gbNYC selects green news items of note that were reported across the New York City area during the week of April 12, 2008, including a number of affordable LEED projects on the way in the Bronx in addition to the Morrisania Homes, the City’s selection of Gowanus Green for a LEED-ND development along the Gowanus Canal, and potential LEED-certified spaces for AOL at 770 Broadway and the New York Theater Workshop at 72 East 4th Street.
April 20th, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "Morrisania Homes"
LEED-H Works at Affordable Morrisania Homes in the Bronx
The February issue of Affordable Housing Finance magazine has a detailed article about the Morrisania Homes, certified Silver under the new LEED for Homes (”LEED-H”) standard. As gbNYC reported back in August, Morrisania is the first community in New York State certified under LEED-H. Made up of twenty-eight townhouses, the community’s developer, Blue Sea Development Company, signed on to use LEED for Homes during the standard’s Pilot Program phase (which is now closed). The project also checked in at #3 on gbNYC’s list of the top 5 New York City green buildings from 2007.
February 7th, 2008 | Meredith Taylor | 1 comment | Continued
Green Prefab in the Catskills: Alta Log Home, Fleischmanns, New York
USGBC’s LEED for Homes (“LEED-H”) Pilot Program is now closed; the organization’s constituents voted on its final approval during a period that ended a few weeks ago, and the system’s formal introduction should be forthcoming shortly. Three projects in New York State earned certification from USGBC under the Pilot Program, and we’ve presented two of [...]
December 13th, 2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Morrisania Homes in The Bronx Earn NY’s First Affordable Housing LEED-H Rating
The Morrisania Homes, a sixty-four unit development in the South Bronx that includes sixteen three-family and eight two-family homes, just became New York’s first affordable housing project to receive certification under USGBC’s LEED for Homes (”LEED-H”) Pilot Program (which should launch formally sometime this fall) and the first LEED-H Certified residences in New York City. [...]
August 15th, 2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued