Monday LEEDoff
Monday LEEDoff: A Peek at Brooklyn’s First Living Wall in Williamsburg
Consulting team Sphere Trending recently posted some photos on its blog of the Oulu Bar & Eco-Lounge in Williamsburg, home of Brooklyn’s first living wall. The wall covers the front façade of the 2500-square-foot building, which is aiming for LEED Gold certification and was designed by architect Evangeline Dennie. Dennie has some amazing installation photos of the vegetal wall in her online portfolio. Having dealt with these kinds of wall installations a little myself, I can tell you they’re not easy to mount or maintain, so my hat goes off to Dennie for making this one look so good. Some of Oulu’s other green features include biodegradable ceramic tile on the walls, water-based grout sealer in the bathrooms, natural Mica panels promoting light exchange, sheetrock exterior walls made of recycled material and post-consumer recycled paper, and a garage door that provides natural ventilation.
Popularity: 10% [?]
24Mar2008 | Meredith Taylor | 1 comment | Continued
Monday LEEDoff: Milliken Floor Covering Showroom Opens, Seeks -CI at 875 Avenue of the Americas
Spartanburg, South Carolina-based Milliken & Company is one of the largest textile and chemical manufacturers in the world. Recently, it opened the Milliken Floor Covering Showroom at 875 Avenue of the Americas (6th Avenue at 31st Street) in the Greeley Square Building. The space was designed by architects Mancini Duffy, and consultant Catalyst Partners will help Milliken in its pursuit of an unspecified level of LEED for Commercial Interiors (“LEED-CI”) certification. The showroom features sustainable interiors by interior design firm Studio Q, as well as separate “zones” for each brand of Milliken floor covering: Milliken Contract, Milliken Residential, and Milliken Hospitality. Specific green design features include ceramic metal halide lamps, daylight sensors, low-VOC paints and sealants, and recycled medium-density fiberboard.
Popularity: 10% [?]
17Mar2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Monday LEEDoff: Poly Prep Lower School Expansion at 50 Prospect Park West (Tour on 3/11)
Last fall, the Poly Prep Lower School at 50 Prospect Park West in Brooklyn completed an 18,000-square-foot expansion project, designed by Sam White of Platt Byard Dovell White Architects. The $2 million effort expanded the school’s original 21,800-square-foot space in the adjacent Hulbert Mansion- which was reconfigured as part of the expansion- and is aiming for the first LEED certification awarded to any school in New York City. Contractor RCDolner built the addition in a scant nine months; it was the firm’s first LEED project and involved a number of significant design challenges.
Popularity: 8% [?]
10Mar2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Monday LEEDoff: 200 Delaware Avenue in Buffalo Harvests 7200 Tons of Demolition Debris
A project in downtown Buffalo, New York is taking LEED’s Materials & Resources credit category quite seriously and expects to collect close to 7,200 tons of demolition material during the $68 million rehabilitation of what was once the Thaddeus J. Dulski Federal Office Building into the mixed-use 200 Delaware Avenue. Designed by architects Pfohl, Roberts and Biggie, the project team is slowly razing the existing 15-story building that dates from the 1970s and sorting each component of the structure, from its pipes and wires to light fixtures. According to co-developers Uniland Development Co. and Acquest Development, the effort should conserve 6,434 tons of concrete exterior panels, 570 tons of interior concrete and brick, 200 tons of steel and metal, and 10 tons of aluminum.
Popularity: 12% [?]
18Feb2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued
Monday LEEDoff: First LEED-Certified Museum in New York- Adirondack Park’s Wild Center
Located deep Upstate in Adirondack Park, the Wild Center/Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks is the first museum in New York State to receive a LEED rating, earning Silver from USGBC last week. The $30 million facility opened back in July of 2006 and primarily presents exhibitions about the Adirondacks’ human history. The Wild Center is also the first LEED-certified building in Adirondack Park of any kind, which at 6 million acres is larger than the entire Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Popularity: 10% [?]
11Feb2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Monday LEEDoff: Green Retail, Rentals Set for 72nd and Broadway
It appears that the Harsen House won’t be the only LEED-certified project that will rise along West 72nd Street. According to a report that appeared in Friday’s Real Deal, 200 West 72nd Street will seek an unspecified level of LEED certification for 196 luxury rental units and 48,000 square feet of retail space which […]
Popularity: 25% [?]
14Jan2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Monday LEEDoff: SUNY-Binghamton’s Cascade & Windham Dormitories, Vestal, NY
Last week, the Cascade and Windham residential buildings at SUNY-Binghamton’s Mountainview College (top and bottom in the image, respectively) each officially received a LEED Certified rating from USGBC. The two four-story, 70,000-square-foot dorms cost $23 million to build and are the 19th and 20th in the USGBC’s Upstate New York Chapter area to earn LEED […]
Popularity: 17% [?]
10Dec2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Monday LEEDoff: 20 Times Square at Port Authority Bus Terminal- Gold Core and Shell
In a major turnaround from its seedy Fun City days, Eighth Avenue has made a major case that it’s Manhattan’s greenest thoroughfare. Though the strip has retained much of the gritty flavor that makes it a favorite among tourists and unwitting theatergoers, new green towers from the New York Times and Hearst, plus the speculative […]
Popularity: 24% [?]
3Dec2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued
Monday LEEDoff: Merchandise Mart in Chicago, World’s Largest Commercial Building, Earns Silver Rating from USGBC
News about green efforts across the retail sector has been prolific of late- see our recent posts about discussion at ICSC and Greenbuild, as well as important news from PNC Bank. So, it’s not entirely surprising that the world’s largest commercial building, which is home to an extensive number of retailers, recently made some green […]
Popularity: 36% [?]
26Nov2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Monday LEEDoff*: Homestead Savings Bank, 283 Genesee St., Utica, New York
It’s not just Al Gore and other high-profile tenants that are actively looking for green office space. Upstate in Utica, New York, two local businessmen have secured a construction loan from NTB Bank for an $800,000 rehabilitation of the former Homestead Savings Bank at 283 Genesee Street, which will seek an unspecified level of LEED […]
Popularity: 16% [?]
19Nov2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued
Monday LEEDoff*: Dagher Engineering’s Gold Offices at 29 Broadway
Dagher Engineering’s headquarters at 29 Broadway in lower Manhattan earned a LEED for Commercial Interiors (”LEED-CI”) Gold rating from USGBC earlier this year. Dagher designed the space in collaboration with Gran Associates, implementing a variety of now standard LEED green features, including recycled and renewable materials, low-VOC paints, automatic light fixtures, and extensive daylighting. This […]
Popularity: 11% [?]
12Nov2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Monday LEEDoff*: Gensler’s Silver Office at 1230 Avenue of the Americas
As we mentioned previously, Cook + Fox isn’t the only architectural firm that’s sought (and received) certification for New York City office space under the LEED for Commercial Interiors (“LEED-CI”) rating system. Back in September, USGBC awarded Gensler with New York’s third LEED-CI rating, dishing out Silver to the firm for its 66,000 square foot […]
Popularity: 12% [?]
5Nov2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Monday LEEDoff*: Contessa Premium Foods Opens First Certified Frozen Food Manufacturing Plant
Contessa Premium Foods will officially open the doors of its $35 million Green Cuisine™ Plant in Los Angeles sometime this fall. According to Contessa, the four million square foot plant is the world’s first and largest environment-friendly frozen food manufacturing facility, as well as the first such project to earn a LEED rating from USGBC. […]
Popularity: 11% [?]
29Oct2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued-
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