Saratoga County’s Clifton Park-Halfmoon Public Library Earns LEED Certification
The Clifton Park-Halfmoon Public Library, scarce to the northeast of Schenectady, late cleared conventional LEED certification from USGBC. The 55,000-square-foot project was designed by architects Woodard Connor Gillies & Seleman of Albany and opened to the public back in December of 2006. NYSERDA functioned as a proficient advisor on the project, which participated in the Fresh York Energy $mart Fresh Construction Program, and looked back the projected energy-writing features of the building proposed by the design team, which admited high-pitched-efficiency windows, extra insulation, effective lighting with occupancy control, effective HVAC systems, and a digitally mastered building management system. NYSERDA bade the project team fiscal incentives both for the extra costs of the energy savings features, as good as the LEED certification process itself. While there’s no data uncommitted on how the building has done since it opened up up, NYSERDA foretold that the project would return an yearly energy savings of around 382,000 kWh and cost savings of $55,000. Other greenish features let in topically-sourced brick and recycled-content morphological steel, carpet, and countertops. In 2007, the Modern York Library Association kicked in the project its “Undischarged Modern Library” award. It’s ill-defined what level of blackleging the project has garnered; we’ll trace up with more details if we’re able-bodied to delve them up, including any confirmation of the energy savings projections referenced in the NYSERDA link infr (more…)
