LEED-CI Platinum

LEED-CI Platinum

Audubon Society Cops Highest LEED-CI Platinum Rating Ever at 225 Varick Street

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Jan

The National Audubon Society's new office space on the seventh floor of 225 Varick Street has earned the highest point total ever for a Platinum LEED for Commercial Interiors certification. USGBC formally conferred the award late last month, and the project also received honors as one of New York Construction magazine's Best of 2008 projects. We noted the project last February right after the Audubon Society moved into its new space; you may recall that during the 1990s it had renovated its former headquarters at 700 Broadway using similar sustainable design features, so green construction techniques were not foreign to the organization at all.

ML: Historic Installation for BBG-BBGM LEED-CI Silver Space at Empire State Building

Mon

Sep

by Stephen Del Percio

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We wrote earlier this summer about Brennan Beer Gorman Architects / Brennan Beer Gorman Monk Interiors’ (BBG-BBGM) new headquarters space on the 25th floor of the Empire State Building, which will seek the tower’s first LEED for Commercial Interiors rating. Recently, the 32,000-square-foot project’s general contractor Aragon Construction installed BBG-BBGM’s HVAC system on the building’s first setback on the southwest corner. The two 9500-pound chillers will run independently from the rest of the Empire State Building and were designed to save BBG-BBGM 15 percent on energy consumption over ASHRAE standards.

Law Firm Purchases Manhattan's "Original" Green Building for $70M

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Jul

by Stephen Del Percio

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It's important to keep in mind that sustainable, energy-efficient buildings do exist outside of the LEED rubric. Accordingly, 700 Broadway calls itself New York City's "original" green building; the 10-story, 100,000-square-foot tower dates from 1891 and is the former home of the National Audubon Society, which purchased the building in 1989 while it was abandoned during a much seedier era in the Village. The organization sold the building in 2006 to the Lincoln Property Company for $53 million and (as we wrote about recently) moved earlier this year to the seventh floor of 225 Varick Street. The Audubon Society has outfitted that space with a number of green design features in pursuit of a LEED for Commercial Interiors Platinum rating from USGBC.