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February 10, 2013
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Build It Green! NYC
Build It Green! NYC, is New York City’s only non-profit retail outlet for salvaged and surplus building materials. Our warehouse has everything from panel doors to high end refrigerators and shutters to movie props. Our mission is to keep these materials out of the landfill, while offering deep discounts on their resale. Founded in late 2004, our warehouse opened in February of 2005. We are sponsored by Community Environmental Center (CEC) www.cecenter.orgEmerald Green
Emerald Green is the newest example of the Glenwood Commitment to The Finest Quality of Life. As the original Developer/Owner, The Glenwood family has always believed in staying in charge of everything from Day One: From the location, the architect and the construction to the daily management of every one of their spectacular residences.Gen. Colin Powell Apartments
The building is comprised of 50 affordable studio, one, two and three bedroom coop units with a green roof, rooftop terrace and a community facility space in a precast concrete and masonry structure.This project was awarded through a NYC HPD Cornerstone RFP and developed under the NYC Housing Development Corporation’s Affordable Coop Program with financial assistance from the NYS Affordable Housing Corporation, SONYMA, the Bronx Borough President and NYSERDA. The building is enrolled in NYSERDA’s Multifamily Performance Energy Star program and the USGBC’s LEED for Homes program.
Fox Point
Fox Point provides 48 units of affordable housing for formerly homeless and low-income families and individuals. What distinguishes it from other supportive housing projects is that Fox Point is one of the first to seek a LEED Silver accreditation.Through the integration of green systems and materials into the building’s design and operation, Fox Point creates a healthy background for living and ensures its long-term affordability.
Galapagos Art Space DUMBO
In 2007, Williamsburg’s trailblazing performance venue Galapagos Art Space was presented with the opportunity to take over the old stables at 16 Main Street and serve as a magnet for the growing DUMBO arts district. The organization responded with a vision for an art and performance space that continued the raw aesthetic of the original venue, while providing event-goers with a unique experience. The space is composed in concrete, water, steel, and light, and has been recognized as one of New York’s best performance venues.The original stables were designed for the Robert Gair Company of Brooklyn by the noted New York industrial architect William
Higginson in 1906. The building was among the first reinforced concrete buildings in New York, and the new construction honors the original by extensive use of concrete, both as structure and for sensuality. The ground floor, formerly used as a garage to store the Gair company’s carts has been reimagined as a high-ceilinged performance space with a bar, and a seating
area that hovers above a reflecting pool. An art gallery and second performance space is to be constructed on the second floor, as well as a curator’s apartment and offices during a second phase of construction.
Galapagos Art Space
1. Recycled content in most building components2. Reclaimed lumber for the stage
3. Radiant floor heating
4.Highly efficient mechanical system
5. Low energy lighting system
6. Low VOC paints, coatings, and sealants
7. re-using anf re-purposing an existing building. Phase 2 will include a Green roof and native planted canopy.
Castle Gardens
Castle Gardens is a mixed-use, green, supportive and affordable residential building and service center, providing supportive and affordable housing and essential services at the same site, creating long-term housing solutions for homeless people with histories of incarceration and their families, as well as low-income individuals and families from West Harlem and the greater New York area.Center for the Urban Environment (BCUE)
1. Water savings of 30% from typical construction2. Met LEED low VOC standards for all materials and adhesives and paints
3. Zero formaldehyde present in all materials
4. Achieved 90% diversion of waste from landfill
5. Achieved 30% recycled content of materials
6. over 50% of wood from salvaged sources
7. energy efficient lighting scheme with occupant sensors
8. bicycle parking provided for more than 15% of occupants
9. educational outreach program setup so the space can act as a living museum to visitors about the process of creating sustainable heathly work places.
10. reuse of existing warehouse building and its structure