Green Roof Initiative Nyc

The day before earth day the new york city council passed a historic act that will turn the city green literally.

Green roof initiative nyc. Peck grp honorary asla founder and president green roofs for healthy cities. The idea comes as part of bloomberg s planyc goal of making. He just announced a campaign to install green roofs sidewalks and porous parking lots in order to capture excess rainwater and runoff. Through the governor s consolidated funding application cfa process the green innovation grant program gigp supports projects across new york state that utilize unique stormwater infrastructure design and create cutting edge green technologies.

The nyc green roof researchers alliance is supported by the new york community trust. An applicant s professional designee must certify that the installation meets design and other requirements under all applicable laws rules and codes. Nyc audubon s green roof efforts were spotlighted in their 2018 annual report. New york ny the new york city department of buildings dob announced that effective today local law 92 of 2019 and local law 94 of 2019 require all new buildings and existing buildings undergoing certain major roof renovations to have a solar photovoltaic system a green roof system or a combination of the two.

More recently the new york city council passed a suite of measures to reduce greenhouse gases including a requirement for green roofs solar panels or a combination of both on newly constructed. You can view the publication at. Nyc parks maintains more than 200 000 square feet of green roofs across the city. Green roof property tax abatement new york city offers property tax abatements to property owners that install solar green roofs on their buildings.

The luxury condominium at 200 east 21st street in gramercy is the latest green project from alfa development. For the past two years green roofs for healthy cities has been advocating for new measures to grow the green roof market in new york city and we are very pleased with the passage of this new legislation said steven w. The 20 story 67 unit building has high performance glass to reduce solar gain.