All Posts Tagged With: "LEED-EB"
Time Warner Center Cops National Building of the Year Honors
Related’s Time Warner Center, which won BOMA’s regional competition for commercial office buildings greater than 1 million square feet back in the spring, has been named The Office Building of the Year (”TOBY”) for 2008-2009 by the Building Owners and Managers Association International in the 1 million-square-foot or greater category. The tower earned the honor at BOMA’s annual conference a couple of weeks ago in Denver and joins 13 other awardees in a number of building types. The international honor comes after the Time Warner Center won at both the local and regional level.
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7Jul2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
New York City’s First Green Billboard Set for Times Square
Times Square is about to receive New York City’s first green-powered electronic billboard. Tokyo-based Ricoh Company, Ltd. will install a 47 by 126 foot sign on the Reuters Building (3 Times Square, at the northwestern corner of 42nd Street and 7th Avenue) that will draw power from 45 solar panels and 4 wind turbines. In what should be an interesting twist, if the photovoltaics do not receive sufficient sunlight or winds are not strong enough to drive the turbines, the sign will simply not illuminate. According to Ricoh, the installation should account for a reduction of 18 tons in carbon dioxide per year.
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3Jul2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Related’s Time Warner Center Seeks -EB, Named 2008 BOMA Office Building of the Year
Back in late April, the Mid-Atlantic Conference of Building Owners and Managers Association named the Related Companies’ Time Warner Center in Columbus Circle its 2008 Office Building of the Year (for buildings larger than 1 million square feet). Related is currently seeking a LEED-EB rating for the 80-story, 2.8 million-square foot tower, which was completed back in 2004. In order to confer the award, BOMA ranked buildings on a scale of 1-80 based on categories that included environmental and energy management, emergency preparedness, and tenant relations.
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5Jun2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
1745 Broadway: Random House Earns Gotham’s Second LEED-EB Rating
Last week, Random House announced that its North American headquarters building at 1745 Broadway has earned New York City’s second LEED for Existing Buildings (LEED-EB) certification. To date, only the New York Mercantile Exchange in Battery Park City had formally received the award from USGBC. Random House was able to earn its rating in just nine months; the LEED-EB program requires a building to submit three months of performance data in order to participate and seek the designation. The project team at 1745 Broadway included AKF and LiRo, who both assisted Random House in turning their existing corporate building management strategy into a LEED-EB application.
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27May2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Monday LEEDoff: Bank Inks Sublease at –EB Tower in Midtown
In addition to its 250 West 55th Street project that will aim for LEED Gold, Boston Properties is currently pursuing LEED for Existing Buildings (”LEED-EB”) certification for two of its Manhattan office buildings –Times Square Tower (1 Times Square) and 599 Lexington Avenue (between East 52nd and 53rd Streets). Designed by architect Edward Larrabee Barnes, Boston Properties built the 47-story 599 Lexington back in 1986. Last week, the real estate investment bank Savills Granite (formerly Granite Partners) subleased 18,000 square feet on 599 Lexington’s 36th floor, requiring additional office space after a recent merger with London-based property manager Savills.
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5May2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Monday LEEDoff: AOL Opens New HQ at 770 Broadway
Last week, AOL officially opened its new corporate headquarters at 770 Broadway, relocating from its former base in Dulles, Virginia. The building, which dates from 1903 and was designed by Daniel Burnham (the Flatiron Building), occupies the entire block between East 8th and 9th Streets and is currently pursuing a LEED for Existing Buildings (”LEED-EB”) rating. AOL’s new space was designed by Mancini Duffy, and it too will seek LEED certification, presumably under the Commercial Interiors system, though specific details on those efforts are unavailable. Landmarked and owned by Vornado Realty Trust, 770 Broadway is the former site of the Wanamaker Department Store. The tower currently offers 165,000 square feet of retail space; tenants include Ann Taylor Loft, Kmart, and Bank of America. AOL’s lease is for 152,000 square feet over two floors at the 15-story tower until 2022.
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21Apr2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
gbNYC Audiocast, Episode 4: The Argonaut & Existing Buildings
Episode 4 of the gbNYC Audiocast takes a look back at gbNYC’s recent post about the pending green renovations at the historic Argonaut Building on 57th Street and Broadway. As you’ll recall, and as we describe in greater detail in the episode, the Argonaut was initially built in 1909 and served as the headquarters for General Motors; the building’s name actually comes from that of GM’s holding real estate holding company. The neo-Gothic, terra cotta tower was landmarked by the city back in 2000. We also discuss sustainable design in the context of existing buildings, including the often misunderstood interplay between LEED for Existing Buildings and Energy Star.
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12Mar2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Media Campus at Brooklyn Navy Yard, LEED-EB Platinum in Buffalo, & Tough Green Real Estate Market
gbNYC selects green news items of note that were reported across the New York City area during the week of February 3, 2008, including a film and entertainment district at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York State’s first LEED-EB certification in Buffalo, and further details on criteria for development proposals at Hudson Yards. As always, descriptions and links are after the jump.
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10Feb2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Planning a Green Getaway? Eco-Friendly Hotels Abound Across the Golden State
The weather here in New York has been miserable of late, so it’s tough not to think about skipping town for a few days to sunnier skies. If you’ve reached that point already, Gregory Dicum of the New York Times recently visited four green hotels in California, including the Gaia Napa Valley Hotel, about which […]
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29Dec2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | 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 […]
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26Nov2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
CB Richard Ellis to Enroll 100 Buildings in LEED-EB Through Portfolio Program
CB Richard Ellis (”CBRE”) will select 100 office buildings from the 1,000 that it manages in the U.S. to join the LEED Portfolio Program under the Existing Buildings (”LEED-EB”) standard. The plan comes on the heels of the firm’s announcement that it will aim to become carbon neutral by the end of 2010. CBRE told […]
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