Skip to main content

Haym Gross

Founding Member

Haym Gross has practiced as an architect for over 30 years, providing design and consulting services to realize diverse projects for commercial, residential and institutional clients.

Sustainability has long been at the center of Haymʼs work. He has completed projects to integrate renewable energy technologies into a range of buildings, including solar electric and thermal projects for multi-family residential properties. Haym has worked on solar plus battery storage projects for resilient emergency power systems at community facilities in flood-prone areas of New York City.

Haym is the founding member of the NYC 2030 District, a partnership of stakeholders which has established a dedicated urban sustainability district, accelerating progress to confront climate change in New York City.

Mark Dougherty

Founding Member

25 years of broad experience in the energy space (efficiency, onsite power gen, renewables, financial solutions, battery storage, software). Director of National Accounts at Qcells (BESS Solution Sales): Provide project analytics/modeling (BESS Sizing, Value Stack, Software Function, Cashflows); Provide BESS Hardware, Design Support, Geli Software Optimization/Co-Optimization and Asset Management over the project life. Serve C&I, Community Scale and Utility markets.

Nicholas Stevens

Founding Member

Nicholas Stevens is the President of Dalmar Energy Solutions which was established in April of 2018 to provide energy consulting, solutions, and education to the community and organizations. Our main goal is to help multifamily and commercial buildings decarbonize by reducing energy, waste and carbon emissions. Dalmar works closely with organizations and communities to help them understand and apply the benefits of using technology to reduce their energy waste and consumption. In various communities. 

Nick has conducted seminars, educating organizations and religious institutions on New York City on Local Energy Laws 88 and 97. Nick works with Con Edison, PSE&G and JCP&L to educate building owners on different incentives to make buildings energy efficient.He is a Certified BPI Multifamily Building Analyst Professional.

David Bergman

Founding Member

David Bergman, RA, LEED AP, CPHD, Assoc AIA, is an architect, author and professor. He is the founder of DavidBergmanEco, author of Sustainable Design: A Critical Guide and the blog EcoOptimism.com, which is dedicated to the belief that positive, often symbiotic, solutions exist to our environmental, economic and social issues. He previously founded Fire & Water, where he designed and produced energy-efficient and materials conscious light fixtures. Bergman is the Program Director for the New York School of Interior Design’s Master of Professional Studies in Sustainable Interior Environments and an adjunct assistant professor at Parsons School of Design. He holds a B.A. in architecture and economics from Yale and an M.Arch from Princeton.

Eric Darrisaw

Founding Member

Eric Darrisaw is a Senior Consultant with Alternative Utility Services, a national energy services practice. AUS and affiliated companies Community Green Energy ( Community Shared Solar Developer) and OnSite Utility Capital (Energy Efficiency as a Service Finance) finances and develops energy efficiency and renewable energy projects. Eric is a Director of Agile Fractal Grid. Inc., a hyper scale computing,energy efficiency systems and advanced technology integration firm specializing in micro grids, data centers and building electrical grids. He advises Sunswarm Solar Inc., a US department of Energy Sun shot program funded Shared Solar marketplace database platform for developers and community groups.

Mr Darrisaw is a member of the Green the Church Campaign, a not for profit ecumenical organization focused on capacity building and Green community development in partnership with Black Church CDCs. Green the Church collaborates with Interfaith Power and Light, US Green Building Council, Green For All and others on green jobs and energy project development in communities of color nationwide.

Additional board members

Kendall Christiansen

Tony Gelber

Jeff Hendler

Martha Sickles

Jeanne Wilcke

NYC 2030 District Committee Founders 2017

Alan J. Gerson, former NYC Council Member, Sierra Club NYC Executive Committee

Nancy Anderson Ph.D, Executive Director, Sallan Foundation

Wendy Brawer, Designer, Founding Director of Green Map System

Vincent Martinez, Director of Research & Operations, 2030 Inc./Architecture 2030

David Bergman, LEED AP, Architect, Author, Adjunct Faculty, Parsons School of Design

Christine Condit, VP, GPS-Environmental, Markit

Neil Weisbard, Counsel, Pryor Cashman LLP

Rory Christian, New York Director, Clean Energy, Environmental Defense Fund

William Schacht, Architect, Faculty Member of Newman Institute at Baruch College

Ben Rosenblum, LEED AP BD+C, Principal, Ben Rosenblum Studio, Designer and Sustainability Consultant

Honey Berk, Managing Director, CUNY Building Performance Lab

Michael Bobker, Director, CUNY Building Performance Lab

Theo M. Pollack, Esq., M.C.R.P., Attorney & Town Planner

Illya Azaroff, AIA, Founder, +LAB Architect PLLC, Assoc. Professor, CUNY CityTech

Tanya P. Dwyer, Esq.,  The Dwyer Law Firm, LLC

Mark Dougherty, Director, Distributed Energy, Direct Energy Business

Crissy Haley, LEED AP O+M, Senior Project Manager, Jones Lang LaSalle

Frank Maricic,  President, EE Reports

Martha Sickles, Urban Planner and Energy Analyst

Fatou Jabbie, LEED AP BD+C, MSc. Sust. Mgt., Founder, USL Technology Inc.

Simon Mugo, Project Manager, Wildan

Maya Jaber, MA, LEED AP, Director of Sustainability, Time Equities Inc.

Eric Darrisaw, Director, Community Green Energy

Wolfgang Werner, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, USGBC Faculty, CPHC, President & CEO Urban Fabrick

Jonathan Lemmond, Senior Engineer, Baumann Consulting

Nicholas Stevens, Dalmar Energy Consulting, Noveda Technologies

Haym Gross, Architect

2030 Districts Network