program Highlights — The Net Zero Accelerator

FEATURED CASE STUDIES

USGBC-LA and the Net Zero Accelerator are honored to partner with Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) to showcase case studies for companies delivering solutions to achieve net zero. We can think of no better orientation, particularly for all of us greening the built environment, to defend the environment.

Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)
One of the world’s leading international nonprofit organizations, Environmental Defense Fund (edf.org) creates transformational solutions to the most serious environmental problems. To do so, EDF links science, economics, law, and innovative private-sector partnerships. With more than 3 million members and offices in the United States, China, Mexico, Indonesia and the European Union, EDF’s scientists, economists, attorneys and policy experts are working in 28 countries to turn our solutions into action.

ByFusion

ByFusion, based in Los Angeles and a member of the 2019 inaugural NZA cohort, partnered with Boise community, Dow, and Reynolds Consumer Products to address the Boise community's unrecyclable plastic problem with ByFusion’s MDP technology and the Hefty® ReNew® program. The pilot diverted a total of 80 tons of hard-to-recycle plastics from landfills.

RECENT SUCCESSES

Hempitecture + The Roots House

Hempitecture partnered with Cal Poly Pomona and Orange County Sustainability Decathlon to demonstrate HempWool® Insulation’s effective capacity as a nontoxic material that is easy to handle and extremely energy efficient.

RWI Synthetics + Boyle Heights

RWI Synthetics partnered with Urban Land Institute (ULI-LA) and U.S. Green Building Council-Los Angeles to generate advanced simulation and data visualizations that provide insights about the community that will help stakeholders make effective decisions.

KitSwitch

KitSwitch partnered with SAN MAR Properties and Rocky Mountain Institute to enable low income senior housing residents to have energy-efficient and fully electric kitchens.

MeterLeader

MeterLeader partnered with USGBC-LA and the Los Angeles Sustainability Executives Roundtable (LASER) to help member organizations engage their employees, tenants, and/or residents in reducing carbon emissions. Emissions reduction data is aggregated and reportable for ESG purposes.

CleanRobotics

CleanRobotics partnered with Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles (CHLA) to help recycle more would-be waste as well as educate the public on how to sustainably manage products after end-use. The solution also helps to improve custodian efficiencies and costs.

ePAVE

ePAVE with its patented, reflective pavement coating material specifically designed and engineered to preserve asphalt and concrete. ePAVE outsources the application of their product to concrete application firms, which they train to apply the product correctly to produce a strong bond, appropriately address cracks and other issues on the underlying surface, and ensure an aesthetically pleasing finish. In June 2021, the company applied ePAVE to two parking/loading docks for soundstages, totalling 1,800 SF, at Gower Studios, which is owned by pilot partner Hudson Pacific Properties.

KomfortIQ

Komfort IQ was engaged by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) to lower the HVAC energy use load and improve the comfort, health, and well-being of their occupants at the La Kretz Innovation Campus, where USGBC-LA and our colleagues at LACI have offices.

ONYX

ONYX’s team deployed four of their Rhino mobile clean power systems to California State University Northridge (CSUN) to be used to power equipment for outdoor events per CSUN requirements, which include safe, clean energy with little to no noise.

TBM Designs

TBM worked with the leadership team at California State University Long Beach (CSULB) to uniquely install the InVert™ self-shading window system to greatly reduce energy demand and associated costs as well create an iconic structure on the CSULB campus.

PILOT PROJECT CASE STUDIES