The Opportunity
The Omaha Home for Boys is a nonprofit organization that has helped youth, young adults and families for nearly 100 years by providing housing, education and support. They also provide office and event space to other organizations in the community. These services are largely done on a main campus with a few satellite locations.
The main campus is a well maintained, beautiful campus that has served the Omaha Home for Boys since the 1940s. Despite the outward appearance, some of the campus infrastructure has reached the end of its useful life, in particular, the central chilled water system, one of the central boilers, many of the building HVAC units, and the building controls.
The greatest example of a system at the end of its useful life may be the central heating and cooling piping that runs throughout the campus. In recent years, this piping has had many, very costly leaks. These leaks not only impact the operating budget, but also caused inconvenience to the occupants and students.
The Technical Solution
The Omaha Home for Boys chose Navitas to be their ESCO partner and help them solve these problems and find energy and operational savings to help pay for the improvements. We went through a thorough process to understand the issues and goals of the Omaha Home for Boys and worked with them to develop the best solution to meet the needs of the students, residents, occupants, and other community stakeholders. The resulting solution, an energy conservation project, allowed the Omaha Home for Boys to develop a technical and financial plan to address their issues and help lay the groundwork for the next 100 years.
The Financial Solution
The Omaha Home for Boys will save over $4,800,000 in energy and maintenance savings over 15 years. In addition, the project eliminated more than $4,200,000 in deferred maintenance liabilities. Taken together, these savings more than paid for the entire $6,300,000 project.
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Omaha Home for Boys Partners with Navitas to Improve Facilities
