Data Shows the Way for New York’s Greenhouse Gas Reductions
'It’s not just benchmarking, but it’s also disclosure'
Related Companies’ hot water heaters have been built too big for a long time.
No one really knows (or knew until recently) how big hot water heaters should be. “There has been a dearth in general of real data,” Charlotte Matthews, Related’s vice president for sustainability, explained in a phone call. The real estate giant had been building its hot water heaters based on rules of thumb long used by engineers. But the company recently got motivated to get sizing to an exact science to optimize its cogeneration facilities for Hudson Yards, where waste heat from other systems will contribute to keeping water hot.
