Steven Guttmann
Faculty, School of Architecture
Steven Guttmann, PE, LEED Fellow, BCxP, CDP is a Principal at Guttmann & Blaevoet with more than 35 years of leadership in sustainable and integrated building design for healthcare, higher education, commercial, residential, and civic projects. Since 1991, he has been a Principal of Guttmann & Blaevoet, a mid-sized consulting engineering firm in California that has received numerous national and regional ASHRAE awards for innovation in sustainable design. Steve is among the first cohort in the USA to receive certification as a Decarbonization Professional from ASHRAE.
Guttmann & Blaevoet is a mid-sized consulting engineering firm in Northern California. Over 90% of the firm’s projects in 2022 were all-electric, signaling a rapid shift in the marketplace as decarbonization becomes a national imperative. Under his leadership, Guttmann & Blaevoet has a track record with introducing and successfully delivering some of the most significant advances in technology applications over the past twenty years, such as UFAD, chilled beams, radiant heating/cooling, and ground source heat pumps; innovations that have helped elevate and revolutionize the built environment.
Steve is also Past President of the Board of the William Worthen Foundation, a non-profit focused on gathering, educating, and inspiring practicable action for resilient communities. The Foundation published the “Building Decarbonization Practice Guide: A Zero Carbon Future for the Built Environment”, for which Steve served as the Principal Investigator and a contributing author.
Steve also served on the ASHRAE Task Force for Building Decarbonization. He has been involved in the efforts of the Task Force since 2021, helped develop the recently published “Decarbonizing Hospital Buildings” as well as Part 1 of “Decarbonizing Building Thermal Systems” published jointly by ASHRAE and NREL in September of 2024. He is also the decarbonization specialist working on ASHRAE’s update to their Cold Climate Design Guide.
Steve has a long history of presenting on topics concerning sustainable design for the built environment, including six years as faculty for the Sustainable Building Advisor Program. His list of presentations at conferences includes GreenBuild (in 2006, 2011, 2012, 2018, and 2020), CleanMed (in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011, and 2019), ASHE conferences (2005 Planning, Design & Construction Conference, and the 2021 Annual Conference), the Living Future UnConference (2016), and the 2023 AIA National Conference, as well as attending the Hospital Build Middle East Conference in 2010 as the keynote speaker.
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