Author: admin
-
GreenHomeNYC’s Spring 2012 Multifamily Building Analyst Training & BPI Exam Starts May 24th!
2012 Spring Session: Evening Multifamily Building Analyst Classes: 10 Thursday Evening Sessions, 6 – 9 PM May 24th – July 26th Get the BPI Certification you need, and still get to work! If you are an energy professional working in multifamily buildings or just want to learn more about energy audits in multifamily buildings, this is the certification…
-
Celebrate Earth Day with GreenHomeNYC and Green Festival
GreenHomeNYC is a Nonprofit Ally for the 10th Annual Green Festival – a large, informative and festive sustainability event taking place April 21-22. GreenHomeNYC will there promoting our upcoming Top Green Building Tips videos currently in production and scheduled for release early this summer. When: Saturday April 21st, 2012 10am-7pm; Sunday April 22nd, 2012 11am-6pm…
-
NY City & State Policy Update – April 2012
At the end of March the City Planning Commission unanimously approved the Zone Green Text Amendment to remove zoning rules which can limit green building technologies in the City. The amendment now moves on to the City Council. Also in late March the Bloomberg administration submitted a memo of opposition regarding the NY State Senate’s…
-
April Forum: The Hit List – The Top Tips to Green NYC Buildings
Are you a homeowner, commercial property owner or property manager concerned with increasing energy costs? Are you a contractor, architect, interior designer or real estate broker whose clients have asked about green buildings? Do you plan to renovate, buy or develop a building? Come hear The Top 10 Tips to make NYC Buildings Greener! Learn ways you could improve your building investments, prevent the loss of energy and…
-
Announcing UAGC and GreenHomeNYC’s Energy Efficient Building Operator Classes!
GreenHomeNYC and the Urban Assembly for Green Careers Want to Cut Your Building’s Energy and Water Bills by up to 40%. If you are a building owner, manager, coop/condo member, super, bookkeeper/comptroller, or just want to learn how multifamily buildings use and waste energy and water, you need to take the Energy Efficient Building Operator…
-
Introducing GreenHomeNYC’s Featured Green Buildings blog posts!
GreenHomeNYC’s Featured Green Buildings blog posts take a closer look at the structures listed within the GHNYC New York Green Building Database. Each write-up investigates a sustainable feature or notable attribute of a particular green building found here in New York. The Featured Green Building posts and the New York Green Building Database work together to increase knowledge and awareness of…
-
NESEA’s BE12 is Next Week!
It’s almost time for NESEA’s BuidingEnergy – the most established and most cross-disciplinary renewable energy and high performance building conference in the region, March 6-8 at the Boston Seaport World Trade Center, http://www.nesea.org/be12/ With an expected 4,000 attendees, this year’s BuildingEnergy has an impressive contingency of people from our state participating in the conference’s 80 accredited educational…
-
GreenHomeNYC Volunteers Participate in Home Energy Audit
GreenHomeNYC volunteers got an exciting opportunity to learn about energy audits by participating in a home energy audit demonstration by members of Power Concepts’ Energy Division. The group preformed an ASHRAE level-one audit on a four-story Brownstone in Park Slope. While GreenHomeNYC does NOT offer energy audits, this was an excellent opportunity for our volunteer…
-
Via Verde — A new model for green, affordable housing?
Via Verde is a new mixed income, mixed use residential project in the South Bronx. It’s name, Spanish for “the green way” captures the ethos of its design and the philosophy being handed over to residents, moving in this winter. At the heart of the project is a dynamic garden and series of green roofs…
-
February Forum: Green Careers
Join us in an exploration of Green Careers at this month’s upcoming forum. We’ll be hearing about making the transition into a green career, two different training programs, and a variety of green careers from corporate sustainability management to solar panel installation and renewable energy. This will be a great forum for anyone interested in…