Founded in 1999, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) is one of the world's liveliest centers for making and enjoying today's most ambitious art. With no permanent collection, MASS MoCA hosts long-term installations, organizes short-term exhibitions, and presents live performances year-round. MASS MoCA welcomes 220,000 visitors annually and, with 250,000 sq. ft. of exhibition space, is the largest contemporary art museum in North America. Through innovative collaborations, MASS MoCA helps artists and their supporters create and show important new work, bringing to our visitors bold visual and performing art in all stages of production, while also creating a stimulating center of creativity and commerce that brings life and economic vibrancy to its hometown.

MASS MoCA is one of the largest and most significant adaptive reuse projects in the state and is taking steps to reduce their carbon footprint, increase on-site renewable energy production, and ultimately become a carbon net zero—if not net negative—campus. Key to this effort is establishing a clear, concise and actionable understanding of how the campus’s buildings use and lose energy in order to prioritize and implement the most impactful improvements. Implementation funding will support the engagement of a professional engineering services to create and analyze a Building Energy Model (BEM) of MASS MoCA’s existing campus. This work follows from a recently completed Facilities Condition Assessment that identified the near-term and long-term needs of the existing buildings, infrastructure, and site. The assessment also recommended a set of “follow-on studies,” including the creation of the BEM.

In 2022, FCI funding supported a Technical Assistance grant which identified and documented the potential electrical energy savings and environmental emissions reductions related to replacement of the 300-ton water-cooled chiller located in MASS MoCA's Building #5. Building #5 is an open exhibition space whose length approaches that of an American football field and features newly commissioned, large-scale solo installations.