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This is Melrose Commons site five, a.k.a. The Eltona.
It's panelized concrete,
fiberglass windows.
This building also pursued lead certification
and had a platinum label.
There are some exciting things going on at this building.
They have central heating, condensing boilers
and window ACs, but they also have
two micro CHP units, basement of five KW each
that serve the common area electric load
and also back up the domestic hot water.
There are also ten little windmills,
wind turbines on the roof of this building
that look really nice and they don't do a lot
because there are other tall buildings in the Bronx.
There is just not enough consistent hard wind
to actually get those to produce anything.
Other than the nuts and bolts of the energy reduction,
there are also some good lifestyle, healthy living
things happening here, too.
Mt. Sinai is doing a study here involved in finding how
green building and healthy living can reduce asthma.
They had begun a two year study with 21 occupants
who before had reported symptoms of asthma.
And they have documented some significant decreases
in short amounts of time.
One drop off after six months and then another
drop off after 12.
Unfortunately, some of those study participants
have moved, so the sample size is 17 people now.
We're told that's not statistically significant.
But it's still a special thing that's happening.
These are these little micro CHP units.
I think you can gang four of them together.
The install costs ended up being pretty high
when these were installed just because it was new.
But Blue Sea is doing this in all of their buildings now
and they've seen that the install costs
have really come down.
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