Tag: Affordable Housing
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Join us for our Annual Fall Green Buildings Open-House!
GreenHomeNYC INVITES YOU TO OUR ANNUAL FALL GREEN BUILDINGS OPEN-HOUSE!!! The tours are an opportunity to visit a varied collection of buildings and green sites to learn about the energy efficient and sustainable building methods directly from building professionals such as the architect, engineer, developer or owner. You’ll experience firsthand the inner workings and design…
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The Green Spotlight on BE NYC: Samantha Schoenberger
Countdown to BE NYC! With onlydays until the conference, GreenHomeNYC is shining the spotlight on the experts who will be making the BE NYC an exceptional industry event! One of the professionals participating in the conference is Samantha Schoenberger. Ms. Schoenberger, LEED AP, BPI MFBA, is the Real Estate Facilities Manager for Selfhelp Community Services. An…
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The Green Spotlight on BE NYC: Josh Lehman
Countdown to BE NYC! With only days until the conference, GreenHomeNYC is shining the spotlight on the experts who will be making the BE NYC an exceptional industry event! One of the professionals participating in the conference is Josh Lehman. Josh Lehman, Program Manager at WinnCompanies, an environmentally-focused real estate development and management…
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The Green Spotlight: Tom Sahagian
Tom Sahagian has been the Senior Program Director, Technical Services at Enterprise Community Partners, a national nonprofit in the community development and affordable housing field, for about a year. At Enterprise, he helps to implement PartnerPREP (Partner Portfolio Retrofit Engagement Platform), which helps owners and managers of affordable housing to become effective energy stewards…
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February Forum – Melrose Commons North: Design Innovations in Green Affordable Housing
Discussion of the design innovations in the three Melrose Commons North projects, which will be built on the last reminaing large City-owned underutilized sites in the area: Ted Weinstein, HPD; Karen Hu, Phipps Houses and Bill Stein, Dattner Architects; Magnus Magnusson and Fernando Villa, Magnusson Architecture & Planning; Nancy Biberman, WHEDCo, and Guido Hartray of…
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September forum: The Greening of Newark, NJ
Jak Inglese, AIA, PE, LEED AP and founder of Inglese Architecture and Engineering, Dr. Ana Baptista, Director of Environmental & Planning Projects of the Ironbound Community Corp., Ralph Walker, of Gensler and Lee Stronstorff, of the Greater Newark Conservancy
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Green Building Tour of Gen. Colin Powell Apartments
On Saturday April 24th, join GreenHomeNYC on a tour of the Gen. Colin Powell Apartments, a new green affordable residential coop building in The Bronx. We’re grateful to Les Bluestone and Blue Sea Development Company for hosting the tour. Come and hear about an array of green features, including an extensive green roof, high efficiency…
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Retrofitting Existing Affordable Housing
Here are three questions from a student at Rutgers who was working on a paper about the costs, benefits, and barriers of retrofitting affordable housing to improve energy efficiency: Are the tenants of green affordable homes seeing true savings? Are they increasing awareness about other environmental issues to communities that normally wouldn’t? How are policies…
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January 2008: High Performance Affordable Housing: New Developments
With Mark Zimet, the Director of Development for Dunn Development Corp.; Les Bluestone, Blue Sea Development Company; Sam Marks Deutsche Bank’s Community Development Finance Group; and GreenHomeNYC board member Andy Padian.
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Financing Green Buildings, Part II – January 19, 2005
When: Wednesday, January 19, 2005, 6:30pm to 8pm Where: Hafele Showroom–Madison Park (25 E. 26th St.) Many thanks to our speakers, Lydia Tom from Enterprise New York and Jill Edwards from Merrill Lynch Community Development Company, and our hosts at Hafele Showroom, for making this forum possible. Learn more about Enterprise’s Green Initiatives. Lydia Tom…