September 24, 2009
The Green Buildings Open House is a chance for the public to tour green buildings throughout New York City. Open House not only provides a view of the inner workings of several green buildings, but also gives visitors a chance to meet the owners, architects and designers who built and operate them.
Read on below for a list of the buildings taking part – for more detailed info about a specific building, follow the links to see full profiles in GreenHomeNYC’s
green buildings directory.
Event Details
Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
Various tour times between 10am and 4pm. Tours run roughly 1 hour.
Various locations in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Please RSVP! All tour are free unless otherwise noted.
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May 11, 2009
The 2009 Spring Green Buildings Open House tours took place on May 9, by bus and bike in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens. Even if you missed the tours, from here you can read a recap from each one and find out more about each building in our Green Buildings directory. Thanks to all the hosts and participants for helping make the tours informative and fun.
Participants in the Brooklyn Bike tour (pic: Sophie Cardona)
The Brooklyn Bicycle Tour visited
Eco Brooklyn Show House,
Poly Prep Lower School,
Green on Dean and
3rd and Bond. Read
a full run-down of the tour.
The other Brooklyn tour got around by bus and also took a foray into Queens for lunch –
read a full tour recap here. Buildings visited included
Atlantic Terrace,
439 Metropolitan Ave,
Queen’s Botanical Gardens Visitor Center and
Sterling Green.
The
Bronx tour recap describes visits to green buildings and green businesses too. The buildings were
El Jardin,
Green Decatur and the
Bronx Library Center, with suppliers Rebuilder’s Source and Globus Cork also hosting us.
See more photos from the tours on our
Flickr page. If you joined us for one of the tours and put your pics on Flickr, please tag them with “
GreenHomeNYC” and “
2009 Green Open House“!
A special thanks to the volunteers who made the tours possible: Jordan Bonomo, Dwan Daniels, Gita Nandan, Erik Nevala-Lee, Dan Rushton, Dolly Soto, Stephanie Sugawara and Mohini Tadikonda.
About the NYC Green Buildings Open House
As a leading resource for the exchange of information on green building in New York City, GreenHomeNYC continues pursuing its mission of facilitating the adoption of sustainable building methods and materials with three tours of Green buildings on May 9, 2009. In its seventh annual tour, GreenHomeNYC offers the public a unique glimpse at the inner workings and design details comprising exemplar Green buildings in Brooklyn and the Bronx. Guests on the tours will be hosted by the dedicated sustainability practitioners of these buildings, such as their expert architects, LEED APs, developers, engineers and owners. Learn about the challenges and accomplishments that were faced by the professionals involved with these commercial and residential buildings.
Tour visitors learn valuable ways to go green by observing examples of:
energy-saving solutions
photovoltaic and solar hot water technology and integration
water-saving fixtures and appliances
green roofs
solar heating (“passive solar”) techniques
allergy/asthma-sensitive building materials
various of green materials including paints, insulation, carpeting, renewably- harvested wood products, reclaimed and recycled materials
Since 2003, GreenHomeNYC has organized the NYC Green Buildings Open House as a part of
Northeast Sustainable Energy Associaion’s (NESEA) Green Buildings Open House and the
American Solar Energy Society’s (ASES) National Solar Tour.
December 13, 2008
GreenHomeNYC and NESEA invite you to our ANNUAL FALL GREEN BUILDINGS OPEN HOUSE!
The tours are an opportunity to visit a varied collection of buildings and learn about the energy efficient and sustainable building methods directly from building professionals such as the architect, engineer, developer or owner. You’ll experience firsthand the inner workings and design details, as well as the challenges and accomplishments that were faced by the professionals involved with these commercial and residential buildings. This year’s tour will feature: Passive homes, wind turbines, Intello Membranes, private green roofs, a natural pool, recycled material composition and more!
Date: Saturday, October 13th 2012
Time: Between 10AM and 3PM
Cost: $7 before October 8th; $10 after October 8th
Choose from a number of exciting tours!
October 5, 2008
The 2008 NYC Green Buildings Open House was held on Saturday, October 4. Guests visited more than 25 participating buildings in 3 bus tours, 2 bike tours, and 2 walking tours.
Bus & Bike Tours
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Walking Tours
Brought to you in collaboration with
Open House New York. The walking tours are full! Please join us on a bus or bike tour!
Battery Park City
East Village
Open Gardens
The following community gardens are also showing off their renewable energy systems to visitors:
6BC Botanical Garden 12 – 4 pm
6/15 Green Community Garden10 am – 4 pm
The 2008 event, our 6th annual tour, is sponsored by
NYSERDA. The Hunts Point CAT shuttles are provided by BOEDC’s Bronx Initiative for Energy and the Environment.
All bus tours are on Hunts Point Clean Air Transportation (CAT) shuttles. The hybrid electric vehicles combine the use of a conventional engine and a highly efficient electric motor to provide an extremely clean transportation option. The vehicles exhibit the following emission reductions: NOx of 99.6%, PM 100%, HC 47.1% and CO 67.2%
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September 25, 2008
This year we teamed up with
Open House New York to bring you two
free walking tours as a part of the annual
NYC Green Buildings Open House (Click to see the other tours).
While there is no charge for these tours, they do
require prior registration, and each tour is limited to 20 participants.
Be considerate of our host buildings and your fellow guests! Please arrive on time for the tour and plan to stay with the tour for the duration — don’t plan to catch up with the tour half-way through or just for one building! Thanks!
The walking tours are now full. Please
check out the remaining Green Buildings Open House tours!
Walking Tour 1: Battery Park City
Meeting spot and exact mid-morning time will be emailed to you once you’ve signed up for this tour.
Tour will visit:
The Solaire
The Visionaire
The Verdesian
Walking Tour 2: East Village
Meets at: 228 East 3rd St at 10 AM
Tour will visit:
227 East Third Street
195 East Third Street
179 Rivington Street
September 24, 2008
$25; includes lunch
Students/NGO/NESEA Members $15
Please bring your own bike, lock and helmet
Meets at BCUE at 10 am
Tour will visit:
BCUE
Galapagos
Ice House Apartments
Habana Outpost
View Map of Tour Route
$25; includes lunch
Students/NGO/NESEA Members $15
Please bring your own bike, lock and helmet
Meets at BCUE at 10 am
Tour will visit:
BCUE
Poly Prep Lower School
Brooklyn Children’s Museum
Habana Outpost
View Map of Tour Route
This tour is full!
$35; includes lunch and transportation
Student/NGO/NESEA members $20
Meets in Manhattan at 9:00 am at
Birdbath Green Bakery
Tour will visit:
Icehouse Apartments/
Monti Building
Greenbelt
439 Metropolitan Ave.
*Lunch break*
Green Depot
Habana Outpost
$35; includes lunch and transit
Students/NGO/NESEA members $20
Tour starts at the Bronx Library Center (see map below)
Tour will visit:
Bronx Library Center
Mount Hope Community Center
Nos Quedamos –
Parkview 1
Green Roof at County Courthouse
Lunch – BOEDC
WHEDCo – Urban Horizons II
Globus Cork
This tour is full!
$35; includes lunch and transportation
Students/NGO/NESEA Members $20
Tour will meet at: 148 Lafayette
Tour will visit:
148 Lafayette
New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services
Good Housekeeping House
Kalahari
View Map of Tour Route
