Design Different - Center for Architecture - Buildings=Energy

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Front window - NYC Electricity & Gas use from Buildings

"Understanding energy use and how to change it, is an enormous challenge to the buildings construction and maintenance industries..." 

Fiona Cousins, PE, FCIBSE, LEED AP BD+C

Principal ARUP

Front Window - Comparison of Building Materials

“We wanted to bring the role of energy in the built environment and key energy principles, to the forefront in a way that engineers, architects, students, and everyday New Yorkers could relate to these concepts.”

Donna Zimmerman, Curator

Energy Efficient Discussion Panels 

“.. You can change the market...because developers could build offices with energy and cost  efficiency that is totally integral to the process for a whole new wave of development  more like in Europe...which generates income for the city and jobs …” 

Robert W. Goodwin, AIA, LEED AP, Perkins+Will

Perkins Will Office Design for 30th St.,10th Ave Site

“…BIM.(building information modeling) utilizes photographic and accounting software that now allows teams to identify conflicts previously discovered on the site.  By identifying energy efficiency opportunities in advance, costs are reduced." 

R. Anthony Fieldman, AIA, LEED AP, 

Principal, Perkins+Will

Along with the exciting Perkins+Will office design, Buildings=Energy features nearly 30 case studies of active sustainable projects underway in New York City.  For a look at how energy use in buildings is now being quantified in real time, AIANY's Managing Director Cynthia Phifer Kracauer suggested the Energy Lab downstairs on view with other community and family programming exhibits throughout Archtober.  

For more information about Center for Architecture, contact Nicole Friedman, Communications Director at: nfriedman@aiany.org

*Archtober - Architecture and Design Month at the Center for Architecture - The inaugural month-long festival of architecture activities, programs and exhibitions in New York City