Category: Educational & Informational

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…

There’s still time to join the Building Energy Masters Series – If you’re into Passive House, you’ll want to check out the inaugural Building Energy Masters Series course titled: “Passive House: The Future of Building in the US?”. The virtual class kicks off on May 14th and runs until June 18th. Why you’ll like this course: Experienced Instructors –…

In February 2010, the Green Codes Task Force, a group of leading practitioners convened by the Urban Green Council at the request of Mayor Bloomberg and Council Speaker Quinn, released a set of recommendations to amend City regulations to promote green buildings. Here we’ve covered the topic to review what’s on the table and what’s…

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…

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…

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…

As part of GreenHomeNYC’s Feature Green Building blog posts, we’re taking a closer look at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum:

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…

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…