Welcome
to the member profile
for House of Friendship

Health care and social assistance

industry

200

employees

14

facilities

Pledging
Partner

GHG Reduction
Target

40%

Membership
Goals

1

Leading the community in terms of improving the organization’s environmental impact and creating a progressive workplace where people want to be

2

Implementing sustainability initiatives that help manage the bottom line

3

Improving operations so they are being as least wasteful as possible

Sustainability Projects

2015

Hot Water Generation Update: Replaced 3, 80-gallon tank water heaters with a high efficiency boiler. The cost of the boiler was $15,000 with an estimated payback period of 7 years. Two of the replaced 80 gallon tank water heaters were then used to replace 4, 40-gallon tank electric water heaters.

2014

Lighting upgrades: Upgraded from T-12 to T-8 at 3 story apartment buildings and at homeless shelters. This will create roughly $2,500 and $2,000 a year in estimated cost savings respectively.

2013

Apartment Building Re-Lamping Upgrade: Complete upgrade of all common space and site lighting. This project is estimated to have annual energy savings of 40,000KW per year.

Fleet Review: Following a review of the organization’s travel requirements it was decided that they should reduce the total number of vehicles in service and upgrade to a few sustainable efficient vehicles instead.

HVAC control Upgrade: Installation of improved heating controls for MAU (Makeup Air Unit). This project is estimated to have 4000/m3 per year reduction in NG consumption.

2012

Renewable Energy: Installed a 10 kW solar rooftop system.

Sweater Day: Held a Sweater Day to reduce office temperatures and stay cozy.

2011

Geothermal Heating for 75 Charles Street Building: Geothermal provides the heating for the forced-air system in the vertical wells under the parking lot.