Built on energy conservation

With paving underway, the construction of the new 475-car central parking structure at Cummings' Dunham Road business campus in Beverly nears completion. The structure will provide ample free parking for clients of the existing building at 50 Dunham Road and future clients of the planned 144,000-square-foot, mixed-use building at 48 Dunham Road.

Cummings energy conservation philosophy was considered throughout the garage's design.  The low-maintenance concrete structure was cast in Vermont by Daily Precast; the roof is covered with a 832-panel solar array and interior lighting is by occupancy sensing LEDs; and stone unearthed during excavation was used to sheath the lower section of the garage. 

Solar Powered Savings

The Cummings Center solar crew persevered through blustery snow squalls, and cold, wet conditions to install a new 1,738-panel, 530-KW solar array (more than an acre) atop Cummings Center's "Northwest Garage." The system is expected to produce 575,702 kWh annually, enough to power approximately 48 million iPods for a year and cut down on energy costs to power common area lighting! 

Sunlight Savings Time

"Here comes the sun" means "here comes the energy savings" at Cummings Center in Beverly. Clients are beaming about a new 800-panel solar array above the East Garage, which helps power common area systems.  The solar array is expected to produce enough energy annually to power nearly 40 typical suburban homes! This is Cummings' fifth major photovoltaic solar panel installation. 

Solar Facade

A new 30,000 watt photo voltaic solar panel array has been installed at 8 Cabot Road in Woburn and will generate approximately 40 percent of the energy used by common area systems. Cummings’ previous solar arrays (at TradeCenter 128) were installed entirely on the parking garage roof. At 8 Cabot, 20 of the 110 panels are installed on the building’s façade. They act as awnings over the south-facing windows, further saving cooling energy and are visible reminders of the building’s energy-saving features.

Here Comes the Sun!

Cummings Properties completed the first phase of a major 200 kW photovoltaic solar panel installation at TradeCenter 128 in Woburn. Following approval by local authorities, Cummings employees assembled and installed the 518 - 3' x 5' solar panels in a 36-hour period.

The solar panel array will produce more than 107,000 kilowatts of very green power per year. To view a real time graph of the power generated by the panels, click here.

Partially funded by a grant by the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust, the panel array will generate upwards of 10 percent of the common area lighting and HVAC systems at 300 TradeCenter. It is among the largest solar installations to date in Massachusetts.

The system consists of 518 Canadian Solar panels, a 95 kW Solectria Inverter, and Unirac support racks supplied by Munro Distributing of Fall River, Massachusetts.