Anheuser-Busch broke ground last September on a 167,000-square-foot warehouse and distribution facility on Hunts Point in the South Bronx. The $40 million, project is seeking an unspecified level of LEED certification and should open up sometime in October. The warehouse will sit on the site of a former brownfield and is supported by a pile foundation system; soils at the site are extremely unstable and the piles are necessary to brace the heavy traffic from Anheuser-Busch’s local fleet of 70 freight trucks. Specific green features also include a graywater irrigation system and native landscaping across the warehouse’s 13.5 acres.
June 30th, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "biodiesel"
Trenton Aims to Grow Green Business Sector by Launching Public/Private Green Initiative
The Trenton Green Initiative, which was introduced last week by a partnership that includes the city of Trenton, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (“DEP”), PSEG, the Governor’s Office of Energy Savings, and Isles Inc., a Trenton-based builder of energy-efficient homes, will aim to lower energy costs in Trenton and create and expand the [...]
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