Intro

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Intro
The Boston Housing Authority
A Place to Call Home
An Energy and Water Savings Master Plan for
Public Housing
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Overview

• BHA Background
• The Rebuild Partnership and Early Assessments
• Performance Contracting
• Development of an Authority-wide Master Plan
• Key Initiatives and Issues Moving Forward

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BHA Background
Charlestown development 1939
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BHA Background cont.
The BHA is the largest landlord in the City of
Boston, housing roughly 10 of the total
population.

• The BHA owns nearly 14,000 units and houses about
  27,000 people in the public housing program
• All building types in every neighborhood
• 11,000 families receive vouchers
• Employs nearly 900 people

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Resident Participation
Local Tenant Organizations

• Monitoring
• Committee

Resident Advisory Board
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Barriers to Energy Efficiency
The BHA has historically faced many barriers to
energy efficiency

• Diversity of building types and systems--no
  effectivie monitoring
• Historically little or no incentive to save
• Chronic Underfunding (2 billion capital
  backlog)
• Age and Condition of Stock end-of-life systems,
  deferred maintenance
• Public procurement and regulatory barriers

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Utility Costs

• Electric 11.3 million
• Gas 8.5 million
• Oil 1.3 million
• Water/Sewer 7.5 million
• Steam .20 million

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REBUILD Partnership and Early Assessments

• Key Capacity Building and Technical Assistance
• Data Gathering re Savings Potential
• Funding Assistance
• RFP Development
• Advancing the first Performance Contracts

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Performance Contracting

• ESCO I (federal) and ESCO II (state) Projects
• 8 sites totaling 17 million in upgrades
• 22 million in savings over 10 years

• Measures
• Centralized oil/steam to distributed gas systems
• Gas DHW Water at some sites
• Water Conservation toilets, shower-heads, sink
  aerators

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Performance ContractingLessons Learned

• Importance of baseline data
• Proper Contract Scoping
• Partnership/Relationship Building
• Understand the portfolio from an ESCO perspective
• Leveraging the learning curves BHA, HUD, DHCD,
  Utilities, ESCOs, etc.

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Development of an Authority-wide Energy and Water
Savings Master Plan

• Recommended Measures with Cost and Savings
  Projections
• Recommended OM Policies and Procedures
• Performance Contract and HUD/DHCD Summary Data
• Utility Program Recommendations
• Energy Information Monitoring Recommendations
• Utility and Equipment Procurement Recommendations

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Current Energy Initiatives

• ESCO III 5418 units at 15 sites 2.8 million in
  annual savings over 12 years
• Nstar and Keyspan-sponsored Initiatives
• Weatherization and Energy Star
• Healthy Public Housing and other Energy/Health
  Pilots
• MRET Grant at Maverick Gardens

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Healthy Public Housing

• Healthy Homes Grant
• Identifying, documenting and reducing indoor
  environmental hazards

Health, particularly in poor communities, often
gets left unnoticed. Residents would like some
health concerns resolved before the worst could
happen. -Deidre Butler Henderson, Former
Executive Director, West Broadway Tenant Task
Force-
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Maverick Hope VI

• With a grant from the Mass. Tech.
  Collaborative, Maverick Gardens will be a green
  building model for affordable housing

OrchardParkbefore
Former BHA Hope VI at OrchardGardens
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Key Issues Moving Forward

• Utility Data
• Utility Partnerships
• Effective Monitoring
• Getting the most out of an ESCO contract
• Integrating Health and Energy Measures
• REBUILD and other technical assistance

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The End