Newsday and MLB.com reported yesterday that the Mets are planning to incorporate a variety of sustainable features into the new Citi Field, set to open in April 2009. The $800 million stadium is being built using 95 percent recycled steel, and will be lit for night games using energy-efficient field lighting. The bathrooms will feature low-flow plumbing elements like hands-free faucets and waterless urinals that the EPA estimates will save 4 million gallons of water a year. The Mets also plan to install a 15,000 square foot green roof on the administration building in order to cut down on heating and cooling costs and are working with the MTA to continue to encourage people to take public transportation to games. The club has also partnered with EPA’s Energy Star program and will implement a recycling program with its concessions vendor, ARAMARK.
March 14th, 2008 | Meredith Taylor | 0 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "Citi Field"
HOK Sport & Hunt/Bovis: N.Y. Mets’ Citi Field
I’ve had an extremely difficult time locating information about the sustainable design features out at Citi Field- the Mets’ new $600 million ballpark that’s rapidly rising in a former parking lot beyond the centerfield fence out at Shea- but in an article that was posted at green-links earlier this week, Lew Blaustein set forth the [...]
July 18th, 2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued