As Oy Arabianranta: Full renovation for the parking area - what does it cost?

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It was decided to carry out an extensive yard and drainage repair in As Oy Arabianranta in Helsinki, which also mapped the charging of electric cars. Originally, the implementation of the charging points was not precisely defined, but the housing company wanted to use the opportunity to modernize the company's parking area.

Project Background Information

Yard spots: 9 pcs
Facilities: 9 apartments, 2 commercial buildings, 2 retail space
Ownership: The housing company owns all the places
Design started: 2019
Project Schedule: 5-12/2021
Preliminary total cost estimate: 350 000–400 000 €

The housing association decided to proceed on the principle of "doing, doing properly", which also resulted in tendered to charge electric cars. The chargers became selected, which also allow remote -controlled car heating.

After the commercial negotiations, the housing company ordered the charging equipment and the Eparking service directly from Igl-Technologies Oy. The installation was responsible for the previously selected electrical contractor. At the same time, a new billing policy was switched to where users pay their own electricity consumption. The equipment lineup was our partner Harju Elekter Elektra series, which offers an 11 kW charging point and a Sukopistoi car heating.

In the past, electricity costs were included in the consideration, but in the future, the charging electricity will be billed at the price by the housing association and the money will be paid directly to the housing association's account without commission. The invoicing uses the housing association's own VAT rate, which was 0 %in this company. The cost of the billing service and the monthly price of the operation are billed directly from the housing association twice a year.

The implemented system also brought significant benefits to the administrative work of the housing association. The queuing and rental fees are automatically handled through the EParking system, which reduces the workload of the property manager and the accountant. Payments will be charged directly from the users and monitoring is done through the system without manual work.

- The drainage repair is always challenging for the housing association, as everything happens so -called under the surface, and the end result is mainly reflected in the fall. Marko Hakkarainen, Chairman of the Housing Board .

- Originally, the purpose was only new heating equipment, but at the same time we were thinking about the most modern and remotely controlled solutions. In addition, the asphalt in the yard was in poor condition, so it made sense to renew it in the same context, Hakkarainen sums up.

- The housing company wanted an intelligent and modern system without the separate gauges of each parking space that the property manager should read every year. In addition, we wanted flexibility so that the system supports both traditional car heating and charging electric cars now and in the future, Hakkarainen continues.

Costs and grants

The housing company led the project itself. The housing association received 50 % of the ARA grant for the project, or EUR 54,000 EUR 27,000.

Work carried out by the electrical contracting movement:

Installation of the new group center
Exports of new cables for charging devices
LAWING ATTENTION, CONTINUES AND MEASUREMENTS
Installation of a modem for remote management

Costs and Finance:

Electrical contract: € 13,000
Chargers: € 16,000
Earth excavation work for electrical contract: € 25,000
Yard work and drainage ditches: more than 90 % of the total cost
ARA grant: 50 % (€ 27,000)

The average additional cost of the charging points per place was around € 670 compared to installing heating poles alone. In total, the construction of the charging sites cost € 45,000 per place.

Observations of the project

The company's yard was in need of renovation, and the renovation was ahead anyway. As a result, total costs cannot be directly compared to a situation where the charging points would be built as a separate project.

For larger projects, it is important to look at the whole. In the past, there was no technology that would allow directly allocating electrical consumption, such as heating use, directly to users. However, this is possible with Etolp.

Charging points increase the value of the housing association. Each parking space is equipped with remote -controlled heating and 11 kW charging point. This makes the housing association attracted especially to electric cars, as the popularity of electric cars is constantly growing. This housing association is an excellent example of how the overall solution can be implemented as part of a major renovation, even if the users of the charging points are not in the early stages.

Load management was implemented at the EParking cloud service level 1, where the load was limited to 63A front fuse and three 25A groups. Load management takes into account charging, car heating electricity and other consumption devices.

The law did not require the capacity to be charged, but in this case it made sense, as the renovation was in any case planned. According to the law, a large -scale repair is defined as a "repair where the total cost of rebuilding the rebuilding of a building diaper or a building's technical system is more than 25 % of the value of the building, excluding the value of the building land" (Source: Finlex ). Although in this case the legal requirement did not yet apply to this project, it was sensible to increase download capacity, as the renovation was in any case timely.

Charging point capacity means piping or cabling in the parking space so that it can later be installed. The law applies to housing companies with at least four parking spaces. Charging points are not mandatory, but housing companies must ensure that all parking spaces can be installed later. This obligation applies to construction projects whose permit applications have been made on or after 11 March 2021 (Source: Finlex ).

Marko Hakkara, Chairman of the Board of Directors of As Oy Arabianranta, has been interviewed for the reference.