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Facilities director seeks citywide facilities study, BMS expansion and electrification funding
Summary
Facilities and sustainability director Scott Butch briefed the board on requests for a citywide lifecycle assessment, expansion of a Siemens Desigo Building X management system, heating-system replacements and a push to electrify buildings using Eversource incentives; also requested funds for sprinkler work at Latham-Wider Community Center and other maintenance needs.
Scott Butch, director of facilities and sustainability (Speaker 6), presented a suite of capital requests aimed at modernizing Stamford's municipal buildings, improving energy management and addressing deferred maintenance.
Butch said the first priority is a citywide facilities lifecycle planning and assessment to build a 10-year capital plan based on a building-by-building life-cycle cost approach. On building management systems, he said the city has been working with Siemens on a platform he identified as "the Siemens Desigo Building x system," and requested continued funds to expand that system citywide to add building-management points, lighting controls and water-detection sensors. "It's called the Siemens Desigo Building x system, and the new funding would be able to...continue to expand to our outer buildings, citywide," Butch said, noting energy-savings and reduced risk from water detection.
Butch also sought ongoing funding for heating-system replacement and a targeted electrification effort to replace end-of-life gas units with electric heat pumps; he cited preliminary cost estimates of roughly $500,000'$600,000 for early phases and noted potential Eversource incentives that could add about a 15% rebate to eligible projects. "If we add in additional incentive measures...we can add an additional 15% incentives to the overall, expenditure," he said.
Additional requests included an $850,000 estimated sprinkler installation at the Latham-Wider Community Center (a 72,000 sq ft building), $500,000 for plumbing and sewer proactive replacements, $1.5 million in roof replacements and continued funding for flooring, security access upgrades and environmental hazard abatement in pre-1983 buildings. Butch estimated operating savings from garage-door replacements and other preventive investments and emphasized the need to plan proactively to avoid repeated emergency expenditures.
Board members asked for clearer quantification of cost savings and unit ages for end-of-life systems; Butch agreed to add ages, estimated savings and connections to the comprehensive plan in the project justifications. No formal action was taken.
