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Green building

Inside the Urban Future Lab, the company's Metrotech home.

Radiator Lock Boxes Slash One-Fifth Off Two Old Buildings’ Heating Costs

Something new in tech: third-party verification.
By Brady Dale
The open living and dining space spans 1,200 square feet. (Corcoran Group)

Eco-Friendly Nolita: A New Condo With Traditional Exterior and Fashionable Design

199 Mott Street, a new condo building in Nolita, has a traditional exterior with au courant design details
By Morgan Halberg
Veronica Mainetti, President of The Sorgente Group of America

She’s Green to the Extreme

“I think of myself as a canary in the coal mine,” said Veronica Mainetti, the unlikely real estate scion of owner and developer The Sorgente Group of America. The 36-year-old design school graduate was born in Rome, where her firm, which is on its fifth generation of Mainetti rule, is based. When she was 1 and a half years old, she was diagnosed with epilepsy. Years later, after she had moved to New York and begun scouting properties and developments for her family to invest in, she began connecting the frequency of her seizures to her environment.
By Guelda Voien
Arbor House, a 124-unit affordable housing complex in the Bronx, embraced green building practices.

An Arbor In the Forest: Green Affordable Housing Development Opens In the Bronx

By Kim Velsey
The rendering. (Chris Benedict, via Curbed)

Passive But Pushy: Eco-Conscious Houses Popping Up All Over Brooklyn

By Kim Velsey

The Class Is Always Greener: Columbia’s Manhattanville Campus Earns Top Sustainabilty Grade

By Matt Chaban

Eco-Conscious Passive Houses Aggressively Hit Brooklyn

By Kim Velsey

Good House Keeping! Hearst Tower Achieves Highest Green Building Rating, LEED Platinum

By Matt Chaban

Another Glass House, Err, Office, for the High Line

By Matt Chaban

Saving the Environment, One Zoning Amendment at a Time

By Matt Chaban
Mr. Black was working for Reckson Associates when it was acquired by SL Green in 2007. (Credit: Jackie Snow)

SL Green’s Jason Black Is Commercial Real Estate’s Al Gore

By Jotham Sederstrom

Air China Lands at Empire State Building

By Matt Chaban

How Soon Can You See Green From Building Green?

By Eugene Gilligan

Op-Ed: Bottom-Line Benefits of Building Green

By Douglas Durst

The Cousins Durst

By Jotham Sederstrom

Global Sustainability and the Class of 2009

By Steve Cohen

New York Lags Several Cities in Certified Green Buildings–Surprising, Right?

By Eliot Brown

Going Green For the Green

By Lydia DePillis

‘Boring Crap’ That Can Make Affordable Housing Greener

By Lydia DePillis

Recession or Not, Green Building to Keep Growing

By Lydia DePillis

New York Has 10 Olympic Pools’ Worth of Green Roofs

By Tom Acitelli

Are Green Buildings the New Central Air?

By Eliot Brown

In The Shadow of Atlantic Yards

By Matthew Schuerman
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