HomeMy WebLinkAboutTanacross Woody Biomass Comm. Space Heating Progress Report 2014 REF Grant 7050881Attachment 2 Progress Report Form
Grantee: Native Village of Tanacross dba Tanacross Village Council
Project Name: Tanacross Woody Biomass Community Facility Space Heating Project
Grant # 7050881
Period of Report: 09/25/2014 to 11/13/2014
Project Activities Completed:
All buried utilidor runs have been completed. The biomass heating station building
exterior and interior surfaces have been finished and electrical and interior mechanical
work is underway. A simplified heat exchanger system, pumps, and related plumbing
have been installed by Denali Mechanical, Inc. inorder to allow for heat from the back-
up oil -fired boiler within the biomass heating station to transfer heat to the 14,000 s.f.
multi -use building this winter.
Biomass heating station's construction activities this report period included payroll
expenses are the following:
Labor and fringe: $ 967.68
Construction: $67,805.28
Total: $68,772.96
Existing or Potential Problems:
This project unfortunately experienced $89,000 in A&E expenses or a little over 20 percent of
the Project's REF grant funds. Also, the complexity of the mechanical system has caused the
Project's budget to be exceeded. Project cost overruns cannot be solely blamed on the Coffman
design but also on the fact that when the original REF proposal was developed, it was not
based on a project design but rather an estimate. Clearly, future REF projects should probably
have a 65% design and cost estimate produced so that the proposed budget submission to REF
has a higher degree of reliability. Also, financial reporting has been cumbersome because the
28 line item categories are too many and also do not reflect the project's actual scope of work.
Rather a 4 or 5 line item category budget would be much more useful.
TVC needs to identify additional funding for the Project and has already submitted a full funding
proposal to the U.S. DOE's Office of Energy's Deployment of Clean Energy and Energy
Efficiency on Indian Lands, Number DE-FOA-0001021 — Topic Area 2: Community -Scale
Clean Energy Deployment for funds to complete the project if approved. If not approved, TVC
will seek FY2016 Legislative CIP funding to the complete the project summer, 2015.
Activities Targeted for Next Reporting Period:
During the next report period, TVC expects to perform the following activities:
1) Continue internal mechanical and electrical work at the biomass heating station
sufficient to deliver oil-firedheatto the 14,000 s.f mulit-use building.
Prepared By: +wQ Date: 11/14/2014
Printed Name: Jeff Weltzin