the distillery redevelopment - Boston Redevelopment Authority

The Distillery Redevelopment | East Second Street | South Boston
renewable fuel, and energy efficient shell and floor slabs. Other techniques,
passive solar heat gain, heliostats, daylighting, natural venting and heat recovery
venting are included in our design, but play a lesser role in the energy
performance. Integration of electrical cogeneration, plug-in hybrid vehicles and
other innovative transportation initiatives also contribute to benchmark setting
reductions in the total energy and environmental impact of the site.
The conceptualization of the energy profile of the project was facilitated by a
grant from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative. The report, The
Feasibility Study of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Options for a 79unit
Condominium Development in South Boston (May 2005), is available from
the MTC or from the developer. This study defined the building’s energy
efficient building morphology, and did a broad survey of the energy efficiency
technologies which the project will implement. A second grant from MTC for
$40,000, A Feasibility study for Vegetable Oil CHP, was awarded in October,
2006, and is focused more specifically on establishing the feasibility of using
virgin vegetable oil as an energy source for a combined heat and power system.
Work under this grant commenced on Dec. 13 th , and should be completed May 1,
2007.
1.4 Construction
In addition to complying with the pertinent regulations, it is an objective of the
proponent to incorporate into the construction process healthful and
environmentally responsible principles insofar as this is practicable. In order to
maintain as much normal use of the property as possible, the construction will be
sequenced so that the vacant north sector of the lot will be developed first – the
live-work studios facing East First Street – to be followed by the development of
the residential units on Dorchester Street.
1.0 Executive Summary | Introduction 1-12