The Bronx

The Rauch Residence: New York City's First Single-Family LEED-H Certification

Thu

Oct

The Building Studio Architects has earned New York City's first LEED for Homes ("LEED-H") certification for a private, single-family residence. The 3200-square-foot Rauch Residence is located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx and was originally built back in 1939. The Building Studio's 1700-square-foot addition to the house included a number of LEED-standard green design features, including the installation of energy-efficient appliances, low-flow water fixtures, double flush toilets, and efficient landscape watering systems. The project has earned a LEED Silver certification from USGBC.

Intervale Green: Affordable, Sustainable, & Wired in the Bronx

Wed

Jul

by Stephen Del Percio

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Intervale Green is a $45 million, 127-unit affordable housing development under construction in the Morrisania section of the Bronx. The project should open up sometime this fall and is accepting applications through August 3 (see link below). Project sponsor Women's Housing & Economic Development Corporation teamed with energy consultant Steven Winter Associates to reduce the building's expected energy costs by 35 percent through numerous sustainable design elements, including the installation of EnergyStar appliances and light fixtures.

Serviam Gardens: Affordable Green Living for Bronx Seniors

Tue

Jul

by Stephen Del Percio

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Serviam Gardens will be a 240-unit housing development for low- to middle-income senior citizens when it opens in the last quarter of 2009. Developed by Bronx-based affordable housing developer Fordham Bedford Housing Corporation, the $66 million project is set to break ground tomorrow and will rise in a vacant lot behind Mount Saint Ursula's convent and girls' high school in Bedford Park in the Bronx. OCV Architects designed the two-tower project, which will incorporate a number of unspecified green design features pursuant to Enterprise Green Communities Criteria; Enterprise provided low-income tax credit financing for the project. You may recall the same Fordham Bedford/OCV team from Jacob's Place, the 63-unit affordable rental building that opened earlier this year in the Fordham section of the Bronx.

Fordham's Campbell Hall: Green Higher Education in the Bronx

Fri

Feb

by Stephen Del Percio

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Fordham University will begin construction in late April on two new seven-story residential buildings at its Rose Hill campus in the Bronx, both designed by Sasaki Associates to achieve an unspecified level of LEED certification. Campbell Hall, the larger of the two buildings at 90,000 square feet, will be named for Robert E. Campbell and his wife, whose $10 million donation to the University back in December was one of the largest in Fordham's history. Together, the residence halls will offer 166,000 square feet of living space, divided into four- and six-person suites. Sasaki is still ironing out green design features, but it's possible that the project could include rooftop rainwater collection systems, as well as LEED-standard efficient lighting and recycled construction materials.