Category : Green Building

Utility costs represent the single largest controllable expense in a multi-family housingcommunity, consuming 25 to 35% of most operating budgets. With the U.S. Departments of Energy and HUD working aggressively to improve energy efficiency in public and privately-owned housing communities, affordable housing managers trying to rein in energy costs have a new ally: the SEE The Light Property Manager’s Energy Toolkit.

MerrittView, Malkin Properties’ trophy office building in Norwalk, Connecticut, has earned the Energy Star designation from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for a third time, announced Jeffrey H. Newman, executive vice president for Malkin Properties, the marketing and managing agent for the building.

The Rust Belt city of Buffalo, N.Y., is recasting itself as a home for high-tech industry and green infrastructure. Central to this makeover is a … Continued

Benenson Capital Partners, LLC, one of the nation’s oldest privately-held real estate investment and development companies, has completed the installation of state-of-the-art rooftop solar energy equipment and paneling at 1600 Summer Street in Stamford, CT. The six-story, 260,000 s/f, technologically-advanced property is located on a five-acre campus. Benenson commissioned Elliot...

KBS Realty Advisors and its affiliated companies announced that two properties have received high ratings for sustainability. The Metropolitan Center, One Meadowlands Plaza, East Rutherford, NJ, achieved LEED EB Gold certification in 2011 and an EnergyStar rating in 2012. And 600 Campus Drive, part of the Park Avenue at Morris...

Hackensack University Medical Center (HackensackUMC) has awarded a contract to utiliVisor for energy monitoring and optimization services for the hospital’s central boiler plant. The project is being performed under a carbon abatement program offered by PSE&G in New Jersey. The PSE&G Hospital Efficiency Program is a $129 million initiative that...

Changes to LEED certification will change the way project teams think, integrate, plan, execute and operate their buildings, according to experts. At a workshop hosted by CoreNet Global NYC providing an overview of the upcoming changes to LEED v4, the U.S. Green Building Council’s Melissa Gallagher-Rogers said the changes will...