Category : Green Building

Energy, Money, & Law conference

REW Staff July 2, 2014 July 2, 2014

by REW StaffJuly 2, 2014July 2, 20141168

[imagebrowser id=318] As part of New York Energy Week, The Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College presented a conference,“ Energy, Money & Law: Investment and Legal Strategies for Advanced Energy Performance in Real Estate” on June 19. The event was presented in partnership with Associated Renewable, the energy consulting...

Green Building Property Managers

Converting tar beach into an environmentally friendly place

REW Staff June 25, 2014 June 25, 2014

by REW StaffJune 25, 2014June 25, 20141041

By Dennis J. Sherry, regional director of Management Services, Newmark Grubb Knight Frank With 44 million square feet of office space under management in New York City, Newmark Grubb Knight Frank oversees the replacement of one or more roofs in the metro area every year. Looking at several initiatives to...

Green Building

NYU Schack launches three continents program

REW Staff June 11, 2014 June 11, 2014

by REW StaffJune 11, 2014June 11, 2014730

Responding to a growing trend toward international real estate market investment, the NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate recently offered its graduate students the opportunity to participate in study tours to Singapore, Poland, or Columbia as participants in the newly created Three Continents Program. NYU Schack graduate students were given...

Green Building Property Managers

SUNY gets an energy boost

REW Staff June 11, 2014 June 11, 2014

by REW StaffJune 11, 2014June 11, 2014681

utiliVisor, an energy monitoring and submetering firm, has formed a partnership with SUNY Maritime College that will facilitate the implementation of energy efficiency measures at SUNY facilities while creating training for Maritime cadets. As part of the partnership, Maritime will install a utiliVisor operations center at the school. Faculty and...

Construction & Design Green Building

Improving your building by energy audit

REW Staff April 30, 2014 April 30, 2014

by REW StaffApril 30, 2014April 30, 20141146

By John Segletes, Director, Lilker EMO Energy Solutions, LLC Behavior shifts and operational tweaks will affect a change in the energy consumption of commercial buildings, but the only way to truly target efficiency opportunities is by having an energy audit. An audit is a smart approach to weighing economic considerations...

Green Building

Investors seeing the light, pumping money into solar

REW Staff March 10, 2014 March 10, 2014

by REW StaffMarch 10, 2014March 10, 2014948

Investor interest in commercial solar projects has more than doubled in the last 12 months, according to a report by Mercatus, Inc., an investment analysis and decision making platform. Mercatus’ year-end analysis of commercial solar project investment and development trends revealed that exploration — and investment dollars — for solar...

Green Building Property Managers

NYC manager first out of DeBlasio’s green gate

REW Staff January 28, 2014 January 28, 2014

by REW StaffJanuary 28, 2014January 28, 2014

FirstService Residential has become the first property management firm to join the Mayor’s Carbon Challenge, a New York City program aimed at reducing energy use … Continued

Construction & Design Green Building

Engineers’ smart move leads to city’s biggest solar array

REW Staff December 17, 2013 December 17, 2013

by REW StaffDecember 17, 2013December 17, 2013671

Innovation by Con Edison engineers has enabled a restaurant supply company in the Bronx to install the largest solar array in New York City and feed excess power into the grid. The 4,760 high-efficiency SunPower panels at Jetro Cash and Carry’s Restaurant Depot facility provide 1.56 megawatts of electricity for...

Green Building Mergers and Acquisitions Property Managers

Direct Energy completes Hess biz buy

REW Staff December 17, 2013 December 17, 2013

by REW StaffDecember 17, 2013December 17, 20131375

Direct Energy has completed its acquisition of Hess Corporation’s Energy Marketing Business (HEM). According to Hess, the total consideration was $1.2 billion. The company has now raised a total of $4.5 billion this year as it divests itself of non-core business to focus on funding drilling-and-exploration. HEM supplies natural gas...

Construction & Design Green Building

Developers turning New York into Big Green Apple

REW Staff December 4, 2013 December 4, 2013

by REW StaffDecember 4, 2013December 4, 20131152

By Jonathan Pappas For some, it might be difficult to believe that a city as densely populated as The Big Apple with nearly one million buildings crowding the landscape is in fact one of the greenest, most energy efficient cities in the U.S. But for political officials, New Yorkers and...