Charles "Charlie" Copeland makes it look easy being green — and that's why he's been named ENR New York's Legacy Award winner for 2019!

The president and CEO of engineering firm Goldman Copeland has been providing consulting engineering services there for 50 years. He’s engineered many of the most iconic and award-winning structures in NYC, and has particularly made his mark developing innovative solutions to energy challenges.

He isn’t resting on his laurels, either. This year, Copeland won the 2019 ACEC Platinum Award for the chiller plant/cooling tower infrastructure upgrade at the Penn South affordable housing complex, which generates its own electricity and is off the grid. In 2018, he won another ACEC Platinum Award, for a geothermal pre-screening tool — of which he was principal in charge — for all 850,000 lots in NYC.

Copeland's historical energy accomplishments include: designing, in 1975, one of the city’s earliest multifamily residential solar collector domestic hot water systems; in 1988, managing engineering for the New York City Energy Conservation Capital Program, the largest municipal energy conservation program of its kind in the U.S.; developing with Con Ed, in 2015, a now-patented steam demand automatic control strategy for high-rise offices to reduce peak winter demand.

他设计了标志性结构等标志性结构的机械/电气基础设施，例如帝国大厦，古根海姆博物馆和大中央终端，在那里创建了升至大天花板的空心柱，以交付空调，以对内部的视觉影响最小。他为百老汇和百老汇公司提供了幕后系统，例如舒伯特组织，哈林舞蹈剧院和回旋处剧院公司。他在Grand Central和ESB的工作赢得了纽约地标保护奖。

Copeland will be honored atENR New York's Best Projects Awards breakfast on Oct. 2. His profile will be published in the January issue of ENR New York.