Mark Brumfield

Mark Brumfield is CEO of HEAPY, a national engineering firm specializing in building systems, energy, sustainability and resilience planning for healthcare, higher education and other complex facilities.

Designing Critical Facilities for a More Volatile Grid

A guide to building resilience in critical facilities as extreme weather and grid instability threaten traditional backup power strategies.

Mark Brumfield

July 8, 2026

Explore how hospitals and other critical facilities must rethink emergency power and resilience strategies as extreme weather and grid stresses create increasingly complex and challenges.

On Demand As AI workloads and high-density computing push traditional cooling methods to their limits, the data center industry is accelerating the adoption of next-generation HVAC technologies.

In this session, we will cover how to design VRF systems for the U.S. market using new A2L refrigerants. These systems provide an advanced zoning solution by using inverter technology to deliver precise heating and cooling control across multiple zones and spaces.

Mark Brumfield

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Designing Critical Facilities for a More Volatile Grid

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