2 June 2008
Navy Yard’s Perry Building to Feature Renewable Energy Pilot Program
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The Brooklyn Navy Yard’s Perry Building will be home to art restoration firm SurroundArt once it opens up up this summer. Interiors for the 89,000-square-foot space, which is aiming for a LEED Silver under USGBC’s Core and Shell program, were designed by Steven Kratchman Architect, while the exterior of the building is being executed by Stantec. (Check out out our late posts on the Perry Building for more details on both the project and SurroundArt.) Last week, though, Stantec denoted some details on the project’s renewable energy features, which will let in a photovoltaic and wind power pilot program. The firm is partnering with Interior Grid Energy Services in order to instal a number of solar panels and wind turbines on the Perry Building’s roof. The system will- at least ab initio- serve up hardly the Perry Building and be tied to its independent electric equipment. Stantec is a publically-merchandised, 9000-employee, 125-office design firm that is presently engaged in a number of other renewable energy projects (including some big wind farms) across the U.S. Other dark-green features at the Perry Building let in an effective building envelope, arid urinals, a graywater system, and a number of recled-content construction materials. SurroundArt will compensate about $20 per straight foot for the space. The firm will finally confine space across three unlike Navy Yard buildings and make what it calls off a Museum Resource Center, subleasing a portion to at least five more tenants that likewise ply like art-interrelated services, which range from temperature-controlled storage to loading down, transportation, and exhibit design, fabrication, and installatio
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