Suburban Renovation & Redevelopment
Sources Sought / Call for Papers
The Village of Nagog Woods is a 50 year old condominium complex - the oldest in Massachusetts - consisting of 277 units organized into 38 buildings, a clubhouse, pool, tennis center, and maintenance facility. We maintain an irrigation system and operate a sewage treatment plant that we share with our neighbors. We are supplied with town water. Gas, electric, telephone, and cable service are provided by private utilities. We have our own zip code. We border a reservoir, town forest, art museum, and regional park.
Nagog Woods is just over 50 years old, and, like many subdivisions built in the last century, our buildings, grounds, utility infrastructure, and other facilities are showing their age - coming up on the need for major systems overhauls & updates. Compounding matters is a new Town Ordinance requiring that large projects be fossil fuel free - as one of 10 Massachusetts Towns participating in a pilot project requiring new projects, and major renovations to be fossil-fuel free. We are past the point where we can perform incremental maintenance or avoid rebuilding to code - and as we renovate, we are required to electrify our systems.
We envision initiating a Master Planning & Infrastructure Acquisition Program, for our subdivision - Developing, Financing, and Executing a comprehensive, multi-year program of coordinated systems update, that takes advantage of latest technologies & practices, economies of scale, and seeks to minimize costs & disruption to daily life.
We seek Concepts & Vendors for Comprehensive Modernization of our Buildings, Grounds, Utility Infrastructure, and Common Facilities, inclusive of:
Complete Update of Building Envelopes, Pipes, Wires, HVAC, and Hot Water Systems. We are particularly interested in installation models that provide for replacing pipes and wires without the need to open interior walls.
Consolidation of HVAC & Hot Water Heaters into (multi-)Building Systems, with a particular interest in village-scale, ground sourced geothermal technology.
Installation of local electric generating facilities, in particular solar awnings over our parking structure, and/or a windmill at our sewage treatment plant.
Installation of new conduit, piping, and wiring throughout the complex - installed in conjunction with update to our drainage facilities and landscaping. We are particularly interested in techniques for trenching and installation of "roll-out" conduit systems.
We seek presentations, and demonstrations by Architectural Firms, Construction Engineering Firms, Construction Contractors, and Technology Vendors - with a particular interest in case studies of comprehensive, subdivision-level redevelopment projects. We are particularly interested in programmatic, contractual, and financing models that provide for minimal disruption of daily life, long-term financing, defraying costs through reductions in fuel, operations, maintenance, and insurance expenses, and long-term positive return-on-investment.
We invite Site Visits, offer the opportunity to exhibit in an online Exposition & Catalog, distribution of presentations & materials through ThisOldNeighborhood.Net, and participation in a Trade Show & Conference to be held later this year, in conjunction with ThisOld Neighborhood.Net and Civic.Net.
ThisOldNeighborhood.Net is a media & educational program focused on developing a market & ecosystem for Suburban Redevelopment. Civic.Net is an Internet of community networks, and neighborhood forums - envisioned as a platform for "Town Meeting" style community planning & development - currently under development based on earlier work performed by The Center for Civic Networking (https://web.archive.org/web/20030213094449/http://civic.net/).
Please contact Miles Fidelman at 617-538-9249, mfidelman@protocoltechnologiesgroup.com, for further details, scheduling site visits & opportunities to present your capabilities, submission of TED-like talks & conference papers, exhibiting with us (both online & physically), and participating in a joint marketing & market making program for Suburban Redevelopment.