Three steel tube boilers had been in service since the 1960s at Dexter Manor, a 10- story low income housing complex located in downtown Providence, R.I. None of the existing boilers was up to the task of providing heat and hot water to nearly 300 apartments, managed by the Providence Housing Authority (PHA), in Providence, Rhode Island. “Failure to provide our tenants with heat and hot water is simply not an option,” said Gary Sprague, HV AC manager at PHA. “We have many elderly and handicapped people living in Dexter Manor who rely on our ability to provide heat and hot water.” The Providence Housing Authority wanted new, high efficiency, gas-fired boilers that could be tied into the existing baseboard heating system in use throughout the building. Besides providing hea

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