All Posts Tagged With: "New Jersey"
Second Building at Willow School in Gladstone, New Jersey Earns LEED Rating
The private K-8 Willow School in Gladstone, New Jersey has already received a LEED Gold rating from USGBC for its main building. Phase II of the school’s green construction efforts included a 13,000-square-foot structure dubbed “the Barn,” which includes a middle school, dining hall, and performing arts space. Not to be outdone by the main building, the Barn recently earned a LEED Platinum rating based on green features that include recycled Douglas fir and terrazzo glass tile recycled from airplane windshields.
11Nov2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Bachman-Wilson House: Green, Usonian Architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright
There are only four Frank Lloyd Wright-designed houses in the state of New Jersey. One of them- located in Millstone, in Somerset County and dating from 1954- was purchased by architects Lawrence and Sharon Tarantino back in 1988. The house is an example of Wright’s Usonian style, which contemplated his vision for a new American architectural vernacular. Approximately 100 Wright-designed Usonian homes dot the country, and each is a good reminder that green architecture is not a new phenomenon. Wright executed his design for the Bachman-Wilson House- like all other Usonian homes- with a number of green design features.
3Nov2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
element Ewing: Green Hospitality, Franchise Law in Trenton, New Jersey
Starwood recently announced plans to develop one of its element brand hotels in Ewing, New Jersey. The element Ewing will be located just outside Trenton in Mercer County and feature 123 guest rooms with a modern design aesthetic. The project plans to seek an unspecified level of LEED certification pursuant. LEED-standard features in each element hotel include Energy Star-rated appliances and lighting, water-efficient fixtures, low-VOC and recycled-content materials, and priority parking for hybrid vehicles. The element Ewing will offer guests 2900 square feet of meeting space and rooms with modular furniture and a full kitchen. Each hotel that opens under Starwood’s element brand is required to pursue LEED certification, which raises some interesting issues with respect to franchise law.
16Oct2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued
First Avenue District School in Newark, New Jersey Earns Green Award of Merit
The First Avenue District School in Newark, New Jersey recently earned an Award of Merit from New York Construction magazine in connection with its “Best of ‘08″ awards program. The elementary and middle school was designed by Paulus, Sokolowski & Sartor (”PS&S”) and includes green design features that would qualify it for 31 different LEED credits, though Newark chose not to pursue formal certification (citing cost considerations). Some of those green features include daylight and occupancy sensors, passive solar design, and efficient, full spectrum lighting. Locally sourced and recycled-content materials were used during construction, while other LEED-standard features include light pollution reduction, water-efficient landscaping, low-VOC paints and sealants, and a construction waste management program. The school’s common areas- including the theater, gym, and cafeteria- are heated and cooled by a 480-foot-deep geothermal system.
10Oct2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued
Bikes in Buildings Bill, Williamsburg’s LEED Silver Edge v. Sarah Palin, More Green Leasing, & Gotham’s First Electric Delivery Truck
gbNYC selects green news items of note that were reported across the New York City area during the week of September 28, 2008, including a push for David Yassky’s Bikes in Buildings Bill, which would require commercial and office buildings to offer bike storage space to tenants, jabs at Sarah Palin from Williamsburg’s LEED Silver hopeful Edge condo project, more space for AOL at 770 Broadway, which is pursuing a LEED for Existing Buildings rating from USGBC, and the debut of the first electric-powered delivery truck in New York City, now making the rounds from Hunts Point in the Bronx.
5Oct2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Risk Building: Historic Green Renovation Underway in Summit, New Jersey
Greenock Capital is executing a green renovation of the historic two-story Risk Building at 535 Springfield Avenue in Summit, New Jersey. The building dates from 1873 and is named for Dr. William H. Risk, a medical doctor who settled in Summit that same year. Greenock has retained Wesketch Architecture of Millington, New Jersey as the architect of record for the project, which will preserve much of the building’s original granite and brownstone facade features. Although the project is incorporating numerous green design elements, it does not appear that it will seek any formal third-party green building certification. The new structure will be called the Claremont Corporate Center and include various energy-efficient upgrades, ranging from extensive daylighting and interior occupancy sensors to new elevators and exterior lighting.
30Sep2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Center for Lifelong Learning Hopes to Become First LEED Platinum School in Garden State
Designed by USA Architects of Somerville, New Jersey, the 90,000-square-foot Center for Lifelong Learning will accomodate 175 autistic and disabled children aged 3 to 21 and is aiming for the first LEED Platinum rating of any school in the state of New Jersey. The $23 million project just recently broke ground in Sayreville and should be ready in September of 2009. The school will offer 24 classrooms, as well as physical therapy, gymnasium, and aquatics space, which will also be used by Sayreville’s Brain Injured Children’s Swim program.
24Sep2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
More Green Building Legislation May be Imminent for Garden State
Earlier this week, Hudson County Assemblyman Ruben Ramos of Hoboken sponsored two green building bills as New Jersey’s fall legislative session opened up in Trenton. The first, A1626, would require affordable housing to implement green design features, though the bill as proposed does not mandate any particular formal certification or include specifics on how the legislation would be enforced. The second, A2065, would provide low-interest loans available to developers who construct or renovate a building that qualifies as a “high-performance green building,” which is defined in the bill as “a building having at least 15,000 square feet in total floor area that is designed and constructed in a manner that achieves at least a [S]ilver rating according to the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Building Rating System as adopted by the United States Green Building Council.” Ramos was also a co-sponsor of last year’s Green Building Tax Credit Act (S1077, which is apparently still pending before the legislature); that bill would provide developers with up to $20 million in annual tax credits which they’d be able to apply to their state corporate, income, sewer, and water taxes.
18Sep2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued
SJP Properties to Seek LEED Rating for Metropark Corporate Center
I spent a few months a couple of years ago reviewing documents out at a client’s in Iselin, New Jersey. I’d take the train out from Penn Station to Metropark, a station serving a sprawling office park plunked down at the crossroads of New Jersey, which sits quite literally in between the intersection of the Garden State Parkway and New Jersey Turnpike, about 45 minutes from Midtown and and Philadelphia on the Northeast Corridor. Parking garages are linked to the station (which is currently undergoing a $30 million dollar renovation) and low-rise corporate office buildings are easily accessible as well. Although there’s no residential component (or any real pedestrian access to speak of), I always thought of Metropark as a type of transit-oriented development; quick access to major roads with easy rail connections to the entire Northeast and Newark Airport. Accordingly, it wasn’t all that surprising to me that SJP Properties announced yesterday that it will seek a LEED rating for a 300,000-square-foot, 10-story office building that it will develop across the street from the station.
11Sep2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
791 Parking Spaces for Platinum: New Jersey’s Greenest Building Set to Open in Morristown
Notwithstanding its 791-space parking garage, 14 Maple Avenue in Morristown is about to become the greenest building in New Jersey. The 30,000-square foot, four-story structure is being built by the Morristown Parking Authority and will seek a LEED Platinum rating from USGBC. In addition to housing Authority offices, the building will also be home to the non-profit offices of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, The Seeing Eye Inc., the Fannie E. Rippel Foundation, the Morristown Partnership and the Morris Arts Council. The parking garage will allot spaces for both members of the public and building employees. David Grant, the Dodge Foundation’s president, stated that “our goals were to create a green building that is both educational and inspirational.” In addition to bamboo and cork covered floors, plants are essential to the green features of the building.
2Sep2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
ML: Princeton’s Carl A. Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding
Boston-based Anna Beha Architects (”ABA”) has designed a renovation and expansion of Princeton University’s Carl A. Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding, whose building dates from 1901 and was formerly one of the school’s eating clubs. The project recently broke ground and contemplates a 5080-square-foot addition to the original, Italianate-style base building, which will house 18,8000 square feet of programming, office, and classroom space. The architect’s challenge was to reclaim the building’s original design, which it discovered through researching the university’s archives had been buried by a series of poorly executed previous renvovations. ABA was charged with creating useable outdoor space, as well as visible entry points into the structure.
18Aug2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued
Mega-Rich Go Green, Bloomberg’s Global Warming Task Force, MTA’s Green Escalators, & Randall’s Island Green Roof
gbNYC selects green news items of note that were reported across the New York City area during the week of August 10, 2008, including developer Joseph Moinian’s 1500-foot-deep geothermal well on Park Avenue, Mayor Bloomberg’s Climate Change Adaptation Task Force, difficulties as the MTA turns on its new green escalators, the installation of a 7000-square-foot green roof on Randall’s Island, and more green legislation for both New York City and New Jersey.
17Aug2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued
Hoboken Sustainability Primer: From Green Buildings to Clean Power
gbNYC has noted two green projects on the Hoboken side of the Hudson previously; we pointed you to SJP Properties’ Waterfront Corporate Center III and Bijou Properties’ Dean Marchetto-designed, 180-unit condo project on 14th Street, both of which are seeking LEED ratings from USGBC. Green efforts in Hoboken aren’t limited to these projects alone, though; Bijou is also developing the Garden Street Lofts at 14th and Bloomfield Streets, which were also designed by Marchetto and are seeking a LEED Silver rating. Meanwhile, Mayor David Roberts recently announced a tax credit plan for residential owners that install solar panels and is quick to point out Hoboken’s taxi fleet that features seven hybrids.
13Aug2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued-
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