Life cycle costing and carbon calculations for capital planning and building performance evaluation

MAYBE - I like NYCHA would be attending and hopefully explaining how they use LCAs for their short-term strategies and long-term planning. However, I'd like them to use case studies and specific examples of how LCAs enabled better collaboration between stakeholders for successful capital planning and site improvements.   

NO

ROUND 1 DISCUSSION: Ariel: previous topic (127) addresses this topic better and has more examples. Jen: familiar with their work, seen presentation of what NYCHA's doing, comparing six different retrofit strategies. Not as specific as 127, but still quite interesting. Really popular when they presented it before. Gwen: might provide an actionable skill people can use right away. Christina: useful to include because of the financial constraints that NYCHA has to work within. This is a bit more "boots on the ground" than 127. Worth keeping in the ring, is there room?

ROUND 2 - Moving this from NO to MAYBE. 5/21/21 - Zoom meeting coversation notes from 9:30am to 10:00am -  was briefly introduced to/spoke with Vlada who had to leave the Zoom meeting, Vlada recommended that we use the “tool” they put together, as she believes it would be very useful for implementing best EE solutions. The conversation continued with Peter (FST) & Katya (NYCHA) - Peter does not have much experience with the private sector building stock. Discussed that their financial calculation/strategy was setup solely for the public sector and municipalities, however the carbon and energy savings calculations could be replicated because the NYCHA building stock is composed of similar buildings typology/bucket of ECMs.  Case studies of how to make a central stream plant more efficient or common challenges to electrify NYCHAs buildings with heat pumps (geothermal, VRFs), and how it will be difficult to bring more electricity capacity from the utility companies could be discussed in 30-45 mins followed by a Q&A.  As they do not have a draft presentation readily available, we outlined a potential template on how “LL97 & CMA” impacts municipal buildings like NYCHA, and their carbon goals as outlined by the Mayor’s office. They would like to know the timeline to submit a presentation if they make the cut for the next round of final deliberations. Ariel to get back to Peter over email.

ROUND 2 DISCUSSION:  Focus on the public sector, NYCHA buildings. Tool that could possibly be applied to other types of buildings as well. Missing private sector component, unless they can speak to applicability. Would need active curation. Decision: NO