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Zero Net Energy Buildings: Financial Incentives and Valuation
June 4, 2009 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM FREE for Academy Members Clickhereto register Adopting new design practices and incorporating new technologies required to construct a zero net energy building may add substantially to initial costs. However, the investment in technologies to achieve net-zero energy usage is recouped over the life-time of the building. In order for developers to make this investment, sufficient financial incentive needs to be provided. This panel will address the valuation of the energy-generating and efficiency features of zero net energy buildings. This meeting is the final discussion in a 4- part series focused on achieving zero net energy in buildings. Renewable energy technologies, global best practices, and how to retrofit existing buildings are just a few of the topics covered this year. As a neutral third party, the Academy formed a network of the key players in New York in the areas of green buildings and sustainable design. This collective includes architects, engineers, scientists, policy makers from city and state, foundation and non-profit leaders. Abstracts Financial Incentives and Valuation of Zero Net Energy Buildings In this fourth and final presentation in our series on Zero Net Energy Buildings, Mr. Muldavin will address the critical role of financial incentives and valuation to achieving zero net energy buildings. In order to bridge the growing chasm between public and private energy efficiency goals and actions, and meet societal needs, private property energy efficiency decisions must move beyond cost considerations to fully integrate the true value of carbon/energy efficiency. Mr. Muldavin will present GBFC's Sustainable Property Performance Framework, a new approach to understanding how sustainable properties need to be measured to support financially based decision-making. Next he will outline GBFC's six-step methodology for financial analysis of sustainable properties that provides a practical means for integrating non-cost related energy benefits, as well as potential health and productivity benefits, into value and energy efficiency investment decisions. Finally, the relative importance and role of financial incentives will be discussed, along with observations about society's evolution to a Zero Net Energy society. Re-Skin Our Cities We know how to build new buildings with a low carbon footprint, but little attention has been paid to the thousands of existing structures worldwide that are extremely inefficient and have a massive carbon impact. In North America alone they account for 40% of all greenhouse gas emissions. To address this we need not only a technical solution, but a financial one. The goal of the Zerofootprint Building Re-Skinning Competition is to drive the state-of-the-art in retrofitting the built space-in design, materials, technology, and in retrofitting systems that may be scaled to large numbers of buildings. The hope is to create a methodology for creating zero net energy buildings worldwide. A big part of this is developing the financial model that can also be replicated. Ron Dembo's talk will explore ways in which we can get from here to there. Registration  June 16th, Big Apple Brownfield Workshop: Where is the Money? The Mayor's Office of Environmental Remediation (OER) invites you to attend the Big Apple Brownfield Workshop: Where is the Money? on June 16th at CUNY Graduate Center. This event is directed towards developers, land owners, BOA groups, community development organizations, non-profits, consultants, students, and the public. Register now <http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=cGZ5QzRLU3lNNDI2d1JMc2lBVGd2VUE6MA>. Registration is Free! workshop_flyer9.pdf
Link | 0 commentsThe workshop will consist of educational presentations on financial resources accessible to investigate, remediate, and develop brownfield properties in NYC. Presentations will be given by experts in the industry, followed by a panel with a question and answer session on financing brownfield deals in the current market. The event will also feature a networking lunch and display presentations highlighting projects, available resources, and industry expertise. When:June 16, 2009 Where:CUNY Graduate Center, concourse level, 365 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY (at 35th Street) Time:8:30am to 1:30pm Preliminary Agenda: New York City environmental remediation programs-Daniel Walsh, MOER EPA brownfield grants-Lee Ilan, MOER NYC Acquisition Fund, Metro Fund loan programs-Mark McIntyre, MOER Start-Up Pool-Laura Truettner, New Partners for Community Revitalization NYS Brownfield Cleanup Program tax credits-Phil Bousquet, Green Seifter NYS Brownfield Opportunity Area program, Curtis Cravens, NYS Department of State NYS incentive programs-Joe Tazewell, Empire State Development Corp. NYS energy incentives-Michael T. Colgrove, NYSERDA NYC business incentives-Don Giampietro, NYC Department of Small Business Services Panel of attorneys, brokers, lenders, developers discussing financing brownfield deals in the current market-moderated by Andrea Kretchmer, The Kretchmer Companies Question & Answer session Lunch May 29-31: Second New York Loves Mountains Festival The Second Annual New York Loves Mountains Festival is coming up at the end of May to raise awareness and promote a ban of mountain top removal coal in NY State. This year's lineup will feature a reading of a new play "Light Comes", a rally in Union Square and a concert at The Bell House in Brooklyn. For complete details, visit www.nylovesmountains.com. Friday, May 29th Playreading and Reception @ Philip Coltoff Center, 219 Sullivan St. 7:00-11:00 p.m. Light Comes by Sarah Moon, an epic play on mountain top removal and the history of electricity. A reception with live music by Ben Sollee and refreshments will precede and follow the reading. NEEDS: Wine/Liquor donations VOLUNTEERS FOR: Reservation check-in, usher, wine service Saturday May 30th Rally/Press Conference @ South End of Union Square 1:00-2:00 p.m. Coalfield Residents, City council members and state representative Daniel Squadron will join to speak about mountain top removal and efforts to ban its use in New York State NEEDS: loudspeaker and mic, small platform VOLUNTEERS FOR: Overseeing information & action table, handing out fliers Sunday, May 31st To Save the Land and People Concert @ The Bell House, 149 7th St., Brooklyn 7:30 p.m. VOLUNTEERS FOR: Checking people in GENERAL NEEDS: Providing overnight stay for out-of -town guests Posting fliers in your neighborhood
Link | 0 comments MATERIALS for a NEW CITY:Alternatives to Tropical Hardwoods for Public Outdoor Infrastructure Friday, May 29, 2009 12 noon-3:30pm (lunch provided) Manhattan Borough President?(TM)s Office 1 Center Street, 19th Floor South *free event, open to the public* Sponsored by: Staten Island Borough President James P. Molinaro, State Senator Liz Krueger, State Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh, Councilmember Oliver Koppell, Rainforest Relief and NY Climate Action Group According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, an area of rainforest the size of a football field is destroyed every second?"that?(TM)s an area the size of Manhattan every three hours. The use of old growth tropical hardwoods by New York City agencies has been recognized by Mayor Bloomberg as a significant contributor to global climate change: 25% of human-caused carbon emissions are the result of deforestation. Yet New York City remains the single largest consumer of tropical hardwoods in North America. SCHEDULE 12:00-12:30: Lunch 12:30-1:00: Welcome and Introduction Tim Keating, Executive Director, Rainforest Relief, The Role of Tropical Wood Use in Deforestation and Climate Change Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh, State Legislation on Tropical Hardwoods 1:00-2:20: Recycled Plastic Lumber Dr. Thomas Nosker, Professor, Rutgers University AMIPP, The History and Technical Development of HSTL Materials Mick Langford, Trelleborg, Pilings, Bumpers and Ferry Terminals from Recycled Plastic George Nagle, P.E., Axion Intl., Axion Recycled Plastic Lumber Malcolm G. McLaren, President, McLaren Engineering, The Use of RPL for Marine Applications. 2:20-2:30: Break 2:30-3:10: Domestic Woods Klaas Armster, Owner, Armster Reclaimed Lumber, Durable Domestic Woods: Their Properties and Availability Michael Corsello, President, Nash Lumber, Cambia? Thermally Modified Hardwoods 3:10-3:30: New York City Parks Celia Petersen, R.L.A., Director, Office of Specifications, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, Bamboo Benches, ?~Burnt?(TM) Boards and Assorted Atypical Alternatives ?" NYC Parks Department?(TM)s Experience with Alternative Materials During the 20th century, in an effort to create safe and functional infrastructure for our City, agencies turned to the use of tropical hardwoods. They built tens of thousands of park benches, 12.5 miles of boardwalk, dozens of miles of subway tracks, the fendering and pilings of the Staten Island Ferry Terminal, the decking of South Street Seaport and the Brooklyn Bridge promenade. This adds up to millions of board feet of tropical hardwood?"and the loss of countless acres of rainforest. If there were an economically viable and ecologically sound material for public outdoor infrastructure, strong enough that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers used it to build bridges for tanks, wouldn?(TM)t you choose that instead of rainforest wood? In February 2008, the Mayor's Office of Long-term Planning and Sustainability crafted the Tropical Hardwoods Reduction Plan, which calls for a 60% reduction in city agencies?(TM) use of rainforest wood by 2020. However, with newly proposed marine transfer stations, miles-long renovations of Hudson River Park and dozens of other projects?"none of which are counted in the OLTPS Reduction Plan?"NYC is geared to double its consumption of tropical hardwoods. Our City can do better. We can institute a smart, responsible procurement policy that prevents the unnecessary destruction of pristine rainforests. All of the outdoor infrastructure currently using tropical hardwoods can easily and readily be constructed with alternative materials such as recycled plastic lumber. This high-tech material, invented at Rutgers University and favored by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, will last far longer than any wood. The switch to RPL would utilize NYC?(TM)s plastic wastes, create local industry and local jobs, reduce pollution and save public funds by eliminating the maintenance costs of rotten and worn wood. City agencies could also opt to build with durable domestic wood, produced from local sustainable forestry operations. Many forward-thinking engineers and designers have already embraced materials that protect rainforests and spark local economies. The Chicago Transit Authority has utilized more than 125,000 RPL track ties for their light rail system. RPL ferry terminals have been built in many sites around the country and internationally. Here in NYC, the Parks Department has recently switched to domestic wood for park benches, thus eliminating the use of 50,000 board feet of tropical hardwoods each year. They?(TM)ve also committed to building new boardwalks without any tropical hardwood. Join us for an afternoon of informative presentations by the nation?(TM)s leading experts on the use of recycled plastic lumber and domestic hardwoods in public outdoor infrastructure. Together, we can design, build and repair our City without harming the planet. For more info or questions: RainforestsofNewYork.org * RainforestRelief.org 917-543-4064 * rainforestsny@gmail.com http://www.friendsofbrookpark.org Activists are a threatened species, but there's safety in numbers. If you can't be active, please $upport your local environmental activist. 646.648.4362 PO Box 801 The South Bronx, NY 10454 Labels: events Link | 0 comments Powering the Future: Residential Energy Efficiency Wed April 29th, 2009 8:30am to 11:00am |
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Safeguarding History and the Environment: Commonalities and Conflicts between Preservation and Sustainability
Wed April 15th, 2009 6:30 - 8:00 P.M.
AIA Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Place
A Panel Discussion
Join moderator and Director of Research and Education at the World
Monuments Fund Erica Avrami on this panel tackling the various
conflicts and commonalities that exist between preserving buildings
and making them sustainable. Explore the importance of both historic
preservation and sustainabilityâ&euro?and how they can work togetherâ&euro?
through in-depth discussion of both fields and case studies of East
Village tenement buildings and the McCarren Pool in Brooklyn.
Preservation and sustainability are both big issues, especially in
the current economic environment, but the two movements have not
always worked had in hand. This panel will seek to start the
conversation about the common ground and differing perspectives of
the two.
Featuring panelists Chris Benedict, a sustainability architect and
Pratt Institute faculty member known for her work in adaptive reuse;
Fiona Cousins, an expert on all aspects of sustainable design who has
worked on both renovations and new builds; Scott Demel, an associate
architect at Rogers Marvel Architects whose work has focused on
restoration with a commitment to sustainable design; and Ned Kaufman,
a heritage conservation specialist and founder of Place Matters, a
nonprofit dedicated to discovering and protecting places that matter
in New Yorkâ&euro£s diverse communities.
This event is co-sponsored by the American Institute of Architects
Historic Buildings Committee and the Neighborhood Preservation Center.
http://www.gvshp.org/_gvshp/
Reservations required.
RSVP to rsvp@gvshp.org or (212) 475-9585 ext. 35
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Sustainable Pratt Meeting
Wed April 8th Our next monthly Sustainable Pratt meeting is Wednesday, April 8th, from 12:30 - 1:45 pm in Engineering 108 on the main Pratt campus.
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Link | 0 comments GREEN WEEK 2009!!! GREEN WEEK 2009!!!
The Sustainable Pratt Committee is proud to announce Green Week 2009, Pratt Institute's third Annual information blitz on Sustainable Design, March 30-April 3. This year the event-packed week will be followed by a Biomimicry Workshop on Saturday April 4, 9:30-4, organized by Jenny Lee, and open to the public.
A calendar of events, locations, and times can be found at: sustainablepratt.org/greenweek.
Student Eco-Reps and members of Envirolution are collaborating with Faculty volunteers to create the biggest and most varied campus-wide celebration of environmental action to date on the Brooklyn campus.
Highlights include displays, films, forums and lectures in Higgins Hall, the Terian Design Center in Pratt Studios, the Pratt Center/ ARC, as well as outdoor events throughout the campus. In addition, the recently formed program, CSDS /Curriculum Studies in Sustainable Design, directed by Debera Johnson, will launch its new sustainable materials research library in the Engineering Building.
Some of the many guest speakers include a design team from FXFOWLE and a representative of the Audubon Society; Bianca Ramsey of the US Green Building Council; designer Brian Collins and architect Kevin Bone, editor of Water-Works and professor at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union.
This Spring Pratt's greening campus will become an open forum and creative canvas for all who want to learn more and do more to protect our planet and our community. Link | 0 comments
Better Site Development Workshop
Thursday, December 4th
Sustainable Pratt and the New York City Soil and Water Conservation District are sponsoring a workshop on "Better Site Development" to be held on Thursday, December 4th, 8:30am - 1:00pm, Pratt Institute Manhattan (144 W 14th St), Room 213.This workshop will provide landscape architects, designers, and city planners the tools to develop sites with a sustainable design. Presenters will give attendees examples and resources focused on redeveloping NYC buildings and landscape to improve environmental quality, reduce the burdens on current city infrastructure, enhance site aesthetics, and protect surrounding natural resources.
Topics will include an overview of Low Impact Development (presented by Tatiana Morin of NYCSWCD); pros, cons and structural precautions for LID implementation (presented by Tim Conover White of eDesign Dynamics, LLC); and stormwater BMP design and construction (presented by Marit Larson of City of NY Dept of Parks and Recreation).
For more information and registration details, download the flyer: BetterSiteDevelopmentFlyer.pdf
To register, contact Tatiana Morin of NYCSWCD (tatiana@nycswcd.net)
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Link | 0 comments Sustainable Pratt Meeting
Wednesday, December 3rd Our next, monthly Sustainable Pratt meeting is Wednesday, December 3rd from 12:30 - 1:45 pm in Engineering 108 on the main Pratt campus.
On the agenda:
- Brief updates of member activities
- Third-Year Design update (Brent Porter)
- CSDS and the "Green Campus Initiative" (Deb Johnson)
- Sust Pratt priorities for Spring 2009
- Events (Green Week 2009!)
- Budget
- New leadership for the Spring
Sustainable Pratt meetings are held monthly, on the first Wednesday of the month.
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Link | 0 comments Spring 2009 Sustainable Design Course
INT-525P with Prof. Carol Crawford Carol Crawford (NYSCID, member U.S. Green Building Council) is once again offering INT-525P Sustainable Design as a two-credit course in the Department of Interior Design. In Spring 2009, the class will again be a major player in creating campus awareness and providing information during Green Week.
The course description:
This course addresses sustainability as an over-arching design issue as well as a philosophical and ethical one: Through slide lectures, films, case studies, site visits, special projects, and discussions with experts, we will explore what sustainability means theoretically and practically for the design community, how it developed and what global & local issues drive it; how it impacts upon the very substance and appearance of what we create and build. Most particularly, we will discover how sustainable initiatives inspire innovative design concepts and the creation and use of new materials and technologies. We will connect all these issues to the guidelines for L.E.E.D.
The goal of the course is to enable designers to develop a solid rationale for making environmentally-sensitive decisions, and the basic, working knowledge of how to implement them. Students may tailor a research or creative project to their individual interests.
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