Gordon Sharp Email & Phone Number

Gordon Sharp is the President of I2SL, the International Institute for Sustainable Laboratories, a non-profit organization dedicated to decarbonizing and making laboratories more sustainable across the world. Gordon is also the president of Airflow Kinetics that is designing large airflow based kinetic sculptures that combine art, science, & technology to create truly mesmerizing yet educational public art installations. Gordon is the inventor of many important, widely applied technologies that have had a significant impact on lab sustainability and energy efficiency such as sash sensing VAV fume hood and laboratory airflow controls, the electronic venturi airflow valve, and demand based control of lab ventilation. He is also the founder of two major companies in the lab sustainability field: Phoenix Controls, a well respected laboratory airflow controls company, and Aircuity, a leader in healthy and energy efficient ventilation for laboratory and commercial buildings where he is now a board member. The many technologies invented by Gordon at Phoenix Controls and Aircuity are today saving well over $2.5 billion annually in energy use and cutting over 7.5 million metric tons annually in carbon emissions from thousands of commercial and laboratory facilities around the world. Gordon is also an MIT graduate with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering. He has over 35 years of experience and over 35 patents covering energy efficiency, indoor environmental quality, laboratory controls, and artistic visual displays. He is an ASHRAE Fellow and was an ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer for many years. He has served as a voting member of the ASHRAE Standard 170 on Healthcare Ventilation, the ANSI Standard Z9.5 on Laboratory Ventilation, the ASHRAE TC9.10 committee on Laboratories and the TC9.11 committee on Clean Spaces. He has also testified before the US Congress on the topics of climate change and energy efficiency.