Upstate

Upstate

Wolk Center for Excellence in Nursing: First LEED Silver Rating in Monroe County

Fri

Aug

Earlier this week, the Louis S. and Molly B. Wolk Center for Excellence in Nursing at Monroe Community College's Brighton Campus earned a LEED Silver rating from USGBC under the New Construction Version 2.2 system. The 22,800-square-foot project, deep upstate in Brighton, New York, was designed by Rochester-based SWBR Architects and replaced a series of nursing program classrooms, labs, and faculty offices that dated from the 1960s. The project targeted an 18.4 percent reduction in energy use over ASHRAE 90.1-2004 by installing exterior solar shades, daylight harvesting controls in common lounge spaces, and occupancy sensors to reduce the load on the building's HVAC system. 10.7 percent of the total materials cost for the project incorporated recycled content, and 11.9 percent of all building materials were sourced within 500 miles of the project site.

Monroe County to Construct LEED Silver Crime Lab in Rochester

Mon

Mar

by Stephen Del Percio

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The Monroe County Public Safety Lab is certainly one of the more esoteric LEED projects we've stumbled across recently. The four-story, 45,000-square-foot crime lab is will be located in downtown Rochester, rising from what is currently a parking lot. The lab- which is currently cramped into a 19,000-square-foot building that dates from 1963- serves law enforcement agencies in the City of Rochester and eight surrounding counties; 67 percent of its work comes from Rochester itself, which is contributing $1 million to the project. The lab performs DNA analysis of crime scene investigations and stores significant data on computers that are causing the space crunch at the existing lab. Green features at the $30 million facility will add around $700,000 to construction costs and include a white roof, recycled-content and locally sourced structural building materials, a graywater irrigation system, and reserved parking for hybrid vehicles and bicycles. Pike Company has been lined up to perform construction management and LEED consulting services for $139,000.

Evertson Hill: A “Third Generation” Green Home

Fri

Apr

by Stephen Del Percio

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Petrides Homes is a New York City-based designer and developer of residential projects that, last week, announced the completion of Evertson Hill in Millbrook, New York. The 4400-square-foot home sits on 22 acres in Smithfield Valley, just shy of 90 miles north of Manhattan, and offers 4 bedrooms, 4.5 baths, 4 wood-burning fireplaces, and an attached barn with a 500-square-foot loft and two-car garage. Putting aside the debate over whether such a large house should be deemed sustainable, the project incorporated a number of significant green design features even though it is not pursuing any formal third-party certification.