GEO Exchange Corp.
Founded in 1986, GEO Exchange Corp. began in commercial building and real estate development. Our foundational expertise is rooted in world-class heavy engineering. Our founder brings a distinguished global background with industry giants like Bechtel, Texaco, and Arco Chemical—managing the engineering and construction of refineries and chemical plants worldwide, consulting internationally, representing clients at OPEC meetings in Europe, and serving as president of a U.S. domestic refining company.
The complex heat transfer and piping software used in oil refining is fundamentally similar to geothermal systems. GEO Exchange Corp. has successfully adapted these advanced engineering principles to map the critical, real-world relationship between a building, its heat pumps, and the earth.
While geothermal technology is universally proven to be the most efficient heating and cooling method available, the industry has long been held back by outdated tools:
- The Academic Limitation: Existing design software was built for academic research, not real-world business. These tools fail to accurately model how heat pumps operate across the diverse, active zones of a real commercial building.
- The Guesswork Penalty: Because traditional tools lack commercial analytics, designers often add excessive, unnecessary ground piping hoping to lower operating costs. In reality, this blind guesswork just inflates upfront costs, resulting in artificial payback periods of up to 100 years.
- The Market Gap: Without reliable simulation tools to prove real project economics, the architectural and engineering communities have been hesitant to adopt geothermal, leaving it as only a tiny fraction of the HVAC market.
GEO®Hourly is a definitive design software that changes everything. By combining 60 years of proven heat transfer theory with modern industry standards, GEO®Hourly reflects exact, realistic heat pump operations for every single zone in a building.
- Dynamic Simulation: It independently analyzes each zone, accurately simulating single, dual, and variable-capacity compressors.
- Intelligent Adjustments: The software automatically switches to the ideal capacity type the moment a zone's load changes.
- True-to-Life Analytics: It gives architects, engineers, designers, and contractors an exact, real-world preview of how their building design will actually perform.
GEO®Hourly empowers professionals to make highly informed, data-driven decisions. By perfectly balancing upfront ground-loop installation costs against projected annual operating costs, you can eliminate expensive over-engineering and maximize your true return on investment.