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Volume 24 Issue 14 July 27 - August 16, 2012
ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS Meridian Capital Group negotiates $25.2m in financing
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Combined Heat and Power system to preserve archival documents
Aegis Energy Services installs CHP system in the National Archives
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OLLEGE PARK, MD — It is common knowledge that heat and humidity are detrimental to the preservation of archival documents. No organization is more serious about safeguarding our nation’s historical record than The National Archives, located in Washington, DC and College Park, MD. Maintaining steady temperature and low humidity is a 24/7, 365 day a year mission for the Archives’ facility management, and is a costly proposition. But when you are protecting the original Constitution of the United States or the Declaration of Independence, you take no chances! Looking to cut their overall energy expenses by 30%, the National Archives of College Park, MD and Washington DC, embarked on a series of measures, including the installation of a Combined Heat and Power system engineered, manufactured and installed by Aegis Energy Services, Inc. Combined Heat and Power (CHP), also known as cogeneration, is the production of both electricity and heat from a SINGLE fuel source, in this case natural gas. It is a well established, proven, high-efficiency energy-saving technology. Aegis Energy Services, Inc. has been the leader in CHP for nearly 27 years with hundreds of systems located in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states. In 2009, The National Archives
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National Archives installed two Aegis 75kw CHP gis CHP systems were installed systems in their Washington, in the building’s main mechaniDC facility. In 2010, the College cal room, located close to the boilPark, Maryland site installed ers and chillers. The systems not three Aegis CHP systems. Heat only help protect the valuable recovered from the CHP systems archives, but also keep the five is used to re-heat ambient air to hundred people employed there 70 degrees F, after previously and the site’s several hundred being cooled to 55 degrees F in daily visitors comfortable. an effort to condense out any In addition to dehumidificamoisture. tion applications such as this At College Park, the three Ae- one, CHP technology is well
suited to healthcare facilities, recreational facilities, hotels, dormitories, and multi-unit residential buildings; wherever there is a need for the useable thermal energy (domestic hot water, space heating, absorption cooling, pool water heating,etc) produced from the cogeneration unit. Prior to recommending a CHP system, Aegis Energy Services always performs a no-cost thorough evaluation of the building’s heating systems and a proprietary energy analysis using historical energy usage. This work ensures that its CHP systems will be properly engineered to deliver promised and reliable savings consistently year after year. The National Archives is benefitting from the reliable, high efficiency CHP systems manufactured and installed by Aegis Energy Services, which helped cut their high energy costs, while simultaneously reducing carbon and other greenhouse-gas emissions, thus benefitting the DC metropolitan area, at large. ■
Cooper-Horowitz arranges $161.4 million in financing NEW YORK, NY — Cooper-Horowitz, Inc. recently arranged financing on the following properties: • Dunbar Apartment Portfolio: 211-227 and 231-247 West 149th Street; 210-226 and 230246 West 150th Street; 25802594 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd; 2802-2824 Frederick Douglas Blvd., New York, NY. The loan was for $20.9 million. Jayson Schwartz and Richard Horowitz represented the firm • The Bedford Portfolio: 158160 North 4th Street; 237-241 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY. Retail/Residential. The loan was for $51 million. Mark Niman, Richard Horowitz and Louis Mirando represented the firm. • 1133 Westchester Avenue, White Plains, NY. 625,000 s/f office building. The loan was for $79 million. Richard
Bedford Portfolio rendering Horowitz represented the firm. • 350 West Broadway, New York, NY. Retail/Condomin-
ium. The loan was for $10.5 million. David Horowitz and Richard Horowitz represented the firm. ■