Design + Construction ExCELLENCE Sustainable New York ImpLEmENTING SUSTAINABLE DESIGN IN THE CITY’S pUBLIC works BOROUGH LOCATION BOROUGH I SUSTAINABLE NEW YORK NEW SUSTAINABLE 2007 Queens Botanical Garden Sustainable New York BKSK Architects The 15,000-square-foot Visitor and Administration Center at the Queens Botanical Garden embraces sustainability by combining numerous significant green elements into Dear Friends: the building’s design. These traits include a graywater system, a geothermal heating and cooling system, photovoltaic panels, a cleansing biotope for stormwater, Since its creation in 1996, the New York City Department of Design and Construction (DDC) and a publicly accessible green roof. The building is has been a leader in designing and constructing environmentally responsible public works, certified LEED Platinum, the highest rating from the U.S. creating a capital construction program that is at the forefront of sustainable design. Green Building Council. In 2004, DDC launched the Design + Construction Excellence (D+CE) initiative, a multi- agency effort to improve design by adopting new procurement methods to emphasize quality in the selection process. Sustainable design is an integral part of the program, which encourages City agencies to pursue green practices in all their public works projects. The results of D+CE and the Department’s efforts to promote greater environmental responsibility in building design are highlighted on the following pages of this report. Three years later, our Administration created plaNYC, a comprehensive plan to create a sustainable future for our City. As we continue to work toward our vision of a greener, greater New York, public projects play an important role in helping the City reduce its carbon footprint. Given that buildings account for more than 80 percent of all municipal greenhouse gas emissions, constructing buildings with energy-efficient features is essential to reducing those emissions, and DDC plays a critically important role in that work. Every day, DDC demonstrates that sustainable building practices are not only environmentally responsible but also make for excellence in design. If you would like more information on our public works projects, please call 311 or visit www.nyc.gov. Sincerely, ENT OF DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION AND DESIGN OF ENT m ART p BOROUGH LOCATION BOROUGH michael R. Bloomberg David J. Burney, FAIA DE mayor Commissioner II 1 SUSTAINABLE NEW YORK NEW SUSTAINABLE YORK NEW SUSTAINABLE Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS 4 Sustainable Strategies SYmbol GUIDE 5 Measuring Sustainable Success 6 sustainable strategies 14 sustainable programS 18 sustainable education 2 0 sustainable Projects mANHATTAN 22 ACS CHILDREN’S CENTER Dattner Architects BROOKLYN 2 4 WILLIAmsburg CHILD CARE CENTER Herbert Beckhard Frank Richlan & Associates QUEENS 26 New YORK HALL OF SCIENCE Polshek partnership Architects, LLp Bronx 30 Bronx County HALL OF Justice Rafael Viñoly Architects BROOKLYN 34 OFFICE OF Emergency ManagemENT Swanke Hayden Connell Architects Staten ISLAND 38 Staten ISLAND ZOO REpTILE House Gruzen Samton Architects Bronx 42 Bronx ZOO LION House FxFOWLE Architects, pC Brooklyn 48 Brooklyn CHILDREN’S Museum Rafael Viñoly Architects ENT OF DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION AND DESIGN OF ENT ENT OF DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION AND DESIGN OF ENT m BRooklyn 52 ENGINE COmpANY 277 m ART STV INC. ART p p DE Bronx 54 Rescue COmpANY 3 DE Polshek partnership Architects, LLp BRONx 56 DHS FAmily CENTER 2 Polshek partnership Architects, LLp 3 queens 58 SUNRISE YARD Gruzen Samton Architects QUEENS 62 CHILDREN’S Library Discovery CENTER, QUEENS Central Library 1100: Architect pC, Lee H Skolnick Architecture + Design partnership Brooklyn 66 Kensington Branch Library Sen Architects Brooklyn 68 REmSEN YARD Kiss + Cathcart, Architects pC brooklyn 7 0 Weeksville Heritage CENTER Education AND Cultural Arts BUILDING Caples Jefferson Architects SUSTAINABLE NEW YORK NEW SUSTAINABLE SUSTAINABLE NEW YORK NEW SUSTAINABLE QUEENS 76 GLEN Oaks Library Marble Fairbanks StaTEN ISLAND 78 Mariners Harbor Branch Library Atelier pagnamenta Torriani Architects planners LLp StaTEN ISLAND 82 121 pOLICE Precinct Station House Rafael Viñoly Architects StaTEN ISLAND 84 STATEN ISLAND ANImAL CARE CENTER Garrison Architects BRONx 86 Public safety Answering CENTER II Skidmore, Owings & merrill, LLp queens 90 New YORK pOLICE AcademY Perkins + Will with michael Fieldman Architect 9 2 TImELINE 94 CREDITS Sustainable Strategies Symbol Guide Sustainable Highlights The projects shown on the following pages lights. Features such as well-insulated SYMBOL GUIDE The measurement of costs and detail many of the sustainable strategies building exteriors, high-efficiency heating benefits is crucial to the success % % % promoted through PlaNYC as well as and cooling equipment, and ground-source s Sustainable SITE of DDC's sustainable design and L 95 L 70 L 99 through the Department of Design and geothermal heat pumps all reduce the construction program. Though Bronx County Hall Bronx Zoo Lion House Brooklyn Children’s Construction’s own green initiatives. Each energy required to condition a building’s w WATER EFFICIENCY qualitative benefits, such as of Justice The building is expected to Museum project page contains icons — defined air. many projects also benefit from a occupant health, happiness Reaches 95% of the save 70% in energy costs The project incorporated below — that note which sustainable citywide renewable energy credit purchase, e ENERGY efficiency and well-being, cannot be easily occupied interior spaces. with mechanical features 99% of the existing categories DDC feels are most strongly and some incorporate photovoltaics assigned a value, many other mATERIALS & RESOURCES such as a geothermal building’s structure into represented by the project. Additional for on-site generation of electricity. m important benefits can be system, fuel cells, and high- the new building design. icons are placed on the appropriate project clearly and accurately expressed HEALTHY INTERIORS tech, adjustable skylights. pages to signify the sustainable law or Materials and Resources i numerically, such as energy cost policy for which the program qualifies. To minimize the environmental impact of savings, water-use reduction % materials demands, DDC adapts existing and waste diversion. metrics are L 100 % Sustainable Site structures and requires more sustainable used at all stages of our projects PlaNYC pLANYC INITIATIVES DHS Family Center % L 78 many DDC project sites are designed construction materials on all of our to determine which proposed 100% of employees have B 50 Kensington Branch Library to maximize trees, vegetation, and projects. We promote the use of recycled LOCAL sustainable features generate LAW 86 LOCAL LAW 86 access to lighting controls for Glen Oaks Library Daylight is designed to reach landscape features that cool the City, and rapidly renewable content in concrete, the most environmental rewards individual and shared spaces. The project expects to 78% of the occupied interior control stormwater, cleanse the air, and insulation, carpet and other materials, LEED and whether they are cost- PLATINUM LEED pLATINUm achieve a 50% reduction spaces through skylights in a give people a sense of well-being. Water- and enforce low-toxicity standards. When effective to implement. Over in energy costs through central atrium and the north- efficient landscaping is incorporated disposing of materials, a construction and LEED the last decade, our project GOLD LEED GOLD radiant heating and cooling facing curtain wall. to conserve potable water, and native demolition (C&D) waste management plan metrics have demonstrated that % measures and bringing species are planted to promote biological is required — typically diverting anywhere LEED a sustainable design philosophy SILVER LEED SILVER B 41 daylight into every room, diversity. In addition, paved areas and from 50 to 80% of waste from entering yields tangible results, which New York Hall of Science including below-grade roofs are constructed of light-colored and landfills. This is especially significant have given it legitimacy and The new exhibition wing interior space. % reflective materials to minimize heat gain in New York City, where waste from helped establish the basis for a uses 41% less energy than B 100 in summer, and environmentally preferable C&D sites comprises more than 60% broader initiative within the City. EASURING SUSTAINABLE SUCCESS SUSTAINABLE EASURING the New York State Energy Queens Botanical Garden m landscaping materials are specified. of the municipal solid waste stream. The percentages below Conservation Construction All storm water runoff is HIGHLIGHTS HIGHLIGHTS During construction, site disturbance is highlight the sustainable Code minimum. % cleansed and retained, minimized in order to protect existing trees Healthy Interiors achievements of DDC projects. B 33 reducing overload on the 4 and vegetation and to prevent erosion. Since most people spend the majority of In the case of energy and water, Office of Emergency city’s combined sewer 5 their time indoors, DDC strives to create calculations were made by Management system. Water Efficiency healthy interiors. protecting ventilation comparing the proposed building % The building uses 33% less DDC projects reduce water consumption systems during construction and flushing design with that of a baseline L 30 potable water than industry through the careful selection of low-flow out the building before occupancy ensure