While (some of us anxiously) wait and see if the Mets’ CitiField will join the new ballpark in Washington for the Nationals in seeking LEED certification, a variety of other ambitious green projects are either underway or in the works over in Queens.
The Queens Botanical Garden
The first, the Queens Botantical Garden’s Sustainable Landscapes and [...]
Green Professionals
From the Botanical Garden to Silvercup Studios: Going Green in the Borough of Queens
Green Sports Consulting Firm Hopes to Turn Reds, Browns, and Blues to “Greens”
Many green consulting firms focus primarily on assisting clients in negotiating the paperwork-intensive LEED certification process. (You can access several, including Paladino, through the links to the right). So, when I saw this article about a new Minneapolis-based green consultant, I thought its business plan was extremely original. A former Minnesota county commissioner, Mark Andrew [...]
December 20th, 2006 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued
Sustainable Challenges: The Urban Townhouse
Next Thursday, December 14th, NYSERDA, in connection with a variety of other sponsors including Benjamin Moore, Forbo, and Natural Cork, will host a High Performance Green Building Salon at the Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, in Manhattan. The lecture, Sustainable Challenges: The Urban Townhouse, will focus on the opportunities, and difficulties, presented by smaller [...]
December 8th, 2006 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
The Green Exchange
A Chicago-based development firm is waiting to receive zoning approvals from the city in order to proceed with a 250,000 square foot mixed-use project at 2545 West Diversey Avenue on Chicago’s North Side. Once the approval is handed down, Baum Development LLC plans to invest $30 million into the former Frederick Cooper Lamp Company building [...]
December 1st, 2006 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued
More on GreenOrder, LEED-CI, Green Roofs
Couple of quick links below to follow up on some recent posts.
GreenOrder, Inc. (link to its website in the sidebar) has been named to Inc. Magazine’s “Green 50.” I posted about GreenOrder not that long ago after reading an interview that its CEO, Andrew Shapiro, had given to the New York Times. The way Shapiro [...]
NYC-Based Green Consulting Firm Emphasizes Financial Benefits of Green Building
An article from Sunday’s Times helps make the business case for green buildings.
Andrew Shapiro is a former lawyer who got the idea for his consulting business, GreenOrder Inc., from his brother’s environment-friendly nightclub in Tribeca. After the club closed down, the two brothers opened up their firm, which now advises major developers on projects across [...]
Links, Including Hybrid Lighting
An excellent overview in Architectural Record about various tax-incentive programs for green/LEED-certified buildings.
This new book, Developing Green: Strategies for Success, written by USGBC LEED faculty member Jerry Yudelson, sounds like a terrific resource for commercial developers interested in learning more about green building practices (or anyone else, for that matter).
Yudelson delineates the practice of building [...]