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Dearborn HVAC Infrastructure and Energy Initiative

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Project Overview

The City of Dearborn, Michigan, launched an initiative for designing and installing comprehensive HVAC renovations in 2016. Actual construction began in 2018 following an intense planning and design period.

The objective was to transform the City’s 80-acre building complex on Michigan Avenue across from the Ford World Headquarters into a world-class, energy- efficient, and sustainable municipal building campus. The City is investing significant amounts of capital and resources into upgrading HVAC and energy-consuming systems to the most current technology, as well as the thermal and electric infrastructure throughout the one- half million square-foot campus of six buildings, which include:

  1. Dearborn Administrative Office Building (DAC)

  2. Ford Community and Performing Arts Center

  3. Henry Ford Centennial Library

  4. Police Building and Jail

  5. Courts Building

  6. Central Cooling and Electrical Distribution Plant (the Powerhouse)

There are numerous elements of the City of Dearborn Mechanical and Electrical Renovation Initiative, that when taken together, make this project quite unique and innovative. When completed, the result of the City of Dearborn’s initiative will bring it to the forefront of municipal energy management and efficiency. The Powerhouse and much of the energy infrastructure was built in the 1960s, and the energy costs had risen to over $1 million per year. This was due in part to the aging HVAC systems, along with the inefficient heating, cooling, and control technologies that lagged far behind that which was considered state-of-the-art in 2016 when the project was initiated. The resulting energy cost savings are estimated to be nearly 50% of the base year energy cost.

 

The breadth of this initiative is illustrated in the project scope that was developed with the leadership of Mayor John O’Reilly, Jr., and the City Council, together with the partnership and cooperation of the DPW, Powerhouse, Purchasing, Facilities, and other departmental staff. In addition to the design team, special recognition must be given to the Eric Witte, Deputy Director of the DPW, and Anthony Belzak, Superintendent of the Powerhouse and Facilities for their intimate roles as the City’s primary representatives in support of the project implementation. Though there were many contractors involved in the construction of this project over three years, over 90% of the mechanical construction was provided by CSM Mechanical, LLC. CSM was responsible for replacement, or new installation of almost 500 pieces of major mechanical equipment, electrical equipment, as well as state-of-the-art temperature and environmental controls. 


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