All Posts Tagged With: "LEED for Commercial Interiors"
Law Firm Purchases Manhattan’s “Original” Green Building for $70M
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-CI Platinum rating from USGBC. Oddly enough, a local plaintiffs’ law firm that has likely made millions prosecuting claims arising out of exposure to decidedly non-green building materials such as asbestos and lead paint has purchased 770 Broadway for $70 million.
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8Jul2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 2 comments | Continued
ML: Skanska USA to Seek Empire State Building’s First Platinum Rating
Skanska USA, the U.S. division of Swedish construction giant Skanska AB, is retrofitting the 32nd floor of the Empire State Building in pursuit of a LEED for Commercial Interiors Platinum rating from USGBC. Ranked by Engineering News-Record as America’s number 1 green contractor for 2007, Skanska USA’s area general manager Steve Pressler explained the firm’s philosophy behind the move in a press release, noting that Skanska’s “push for Platinum LEED certification not only aligns with our core business philosophies, but demonstrates to our current and existing clients our commitment to the green movement.” The construction giant signed a deal for a 15-year lease on the tower’s 32nd floor and will take 24,400 square feet upon moving from its current headquarters at 136 Madison Avenue.
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7Jul2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
ML: COFRA Group, Perkins+Will Complete –CI Gold Office at 277 Park
Perkins+Will recently completed a 30,000-square-foot fit-out of Switzerland-based investment conglomerate COFRA Group’s offices on the 29th floor of 277 Park Avenue in Midtown. The project is seeking a LEED Gold rating from USGBC under the Commercial Interiors system and includes numerous green design features, ranging from locally-sourced wood paneling and water-efficient fixtures to recycled-content glass partitions designed to increase the penetration of natural light. The space also features LED lighting and recycled denim insulation.
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23Jun2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
ML: BBG-BBGM to Seek Empire State Building’s First LEED (CI) Rating
Brennan Beer Gorman Architects / Brennan Beer Gorman Monk Interiors, designers of LEED Silver hopeful 330 Hudson Street, announced last week that it will move from 515 Madison Avenue into a new LEED Silver headquarters of its own. The firm will execute a green fit out of 32,000 square feet of space on the entire 25th floor of the Empire State Building under USGBC’s LEED for Commercial Interiors system. Green features will be replete throughout the space; BBG-BBGM has inked a 15-year lease for which terms were undisclosed.
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16Jun2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Monday LEEDoff: BCUE Unveils Green Gowanus HQ
On Saturday, the Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment held the grand opening of its new headquarters between Second and Third Avenues at 168 Seventh Street in Gowanus. The project is seeking Gold under USGBC’s LEED for Commercial Interiors rating system and consists of 18,000 square feet across two floors at was once a doll factory. For the past thirty years, BCUE has been creating programs for over 300 New York City public schools relating to sustainable urban environmental practices.
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12May2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued-
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