Green Buildings

Battery Place Market opens 4,600 s/f store at Albanese Organization's Visionaire; Pursuing LEED Gold

Battery Place Market, a 4,600 s/f gourmet grocery pursing LEED-Gold certification, has opened for business at the ground level retail space ...

Syska Hennessy's 175,000 s/f Cooper Union project awarded LEED Platinum certification

According to Syska Hennessy Group, their project, the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, was awarded LEED Platinum certifi...

Kramer Levin launches green law blog: www.GreenEsqBlog.com

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP has launched its "green" blog, "GreenEsq." at www.GreenEsqBlog.com. The blog is an interdepartmental eff...

If you build it (green) they will come - and they did!

Building green and the positive results, as he visualized them, was surely the thought persisting in the mind of Larry Silverstein president...

Utility submetering: Living green to save green this heating season

Submetering water in multifamily and commercial properties is no longer an option for property owners in the state of Georgia. The Water Ste...

Yonkers IDA approves economic deal for $200 million construction of green power converter station

The board of Yonkers Industrial Development Agency (IDA) has passed a resolution to negotiate an economic incentive package with Champlain H...

Horst Design International designs new green 16 Handles yogurt shop

After two years in Manhattan's East Village, the 16 Handles self serve frozen yogurt franchise is expanding to Long Island. A new green envi...

Sustainable Practice

Lately, I've been spending a lot of time thinking about indicators of effectiveness. Whether I hear debates about taxes, education or health...

40,000 BTUs per day from a vertical blind!

I have found a great solution for creating passive heat in the winter months. It's a vertical blind that can generates its' own heat. It's c...

Greening properties can be simple

Greening your property can be overwhelming sometimes. So many options to chose from and explore. Using solar and geothermal as reusable ener...