On Nov. 10, Seattle Mayor Mike聽McGinn presented a $75,000 matching grant from Community Power Works to Harborview Medical Centers聽Executive Director Eileen Whalen. Funded by a $20 million federal stimulus grant and local matching funds, Community Power Works is a neighborhood鈥恇ased building retrofit program working to achieve deep energy savings and create green jobs.
Harborview will use the award to聽move forward with a number of energy improvement initiatives, which are included in聽our new聽10-year Major Institutional Master Plan.
Current projects include聽the replacement of two large HVAC supply fans that bring fresh air to a number of floors in the hospital with a聽modern, energy-efficient fan wall.聽In addition to achieving energy savings, this聽new聽fan configuration聽will meet the need for聽Harborview to have redundancy ventilation solutions as a Level聽I trauma hospital.
The mayor’s聽press conference was hosted by Harborview.聽Matching grant awards were also presented to Virginia Mason, Group Health and Swedish Medical Center.