Physical Needs Assessments and Energy Audit Services

The vendor is required to provide the energy audit will be conducted in accordance with 24 CFR part 965 and energy codes.
- Pursuant to 24 CFR 965.302, the housing authority of prince county is required not less than once every 5 years to conduct an energy audit. 
- The noted CFR states that each PHA:
• “Shall complete an energy audit for each PHA-owned project under management, not less than once every five years. 
• Standards for energy audits shall be equivalent to state standards for energy audits. 
• Energy audits shall analyze all of the energy conservation measures, and the payback period for these measures, that are pertinent to the type of buildings and equipment operated by the PHA.”
- The audits are to identify energy conservation measures (ECMS), to determine costs to implement each ECM, and to calculate the cost-savings that result from implementing the measures. 
- The audit should identify any compliance, health, or safety issues related to energy improvements. 
- Each development will require conduct of a non-investment-grade energy audit and a report. 
- Act has published a proposed energy audit rule in the federal register (public housing energy audits, dated 11/17/2011) that provides standards that the contractor shall use in the conduct of the energy audit. 
- The public housing modernization standards handbook, 7485.2 rev-1, dated February 4, 1985, and with the act energy conservation for housing−a workbook, January 1998.
- Interviews of selected property, maintenance, and modernization personnel and residents to determine problem areas and concerns.
- Advanced energy conservation measures (ECMs), which include advance, experimental, or difficult improvement items such as fuel conversion, conservation technologies (energy management systems), energy-generating technologies, and renewable energy systems (solar, geothermal), may be considered for supplemental feasibility study outside the scope of this contract.
- Report documentation or report preparation:
• A summary of energy conservation measures studied and those recommended for implementation, by development.
• A detailed description of each energy conservation measure, the cost to implement, the estimated annual savings that must result, and the average simple payback.
• All energy-savings opportunities ranked according to their payback, by project, starting with the quickest and ending with the longest payback
• Recommendations as to the order in which the recommended energy-savings opportunities should be implemented in order to provide the housing authority of prince county with a master plan of action.
• All backup engineering calculations, so that the energy audit report can be readily updated each year to reflect changes in the cost of energy or the cost to implement the energy-savings measures.