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A LEED for Neighborhood Development Pilot Project- one of 238 such projects in 39 states and D.C. and six countries- stony-broke ground last Tuesday in Stamford, Connecticut. The mixed-use Metro Green will admit 238 units of rental and condominium apartments, including 50 low-priced housing units which form Phase I of the project. Jonathan Rose Companies has teamed up up with W&M Properties for the residential component, which  severally will search LEED Gold under Modern Construction. Designer Perkins Eastman Architects comprised dark-green features on the residential component such as the at present-stock energy-effective mechanically skillful components and low-toned-VOC ceases, case-by-case heating and chilling units, as good as a building envelope that haves a deoxidized heat-island effect roof and high-pitched-performance spray-on cellulose insulation Metro Green will as well admit a water gleaning system to be used for irrigation and in laundering machines (after filtration, of course). In addition, the development site sits within the city’s Enterprise Zone, situated at the Stamford Transportation Center, which will likewise be the site of a 17-story, 350,000-square-foot commercial-grade tower, slated for LEED Platinum under Core and Shell. The site will as well let in a newfangled public plaza and newfangled trees along Henry and Atlantic Streets. The LEED for Neighborhood Development Pilot Program is aimed at bringing down urban sprawl, fitter living through taking the air or else of tuging, farther reduction in car use through the use of approachable transporation options, and the use of sites that do not encroach on the innate habita

t. Connecticut’s other LEED-ND projects let in 745 Chapel Street in Modern Haven, Georgetown Land Development in Georgetown, Harbor Point in Stamford, Simsbury River Oaks in Simsbury, and Storrs Center in Mansfield. Modern York has nine such projects, including Columbia University’s projected, controversial Manhattanville expansion. Modern Jersey has five, including one in Newark and one in Elizabeth. You can access USGBC’s list of all 238 projects via this link [1]. USGBC is no longer going for applications for raw projects, but the good program is awaited to locomote be next year. More information is uncommitted from USGBC hither [2]. LEED-ND Archive [3] (gbNYC)  Columbia’s Manhattanville Expansion to Take part in LEED-ND [4] (gbNYC) ML is unretentive for our hebdomadary Monday LEEDoff™ column, which typically profiles a dissimilar LEED project in general in (but not restricted to) the Newfangled York City area. You can access an archive of profiled projects via this link [5].ShareThis [6] [1] http://www.usgbc.org/ShowFile.aspx?DocumentID=3546 [2] http://www.usgbc.org/DisplayPage.aspx?CMSPageID=148 [3] http://www.greenbuildingsnyc.com/tag/leed-nd/ [4] http://www.greenbuildingsnyc.com/2007/06/15/columbias-manhattanville-expansion-to-enter-in-leed-nd-pilot-program/ [5] http://www.greenbuildingsnyc.com/category/monday-leedoff/ [6] http://sharethis.com/item?publisher=6a37c728-bfb2-4757-b4cc-d22d71cc8f51&title=ML%3A+Rose+Companies%26%238217%3B+Metro+Green+Breaks+Ground+in+Stamford&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.greenbuildingsNYC.com%2F2008%2F06%2F09%2Fml-rose-companies-metro-light-green-breaks-ground-in-stamford%2F
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