A model apartment at the Brooklyn Navy Yard is giving public housing stakeholders a working view of electrification and energy-efficiency technologies planned for New York City Housing Authority properties. The showcase is intended to help residents, design-build teams and property managers evaluate equipment that can be incorporated into renovation and modernization work.
The apartment combines several technologies intended for use in existing multifamily housing. Equipment on display includes packaged window heat pumps from Midea and Gradient, high-efficiency triple-pane casement windows, a 120-volt induction stove developed through a NYCHA-led procurement initiative, and far-infrared radiant heating panels.
The heat pumps are being incorporated into modernization projects at properties including Woodside Houses, Morrisania Air Rights, Claremont Consolidated and Beach 41st Street Houses. Bay View Houses and Campos Plaza II are also included in projects undergoing comprehensive renovations through the Permanent Affordability Commitment Together program. Radiant heating panels are already operating at Tilden Houses.
The model apartment supports NYCHA's 2026 Sustainability Agenda, which includes a five-year target of transitioning 20,000 apartments to heat pump-based heating and cooling and installing induction stoves in 10,000 apartments. The agenda also addresses energy efficiency, solar power, electric vehicle charging and climate resilience.
The technologies were developed or advanced through the Clean Heat for All Challenge and Induction Stove Challenge, partnerships involving NYCHA, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority and the New York Power Authority. The initiatives are designed to develop electrification products suited to existing multifamily buildings.
For public housing owners, design teams and contractors, the model apartment provides a physical setting to examine technologies before they are incorporated into larger modernization programs. The approach also illustrates the construction and procurement considerations involved in upgrading occupied, existing multifamily buildings with new heating, cooling and cooking systems
Source: NYC Govt.
