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In Good Company Vendor Marketing CASE STUDY: Electric Vehicle Charging Prairie Point is a 24-story condominium building at 1600 S. Prairie Avenue in Chicago’s South Loop. Prairie Pointe Owners Association and First Service Residential wished to offer an economical electric vehicle charging (EVC) option to condominium owners that also own parking space with the building’s parking deck. Electrical capacity within the parking deck was limited, and electric distribution is metered by the utility and paid for by the association. The board contracted with AMS Mechanical Systems to build infrastructure that: • Would bill individual users for the electric vehicle charging, rather than the association. • • Could be expanded without a significant investment by the individual parking space/ condo owner as an EVC space is desired. The Solutions The design team at AMS determined that electrical capacity was available in the building’s main electric room that is adjacent to the parking deck. The electrical distribution panel was unmetered and intended to have distributed electric utility meters provided at/ near the point of use. In collaboration with ComEd, the design team developed a distribution system with pointof-use electric utility metering at each parking space where vehicle charging is provided. These utility meters are assigned to each parking space/condo owner, and utility billing is direct to the owner. An electrical distribution system was installed and includes two strategically located panel boards with capacity to provide up to 40 vehicle charging locations. When an owner requests vehicle charging for their parking space, it is relatively simple and economical to extend power to the owners parking space and install the meter/receptacle. ...continued on next page ONE - 6 - VOICE
(Continued) To allow for a more economical vehicle charging solution, 20-amp, 240 volt receptacles were incorporated into the design. For the average electric vehicle, this will provide a full charge within 10 hours, which is perfect for overnight charging. Owners are also provided with information for charging cord sets that will allow proper connection between their outlet and the vehicle. Since each outlet is only intended to be used by an individual owner, no charging stations were required thus significantly reducing the installation cost to the parking space/ condo owner. The Result A cost-effective distribution system was successfully installed to the Association’s parameters. The system currently serves <strong>12</strong> parking space/condo owners, with economical expansion for an additional 28 parking spaces. TESTIMONIAL Fate Sivac, CAM, Property Manager “The purpose of this e-mail is to highly recommend AMS Mechanical for any significant Electrical, HVAC or Plumbing needs. Since 2018, AMS has worked with our association to find the most cost effective and least intrusive solutions to add infrastructure for EV charging stations to individual deeded parking spots. The project was finally approved, and work started in June of <strong>2021</strong>. Concrete coring was completed without an issue for the main electrical infrastructure, and the AMS crew was on schedule and very organized. Because the associations was extremely happy with the work done by AMS, AMS was given sole rights to install the individual runs to all of the deeded parking spots that had signed up for a station. We are absolutely delighted that we made the decision to hire AMS and look forward to any future projects with them.” ONE - 7 - VOICE
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