The speedway’s original HVAC equipment, installed nearly 30 years ago, was outdated, and with one HVAC unit per suite, the cost to run and maintain the equipment was significant.
Ductless mini-splits have become increasingly prominent in spaces like apartments or condos that didn’t once have air conditioning, but the systems still bring on challenges for contractors.
Hotel Marcel, a 110,000-square-foot adaptive reuse of New Haven, Connecticut’s historic Pirelli Building, has raised the bar for sustainable hospitality as the first Passive-house certified, zero-emission hotel in the U.S. and one of only a dozen that are LEED Platinum-certified.
The home now has a 3.9 kW solar array that offsets nearly 100% of the System M and grid power supplied from the clean-sourced ConEd program meaning that the house has zero emission heating, cooling, and hot water.