LEAN Project Site Visit June 28, 2016

Timing and Locations:

Stop 1: The bus will be leaving from the Omni Parker House at 2:45pm with 30 people to head to Amory (125 Amory Street) to view the lighting upgrades, as well as the Solar Domestic Hot Water System. I expect the travel time to be around 30 minutes. Then the walk through of the building I have anticipated 30 minutes as well.

Stop 2: Then the bus will travel around 20 minutes to Groveland (15 Mary Moore Beatty Circle) to view both the recent lighting upgrades as well as the Air Source Heat Pump Installation. Again I expect this walk through to take about a half hour.

This leaves a rough timeframe of: 2:45pm - Leave Omni Parker House 3:15pm - Arrive Amory 3:45pm - Leave Amory, Head to Groveland 4:15pm - Arrive at Groveland 4:45pm - Leave Groveland 5:15-5:30pm- Arrive back at Omni Parker House

Available for questions will be James Collins, ABCD Multifamily Program Manager, Dan Helmes (BHA Energy Manager), Bruce Ledgerwood (LEAN/ABCD Renewable Programs Manager), Mike Hogan (Paradigm Partners, Installation Project Manager for SDHW and a lighting installation vendor).

Amory Project LEAN completed 2 energy efficiency projects at the Boston Housing Authority residential facility located at 125 Amory Street in Boston. A complete LED lighting retrofit project, which included replacing all common area and exterior lighting, was installed in 2013 which through the utility sponsored (Eversource) Low Income Multifamily Energy Retrofit Program. LEAN also completed the installation of an integrated Solar Domestic Hot Water System in 2012 funded by the U.S. Department of Energy/American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) through the Sustainable Resources for Consumers (SERC) program, and the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (CEC).

Groveland Project

LEAN has also completed 2 efficiency projects at the Boston Housing Authority residential facility located 15 Mary Moore Beatty Circle in Boston. One project was a LED lighting retrofit completed in 2016 which included replacing all common area and exterior lighting and was funded through the utility sponsored (Eversource) Low Income Multifamily Energy Retrofit Program. The second project in this electrically heated property is the installation of Air Source Heat Pumps also funded through the utility sponsored (Eversource) Low Income Multifamily Energy Retrofit Program. 48 apartments at Mary Moore had 12,000 BTU mini splits installed in each unit. 32 of the units were studios. In the remaining 16 one bedroom apartments, air transfer fans were installed between the living room and the bedroom to ensure distribution of heat and cooling into the bedrooms. It is expected that the ASHPs will save the BHA between $400,000 to $500,000 over the 20 year lifetime of the mini splits. At the same time residents of the apartments will enjoy cleaner air, more even heat and cooling, and quieter air conditioning. There will be a slight increase in maintenance costs due to the need to ensure clean filters in the interior heads. Total cost of the mini split project was $183,000, or an average of $3,792 per apartment.