Assistant Commissioner/ Chief Sustainability Officer at New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development
HPD Retrofit Electrification Pilot's 1st Ephoca Installation! Last week, Christa Shopis from Taitem Engineering walked through installation, air-sealing and dual-wiring details with New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development, Lemle & Wolff Companies, OCV, KOW, Applied HVAC, RL Mechanical and All Purpose Electrical. This gut rehab project is converting 9 units of affordable housing in the Bronx from oil to high-performance heat pumps for space heating and hot water, and includes significant envelope work (roof, windows, wall insulation). The project received over $235,000 from NYSERDA for this project. Special thanks to this great team: Sandra Erickson Real Estate Inc. Taitem Engineering and Steven Winter Associates (Technical Assistance Providers) Matthew Trotta, Kalmen Kellici and Juan Ramirez from Lemle & Wolff William Chica from Applied HVAC Engineering KOW Building Consultants Ari Sokolov from KOW Building Consultants RL Mechanical Services Inc. All Purpose Electrical Inc.