It is not hard to find a green building in New York City. Thanks to a city-sponsored ... the Eric Dutt Eco-Center is located on the roof of PS. 6, providing insulation for the school below and ...

The Woolworth Building is an iconic, 106-year-old New York City skyscraper. The 58-story downtown Manhattan tower was the world's tallest building from its completion in 1913 to 1930. After a five ...

New York's roughly 1 million buildings and more than 6,000 miles of asphalt roads contribute to the urban heat island effect as well as runoff resulting from impermeable surfaces. Green roofs are ...

Bringing in a solar team too late in the renovation process can lead to a range of costly and frustrating issues.

Yet green roofs cover less than 0.1% of New York City's 1 million buildings, according to a new analysis. Published in Ecology and Society, the paper provides the first comprehensive dataset of ...

It takes large cities like New York to implement aggressive ... Development to study the potential impact of green roofs on the affordability of buildings. Levin’s bill would increase the ...

Out of more than 1 million buildings in New York City, they could identify only 736 with green roofs, less than 0.1% of the total, although they noted there could be others they hadn't been able ...

The developer of 250 Hudson Streetin New York just spent three million ... and started designing their buildings with green roofs in mind, turning them into an architectural feature, sometimes ...

According to Green Roofs NYC, these plant-covered spaces can cut ... A cool roof (often a white roof) uses a highly reflective building material to reflect instead of absorb the sunlight that ...

Chatfield Green Roofing is excited to be exhibiting at the LL97 Compliance: NYC Accelerator Service Provider Expo on June 17, ...

The benefits of white and green roofs ... recent study by two top NYC universities has shed light on just how effective these non-traditional roofs can be at lowering building temperatures.