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HEADLINES ADDED: July 03, 2009
Welcome to the New gbNYC!
Welcome to the new greenbuildingsNYC! I'm thrilled to be unveiling the new site to you today thanks to the incredible effort of our web developer partners, Engine Industries, and real estate partners Elegran Real Estate & Development Services. This relaunch has been a long and difficult climb and I can't thank Engine and Elegran enough for all of their hard work. Rather than diving straight back into new content, I thought we'd take a couple of days to introduce you to the new features of the site; I hope you'll bear... Read More
Lean & 5 S's #47
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International Green Construction Code (IGCC) Now in the Works
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The Top 250 Architecture Firms
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Defining the Future of the Worldwide Construction Market
e-Builder and FMI will co-host a one-hour webinar on Thursday, July 16, 2009. The webinar, titled “Inflection Point - Defining the Future of the Worldwide Construction Market”, will discuss how FMI has begun taking a formal look at the industry’s current inflection point through scenario planning - the development of a series of scenarios that describe potential futures for the construction industry. This session is part of e-Builder’s monthly executive webinar series. Webinar participants will learn how the potential implications of each scenario will rock the foundations of architects,... Read More
Daniel Libeskind Leaps Into Prefab Market: Other A-List Architects to Follow?
You may have read about Daniel Libeskind's 5500-square-foot prefabricated home when it was unveiled a few weeks ago, but I thought it was important for us to mention the design here at gbNYC briefly before we head into the holiday weekend. Mr. Libeskind is calling the two-story house "unprecedented;" its price tag, for prefab, certainly is: $2.8 to $4.2 million depending on where the house is installed. The house will be manufactured mostly from wood with an aluminum exterior cladding and draw some of its power from a solar... Read More
May Construction Spending Lowest in 5 Years
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Construction Officials Hope To Prevent the Worst as Unemployment Rises
Associated General Contractors of America CEO Stephen Sandherr urges Congress to continue investing and move on with its infrastructure stimulus plan before it’s too late.... Read More
HEADLINES ADDED: July 02, 2009
Geochemistry Building at Columbia Earns Trio of Awards for Green Design
Columbia University's new Gary C. Comer Geochemistry Building at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York recently earned three separate design awards: R&D Magazine's 2009 Lab of the Year, a 2009 Sustainable Design Award from EPA and the Boston Society of Architects, and an Excellence in Architecture in a New Building from AIA and the Society for College and University Planning. Each of the awards were given to Boston-based architects Payette, which designed the 63,000-square-foot structure. The building is named for the late Lands End founder Gary Comer,... Read More
Old Stone Highway House by Berg Design Architects in East Hampton
If you were fortunate enough to spend the Memorial Day holiday out in the Hamptons, one sight you might have missed is the Old Stone Highway House in East Hampton. Completed back in July of 2007 by New York City-based Berg Design Architects, the 2200-square-foot house's architectural program is a "modern interpretation of the Long Island agricultural vernacular" that simultaneously "incorporates the use of environmentally low-impact building technology." Berg's client sought a design that both suggested a Long Island barn where the client had summered and incorporated green building... Read More
Construction on Green Rentals at 200 West 72nd Street Moving Forward
Check out a few construction progress photos we snapped over the holiday weekend of Handel Architects' 200 West 72nd Street, which is slated to bring 196 luxury green rental apartments to the Upper West Side later on this year. The $200 million, 19-story project is seeking LEED Silver certification and will also feature 48,000 square feet of retail space across the tower's lower five floors, (17,000 of which is still available). Back in 2005, local preservationists failed in their efforts to landmark the Henry Kilburn-designed Colonial Club, which dated... Read More
Gotham's First Green Pizzeria to Open Ovens at 132 East 56th Street
Owner-chef Edward Sylvia is planning on transforming a former Quiznos space at 132 East 56th Street (between Lexington and Park Avenues) into New York City's first green pizza parlor. Pizza by Certé should be open for business sometime this fall and offer locally-sourced ingredients, recyclable boxes, biodegradable utensils, and even thyme and basil grown within the 1200-square-foot restaurant itself. Pizza by Certé intends to seek an unspecified level of LEED certification and will incorporate green design features ranging from a graywater system to efficient baking ovens that will capture... Read More
Konyk Architecture's Prefab Hydra House Concept
Designed by Craig Konyk of Brooklyn-based Konyk Architecture, the Hydra House was completed some time ago for a design competition that sought a concept for a twenty-square-foot parcel of land in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Konyk's striking submission contemplates a single-room structure with bold red neoprene rubber walls that would serve as a retirement home for the senior citizen that frequents Atlantic City's casinos and other attractions. The Hydra House's bed, kitchen, storage, and even shower fold up into the side of one wall like a Murphy bed, creating... Read More
The Visionaire: New York City's First LEED Platinum-Certified Condominiums
The Albanese Organization’s Visionaire in Battery Park City earned formal LEED Platinum certification from USGBC yesterday. The 33-story, 500,000-square-foot condominium is the first LEED Platinum set of condos in New York City, and joins Albanese’s 26-story Verdesian rental building, which is also certified Platinum and similarly located in Battery Park City. The 251-unit tower was designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli and features a building-integrated photovoltaic system that provides 48 kW of electricity, while 35 percent of the building’s electric load will be sourced from Green-e certified renewable energy sources.... Read More
515 Madison Avenue Pursues LEED-EB, Inks Trio of Tenants
Thanks, perhaps, to a $5 million facelift and LEED-EBOM application, 515 Madison Avenue (at East 53rd Street) has been a recent bright spot in an otherwise unspectacular Manhattan commercial real estate market thus far in 2009. Recently, three deals were finalized at the 42-story tower: (1) a 22,300-square-foot, 15-year lease at $65 per square foot on the building's fourth and fifth floors for the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; (2) a 9100-square-foot, 10-year lease for communications company Kreab & Gavin Anderson Worldwide, which will take the entire 18th floor at... Read More
Expanded, Green Mandell School Set for Columbus Square on Upper West Side
Aragon Construction is set to begin work on a new home for the Mandell School at the Chetrit Group's Columbus Square development on the Upper West Side early next year. The 50,000-square-foot school will accommodate up to 650 students through the eighth grade and occupy Columbus Square's entire second floor, as well as parts of the ground floor and basement. The school was designed by New York City-based J.R.S. Architects, Inc. and, although it's unclear whether the project will formally obtain LEED certification, it has been designed with a... Read More
Being a Leader in a Construction Firm
The era of leadership is past its peak. The surge has worked and we now have a very settled definition of leadership. There is little mystery of the right approach to leading a combat brigade, a religious organization or a construction firm. We have filtered through many significant works from some very accomplished men and women. Each of who have proven leadership skills and have written their approach to it. They have contributed to our management thinking in a great way. It was the missing link to improving productivity,... Read More
The Best Industry in the United States
My child is in college. She is starting to ask about industries and careers. Olivia has made me think further about what construction contracting has to offer her. I have concluded it is the best career a young person could choose. You may not believe it, but the facts will show our business is unmatched. It offers participants long term tangible benefits. However, many people will argue that point. Let me show you the many virtues our industry has. You be the judge. The Industry is Not Going Away... Read More
Mick Vinckier Helps Airport Striper
National Pavement Expo does work to bring in the best of the best pavement maintenance speakers each year, and we know we get the right folks because they work year ’round for us. It’s the rare speaker who doesn’t field phone calls throughout the year from contractors who attended an NPE session, and our speakers step up and help these folks out every time. Mick Vinckier, one of NPE’s premier speakers on pavement marking, has always happily fielded these types of calls, but a couple weeks back he went... Read More
Construction marketing: Universal laws and local rules
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HEADLINES ADDED: June 29, 2009
14 Maple Avenue Features Country's Largest Biowall, Seeks New Jersey's Third LEED Platinum Rating
Developed jointly by the Morristown Parking Authority and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, 14 Maple Avenue in Morristown, New Jersey is on track to become New Jersey’s third LEED Platinum-certified building. We noted the the four-story, 40,000-square-foot project briefly here at gbNYC last fall and thought we’d check back in after it opened up just a couple of weeks ago. Designed by Lambertville, New Jersey-based Minno & Wasko Architects, the project applied for 11 credits under LEED’s Sustainable Sites category, 4 in Water Efficiency, 13 in Energy and Atmosphere,... Read More
New gbNYC to Launch on Monday, June 15
On Monday, June 15, we'll be launching a major overhaul to gbNYC. One of the most important and exciting new features we'll be introducing is a comprehensive set of residential and commercial real estate listings for green buildings across the New York City area. You'll also be able to register for the site and submit events, press releases, and products, as well as connect with other readers through our new social network. We're tremendously excited about the new gbNYC and can't wait to unveil the site to you next... Read More
Construction Estimating Software Study
Go to any national convention and you can't miss seeing dozens of software vendors. It is a big business and there is high value to construction firms. The product has made estimating a less clerical and more automated. Also, it has made estimating more efficient. Due to its power, counting and measuring is less of a task; taking hours instead of days. For those of us who don't looking forward to the job of estimating, computers and software has made it bearable. We feel that most estimating software is... Read More
Reed Construction Data economist sees recovery in the next year
Recovery from the recession will stretch out longer than most would like, but there is improvement on the horizon, says CanaData’s chief economist. Construction costs and prices will begin to pick up because commodity prices and the market will be picking up within a year.... Read More
Contractor gets a homegrown lesson in LEED
Dan Bulley, executive director of the green construction institute, was unprepared for coordinating the construction of the LEED certified headquarters of the Chicago Mechanical Contractors Association. Bulley's experience prompted him to write a booklet offering tips on working with LEED from an owner’s perspective.... Read More
Inter-American Development bank is a key tool for Canadian companies
Canadian companies looking to capitalize on construction opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean have the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) as a key tool at their disposal. The bank has approved a total of $170 billion in loans and guarantees to finance projects as of the end of 2008.... Read More
Contractor gets a homegrown lesson in LEED
Dan Bulley, executive director of the green construction institute, was unprepared for coordinating the construction of the LEED certified headquarters of the Chicago Mechanical Contractors Association. Bulley's experience prompted him to write a booklet offering tips on working with LEED from an owner’s perspective.... Read More
HEADLINES ADDED: June 26, 2009
British Columbia Supreme Court rules market recovery funds were collected improperly
British Columbia’s open shop construction association and an electrical workers union can’t agree on what a B.C. Supreme Court ruling on market recovery dues really means.... Read More
Home Building's False Optimism
During the recent Builders' Show in Las Vegas, everybody commented on how the crowds weren't as small as they expected. NAHB announced attendance w...... Read More
Home Building and the Stimulus Package
NAHB has done a great job of disseminating information about potential opportunities for home builders and remodelers as a result of the stimulus p...... Read More
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