# Presentation: 061415

## New York Life Building20 West Ninth Street 

**Mike Thome**
-  Hoss & Brown

## New York Life Building

**Built in 1888**
**Italian Renaissance structure with steel framing**
**10 Story, 200,000 sq. ft. **
**Class A Office Space **
**500 employees**
**H-shaped footprint**
**Now Utilicorp United’s headquarters**

## New York Life BuildingProject Scenario

**Building idle for 5 years**
**Severe water damage led to****:**
**Plaster falling**
**Wood floors buckling**
**Roof leaking**
**Structure inhabited by nothing more than pigeons**

## New York Life BuildingProject Challenges

**Aim for a 7-year payback period**
**Operate the building at 1/3 less cost than any Class A building in Kansas City**
**Preserve the atrium’s barrel-vaulted skylight and historical character**
**Lessen energy demands at peak times**
**Accomodate tighter conditions in the air-distribution system**

## New York Life BuildingOther Project Challenges

**Upgrade to meet current building codes**
**emergency exits**
**seismic stability**
**thermal exposure**
**Add state-of-the-art mechanical and electrical systems to 100 year old building**

## New York Life Building System Solutions

**Electric centrifugal chillers with ice-storage capabilities**
**Variable air volume (VAV) air distribution system**
**New operable energy-efficient windows **
**Added insulation to building envelope**
**New heating and hot water systems**
**10-story infill of H footprint**
**Energy-efficient lighting and daylighting**

## New York Life BuildingNew Cooling Plant

**Electric centrifugal chillers**
**Two 300 ton Trane machines, R-123**
**daytime chiller full-load 0.55 kW/ton efficiency, 0.538 kW/ton efficiency at 75% load**
**ice storage chiller 0.762 kW/ton efficiency **
**Ice-storage system**
**“****Giant Slurpie Machine” or “Popsicle Machine”**
**fourteen 15-foot tall, 1600 gallon insulated tanks**
**glycol solution cooled to 22 °F at night**
**ice cools interior air during the day**

## New York Life BuildingHeating and Hot Water

**High-efficiency gas-fired boilers**
**hot water heat to VAV boxes**
**Point-of-use hot water heaters**
**eliminated need for insulated piping and boiler maintenance**
**sensor-activated fixtures with preset wash times**

## New York Life BuildingLighting Improvements

**Overhead lighting **
**T8 Fluorescent tubes**
**solid-state, low-energy, dimmable ballasts **
**Computer-controlled system**
**adjust overhead light levels according to the amount of daylight**
**occupancy sensors turn off lights when no one is present**
**Daylighting**** **
**ceilings slope down from windows to reflect light into interior**
**interior light shelves**
**light reflective colors**

## New York Life Building Other Building Load Reductions

**New energy-efficient windows installed**
**double-pane, low-e, insulated frames**
**custom-made operable windows to meet historical restoration requirements**
**Exterior masonry walls**
**R-11 fiberglass insulation added**
**New roof with R-20 insulation**

## New York Life BuildingTen-Story Infill

**Filled in part of the H-shaped footprint with full height addition**
**9,000 square feet of office space added**
**new light well protects the original skylight**
**Reduced building surface area by 15%**
**Steel frame increases structural support**
**Skylight designed to evacuate smoke in an emergency**

## New York Life BuildingIntegrated Economics

**All building energy systems were designed to reduce peak electrical demands**
**New chillers & ice storage **
**purchase & installation cost of $810,000**
**payback period of 10.2 years**
**Lighting system payback period of 3-4 years**
**All other building systems have 5-7 year paybacks**
**Lower payback measures **
**help to finance expensive chiller/ice storage work**
**help reduce overall project payback period**

## New York Life BuildingFinancing Structure

**$35 million project, including $7 million for adjacent parking structure**
**Missouri Tax Incentive Program - used to finance 75% of the renovation**
**Credit of 100% of property tax increases and up to 50% of sales and profits tax increases**

## New York Life BuildingProject Timeline

**Building purchased in November 1992**
**Extensive redesign of interior and exterior to Class-A office space**
**Complete mechanical/electrical overhaul**
**Construction began in October 1995**
**Project complete in beginning of 1997**

## New York Life BuildingProject Results

**Highly efficient, state-of-the-art HVAC systems**
**Utilicorp United is saving $1.4 million a year on utility bills from its previous headquarters**
**utility cost savings of $0.50-0.80/square foot**
**operating costs reduced from $23 to $15/square foot**
**overall project payback of ~7 years**
**Created an extremely comfortable, modern office building, while retaining the character of the original historic building**