DOB launches competition to find green building ideas
Commissioner Melanie E. La Rocca today announced the launch of the Carbon Neutrality Innovation Challenge, DOB’s first-ever competition to solicit ideas to increase energy efficiency
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Governor blows $1B into wind, solar energy development
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has unveiled new details of the state’s efforts to obtain 70 percent of the New York’s electricity from renewable sources by
Engineers announce climate partnership
Buro Happold, an international engineering consultancy, has announced a two-year investment in supporting the International Living Future Institute (ILFI), a global network dedicated to creating
Greystone provides $36M HUD loan for green development
Greystone provided a $36.4 million HUD-insured construction loan under the HUD 221(d)(4) program to Grubb Properties LLC for the development of Link Apartments 4th Street,
Green builder seeking new mega-factory sites
S2A, creators of the world’s first electrically self-sustaining, custom luxury homes and smart commercial buildings, has launched a nationwide search for locations to build eight
Multifamily finance non-profit announces plan to go carbon neutral
The Community Preservation Corporation (CPC), a nonprofit affordable housing and community revitalization finance company, has committed to attaining carbon neutral operations during the 2020 calendar
JLL helping Californians charge up electric plan
California’s largest workers comp fund has launched a major engery program designed by brokerage giant JLL and French multinational electric company, ENGIE. State Compensation Insurance
Industry welcomes Cuomo effort to build clean energy infrastructure
A plan to crank up efforts to make New York more sustainable faster has been hailed by the Real Estate Board of New York and
Thornton Tomasetti launches first-of-its-kind carbon measuring tool
Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm, has launched Beacon, an embodied carbon measurement tool poised to change the way structural engineers understand and manage embodied
Real estate industry bulks up green team
The city’s new Climate Advisory Board is weighted with experts from the real estate industry. Empire State Realty trust boss Tony Malkin as well as