JPMorgan Chase Achieves LEED Platinum Green Building Certification for NYC HQ.The article announces that JPMorgan Chase earned a Platinum rating for the renovation of its global headquarters at 270 Park Avenue in Manhattan, New York City.Kraat...
In 2009, New York became the first city to enact legislation requiring existing buildings to measure and report their energy use. Local Law 84 was part of a package of legislation intended to dramatically reduce the city’s carbon footprint. The laws “will make New York the first American c...
As you might imagine, there was a huge surge in the past few months due in large part to the roll out of LEED 2009. I've been loosely tracking the figures as they're released in the USGBC Update emails I receive intermittently for the past year or so... here's a look at the spi...
NYC Skyscraper Is First U.S. Commercial Tower to Earn LEED PlatinumJoannGoncharCAIAJoann Gonchar, AIA