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AOT facilities bureau discusses building portfolio, EV chargers and renewable projects
Summary
Brad McElroy, facilities manager for the Agency of Transportation, told the committee the bureau manages 424 state-owned buildings, 59 maintenance complexes and is expanding electric vehicle charging and renewable-energy pilots at maintenance garages and airports.
Brad McElroy, facilities manager for the Agency of Transportation, gave the House Transportation Committee an overview of the facilities bureau’s responsibilities and projects across the state.
McElroy said the bureau manages about 424 state‑owned buildings and 59 highway maintenance complexes statewide, plus 10 state airports and rail stations. The bureau fields an average of about 1,000 contractor call‑outs per year for building repairs and manages portfolio retainer contracts for electrical, overhead door and other trades.
On fleet electrification, McElroy said AOT has installed 15 electric vehicle chargers across its 59 maintenance complexes and 12 garages with solar arrays. He said a new Level 2 charger was installed at the Whitefield garage to support electric motor equipment being assigned to that site. The bureau is assessing additional sites as state‑fleet equipment and EV adoption grow.
McElroy described energy projects including 21 outdoor wood boilers (he called them newer, higher‑efficiency units) used for garage heating and noted two recently completed salt sheds (40 by 84 feet) in New Haven and North Hero. He said two new district garages under construction — in Swanton and Cambridge — are being built to be fossil‑fuel free except for diesel generators.
On records and internal services, McElroy said his team now manages state ID badges, cellular devices, iPads used for field data collection and records management functions, including public records requests and the state print shop.
McElroy said the bureau is evaluating battery backup options for facilities but cited generator/diesel redundancy as the current approach because long outages could exhaust battery reserves. He invited committee members to ask questions and to request more detailed site lists and schedules.
