Green Buildings

Cost-effective and efficient water filtration for New York City buildings

Water is essential to life, but sadly plastic water bottles are not. Water bottling is one of the biggest polluting industries worldwide. Ov...

FXFOWLE honored as the 2010 Firm of the Year by AIANYS

The American Institute of Architects - New York State (AIANYS) has selected FXFOWLE as the recipient of the 2010 Firm of the Year Award. Thi...

W&H's 112 West 34th St. attains Energy Star status from EPA

112 West 34th St., a W&H office building in the Penn Plaza district, has earned the Energy Star designation from the U.S. Environmental Prot...

Artimus Construction completes $15 million, 80,000 s/f infill project designed by RKT&B

Construction of 1465 & 1473 Fifth Ave., an 80,000 s/f, $15 million Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) project in Harlem, is complete...

How a Phase I ESA can identify the potential presence of any RECs

When purchasing a distressed property the environmental quality of the site is an important factor to consider. First of all, in NYS once a ...

"Lean/Green" relocation strategies: Value-engineered sustainability legacies

Because no two relocations are ever the same, the process is comparable, in a sense, to "white noise," defined by both the Business and Merr...

Dattner Architects' design for Battery Park City Parks Conservancy earns LEED Platinum under the Commercial Interiors Program

The new 40,500 s/f Battery Park City Parks Conservancy Maintenance Facility consolidates the Conservancy's extensive maintenance activities,...

Daylighting the workplace

Working in a poorly lit space has long been considered depressing and unproductive. To improve this condition, Architects employ the concept...

How you can help the planet and still enjoy the durability/aesthetics of traditional flooring

For many of us at Flooring Liquidators, environmental responsibility has become a determining factor in the design choices we make in our ho...

U.S. Energy installs new solar panels at company's headquarters

Jerry Pindus, CEO of U.S. Energy Group, recently unveiled the new solar panels on the roof of the company's headquarters located at 78-40 16...