Come Celebrate Great Service with Us!
 A reminder that our highly anticipated Summer Member Meeting with our annual Service Awards will be held next Tuesday, June 22nd, at the GE Monogram Design Center - a 4,000-sq.-ft. luxury appliance showroom complete with three kitchens, a wine-themed lounge and a host of Manhattan-inspired details. This popular event is open to members and nonmembers - but we hope you will become a new member or renew your membership today to attend for free.
Urban Green Expo Call for Educational Sessions — Proposal Deadline Extended Until July 7th
Due to the number or requests we’ve received for extensions, the Proposal Deadline for Urban Green Expo Educational Sessions has been extended until Wednesday, July 7th at 5 pm. While initial selections will be made from those proposals submitted before the original June 15th deadline, additional proposals will be considered as space allows. Download the Call for Proposals or submit a proposal today.
Summer Tours
Be sure to catch one of our upcoming summer tours:
> June 29th: Tapestry Mixed Income Housing Development
> July 6th: Battery Park City Parks Conservancy Maintenance Facility
> July 20th: Green Roof at Grand Street by Goode Green
LEED Workshop: Core Concepts and Strategies (New York, NY)
June 25th at Con Edison
Please join Urban Green Council for this official USGBC 200-level course intended for anyone who wants more than a basic understanding of LEED - including those with a stake in their company's or community's building practices, those directly involved in green building projects, and those pursuing GBCI's LEED Green Associate credential. This course will satisfy the eligibility requirement for taking the LEED Green Associate Exam. See tickets & details.
NYC Green Codes Task Force Education Series Session 1: Building a Resilient City
June 29th at Con Edison
Join Urban Green for a series of educational programs that will dig deeper into the details of some of the most important or technically challenging proposals that were released in the NYC Green Codes Task Force report. Session 1 is "Building a Resilient City": an introduction to the creation, mission and development process of the NYC Green Codes Task Force and a detailed discussion of proposals that address climate change impacts and passive survivability issues. See tickets & details.
Tour: Tapestry Mixed Income Housing Development
June 29th at Tapestry
Please join Urban Green Council for pre-occupancy tour of Tapestry, a mixed income LEED-NC project in the recently rezoned 125 Street Corridor in Harlem. Tapestry is a 12-story, 185-unit mixed-income rental apartment building pursuing LEED NC Gold. Tapestry is a NYC Housing Development Corp. Mixed-Income Housing and NYC Dept. of Housing Preservation and Development project and is receiving incentives from the NYSERDA Multifamily Performance Program. The project also meets the Enterprise Green Communities guidelines for environmental responsibility. See tickets & details.
Emerging Green Builders LEED GA Crash Course
June 30th at NYC-ACRE at NYU-Poly
The LEED Crash Course is a 3 hour lecture which uses a case study of an existing LEED certified building to help review the various points of the USGBC LEED rating system and green building core concepts. The Crash Course is intended to provide a brief overview of the LEED rating system and would be most useful to individuals preparing to take the LEED Green Associate exam. See tickets & details.
Tour: Battery Park City Parks Conservancy Maintenance Facility
July 6th at Battery Park City Parks Conservancy
Please join Urban Green Council for a tour of the Battery Park City Parks Conservancy Maintenance Facility. This new maintenance facility will centralize the Battery Part City Park’s Conservancy’s extensive maintenance activities. It will include vehicle storage, workshop spaces, composting areas, high/ low-density storage, and offices for a staff of over one hundred. See tickets & details.
1st Wednesday Technical Roundtable: Greener, Greater Buildings Plan Series: Session 3- Audits and Retro-Commissioning
July 7th at Bovis Lend Lease
This third session in the Greener, Greater Buildings series will address the audits and retro-commissioning bill. The legislation requires large buildings to perform both an ASHRAE level 2 audit and a retro-commissioning study once every ten years. The studies apply to central (base building) systems and equipment maintained by the owner; tenant spaces are exempt. Panel speakers will review the policy intent; discuss how the legislation will be implemented, including to whom it applies and how compliance will be phased; provide information on the level of analysis and types of contractor certifications needed; discuss strategies for implementing commissioning; and explore the ways in which study results can be used to plan investments in efficiency. See tickets & details.
Tour: Green Roof at Grand Street
July 20th at Battery Park City Parks Conservancy
When Chris and Lisa Goode acquired a six story commercial building in the heart of Little Italy in 2002, the goal was to develop the building and build a rooftop residence with a large outdoor space. As the Goodes started to design the space, a green roof presented itself as the optimum installation for comprehensive rooftop garden design. At the time, there was little information on green roofs and the Goodes did their own research and tests. As the general contractors for the development of the building, they took on the green roof installation as another element. The result is an expansive and diverse 6,000 square foot garden installed in 2005. See tickets & details.
AIA Releases Tracking Tool For Sustainable Design
Theses on Sustainability
Blue Sky Thinking
Building Brooklyn Bridge Park: An Interview with Matthew Urbanski
Green on the Inside
Sustainability Toolkit: Economic Models
It’s Alive! How Closely Can a Building Emulate Nature?
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