A two-year project to convert a
public housing building to an electrically powered heat pump system is nearing
completion on the Upper West Side. The 58-year-old 20-story tower at 830
Amsterdam Avenue (100th Street), part of the New York City Housing Authority
(NYCHA) Frederick Douglass Houses development, is being retrofitted to provide
heating, cooling, and hot water for residents—and to serve as a possible
template for converting more of the 2,410 buildings NYCHA maintains citywide
The $28 million project….…to replace
the aging boilers at 830 Amsterdam Avenue with a heat pump system, called
variable flow refrigerant, that would deliver heat, hot water, and cooling to
the building’s 159 units. The cost is
thus $176,100 per unit.
Parking places were also lost to the heat pump units.
https://www.westsiderag.com/2023/10/28/heat-pump-project-in-frederick-douglass-houses-nears-completion-powered-by-electricity
An earlier effort to install a different kind of heat pump mechanism on the roof of the Fort Independence Houses in the Bronx experienced similar challenges, with program manager Jordan Bonomo quoted in a story about that project on the Grist media platform explaining, “Each apartment had a story. We quickly realized that while we like the technology, we couldn’t possibly scale that across our portfolio.”https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2023-11-28-some-more-energy-reality-in-new-york-city
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