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Harry Gordon
Country: United States
Year joined industry: 1974
Company first worked for: Burt Hill Kosar Rittelmann Associates
Technology area: Solar Architecture/Buildings
Still active in the industry: Yes

In 1974, Harry Gordon was a member of the design team for the largest active solar heating and cooling demonstration
project in the world at that time, the Towns School in Atlanta GA, funded by the 1974 Solar Heating and Cooling
Demonstration Act. Under subcontract to Westinghouse Corporation, he performed all of the solar performance
calculations and produced the construction drawings for this successful demonstration project. He designed many
other active solar installations for non-residential buildings, including office buildings, banks, apartment buildings,
schools, and recreation centers. In 1979, he led the Technical Support team for the US DOE Passive Non-residential
Experimental Buildings Program. Under his technical leadership, 19 non-residential passive solar heating, cooling,
and daylighting buildings were constructed and their energy performance, construction cost, and occupant
response were monitored. He presented these results in the Plenary at the ISES World Congress in Hamburg,
Germany in 1987. He was the primary author of the book Commercial Building Design, documenting the success
of this program. This book (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1988) won the Progressive Architecture Research Award. He
was the primary author of chapters on Non-residential Solar Buildings in ASES Advances in Solar Energy, Volume 3
(Karl Boer, Editor, Plenum Press, 1986) and Solar Building Architecture (Bruce Anderson, Editor, MIT Press, 1990).
Harry Gordon was selected by US DOE as the US Representative to IEA Task XI of the International Solar Heating
and Cooling Program. His work on the use of Atria for passive heating, cooling, and daylighting was published in
Passive Solar Commercial and Institutional Buildings (S. R. Hastings, Editor, John Wiley & Sons, 1994). In 1993, as a
founding member of the AIA Committee On The Environment, he led the Heating and Cooling Team of the Greening
of the White House, announced by President Bill Clinton in his Earth Day Presentation.

Mark Hertel
Country: United States
Year joined industry: 1976
Company first worked for: Honolulu Gas Equipment Company
Technology area: Solar Thermal
Still active in the industry: Yes

Mark Hertel began his solar career in high school by designing a solar heated house inspired by Jack Thomason(?).
After college he took a job helping Honolulu Gas Company enter the solar water heating business in 1976 when
solar was taking off in Hawaii. He worked with Cully Judd and Rick Reed at Inter-Island Solar Supply to put together
a system that went on to be the biggest seller in Hawaii. In 1993 he went to work for IISS and their new panel
manufacturing venture, SunEarth, where he served as Senior Engineer. That effort lead to appointments to the SRCC
Board and President of the Hawaii Solar Energy Association, Chair of ASHRAE TC6.7 Solar Energy Utilization where
he oversaw the rewrite of the ASHRAE Handbook solar chapters to include SRCC and international organizations.
In 2019 he received a Distinguished Service Award from ASHRAE. All this while living in Hawaii where he will retire
at the end of 2020.

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