A pair of Farmington and West Hartford office buildings housing operations for the University of Connecticut Health Center are getting $420,000 in lighting upgrades as part of the federal stimulus plan.
The buildings are at 16 Munson Road in Farmington — a five-floor, 122,583-square-foot structure built in 1971 — and 65 Kane Street in West Hartford, a three-story, 39,154-square-foot building dating to 1986.
The Munson Road building houses the health center’s offices for human resources, information technology, finance and grants, and facility and planning.
The Kane Street building, once headquarters to former Colonial Realty Co., is home to medical offices for primary care, pediatrics, psychiatry, genetics and obstetrics-gynecology.
The scope of work consists of removing older, inefficient lighting (incandescent, fluorescent, metal halide or high pressure sodium lamps) and magnetic or electronic ballasts. They are being replaced with higher efficiency lighting, new wiring and fixtures and occupancy sensors and photocells. Completion is set for June.
“These are the first of 16 projects to be funded with a total of $5 million in energy efficiency money from the stimulus,” said Gov. M. Jodi Rell. “The projects will provide long-term energy savings for the state, so we are eager to move them from design and into the construction phase quickly while providing more opportunities for workers in these industries.”
