Sat, April 26th – Pratt CE & NYC Google + Sustainable Tech Tour/Networking @ Bright ‘n Green

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Google + NYC Sustainable Tech Meetup & Pratt CE : Tour of Bright’n Green Property – The sustainable, Passive House residential apartment building built by Scarano Architects of Brooklyn, NY.

Built to a higher standard to last
• Constructed & finished with all non-toxic materials
• Air scrubbed clean of contaminants and particulates
• Uses ambient earth temperature to pre- conditioned fresh clean air
• Constantly ventilated throughout the day and night
• Site remediated of all contaminants

An end to energy bills
• No gas in the building equals no carbon emissions
• Net zero energy balance with the grid
• No rate hike or energy embargo worries
• Domestic hot water heated by the sun & earth

Living sustainably
• Reclaimed rainwater – avoid excessive runoff to municipal system
• Avoid dumping 30 tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year
• Saving more than 750 trees every year

Passive House is a European standard of building design that achieves a 90{7330b322b9b7d58bddbbaef66cde22ad1f12db8c79c6d80901517aa2b253a342} energy reduction for projects that comply and are certified by their energy modeling called “PHPP”.

Any building can be made to comply, from a one family house to a 500 unit apartment building and the standards, while rigorous, are quite simply based. Basically you build a super insulated building envelope like a thermos or cooler and then make it air tight that way whatever heat or cooling you put in it stays in it. It’s like putting a balloon around a thermos – it creates a vacuum that prevents the transfer of heating or cooling by conduction or convection.

Read More…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_house