195 CHURCH office building located in New Haven, Connecticut, recently underwent a $6 million retrofit including high-performance window and LED upgrades. With 245,000 square feet, 18 floors and concrete construction, 195 CHURCH reflects the low-efficiency materials and style of its 1974 construction. The original windows were manufactured before low-e glass and improved thermal breaks in the aluminum framing were available. After the retrofit, the Class A property’s tenants are experiencing increased comfort and the building owners are seeing significant annual energy savings. In fact, estimates show a yearly electrical energy savings of $0.95 per square foot of floor space, reducing the owner’s roughly $800,000 annual electricity bill by $203,000.
