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Community Environmental Center joins Queens Library for “Greening Libraries” Project
Wednesday, January 18th, 2012


Weatherization Funding: Surviving by the Skin of Our Teeth, by Alexis Greene
Friday, December 23rd, 2011


Luck of the Irish – A Winner of the CEC Raffle
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011


Want to create jobs? Consider an Energy Corps, by Richard Cherry
Friday, December 9th, 2011


Community Environmental Center Installs Solar Thermal System at JCC on Staten Island
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011


Community Environmental Center Is LEED Consultant for LEED Gold Dormitory at Queens College
Wednesday, November 16th, 2011


The partnership between Green City Force and Community Environmental Center, by Lisbeth Shepherd
Thursday, November 10th, 2011


Helen M. Marshall, President of the Borough of Queens, Proclaims Tuesday, November 1, Community Environmental Center Weatherization Day
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011


Community Environmental Center receives Service Merit Award from NYSERDA
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011


Community Environmental Center to celebrate Weatherization Day November 1
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011


Gateway School Achieves LEED Silver Certification

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

An innovative classroom at the Gateway School

The new facility for the Gateway School, an Upper West Side school that uses different methods for different learners, achieved LEED Silver certification last week.

The project sailed through the construction credit review at the US Green Building Council, which was a rare achievement in of itself.  Construction credits are the difficult-to-document assurances that the building has been constructed to exacting LEED standards.

An innovative classroom in the Gateway School.

The light-filled main stairway at the Gateway School.

We would like to thank Andrew Bartle Architects for their wonderful design and ideas, and the Gateway School for making ‘green’ a part of their mission.  Schools are quickly becoming one of the biggest proponents of the LEED system because of how easy it is to make the connection with responsible teaching and lesson plans and green building.  At the Gateway School, the building itself will act as a classroom, teaching valuable hands on lessons to a new generation.

From beginning to end, LEED certification can take many years, and even though CEC has been working on LEED projects for over five years, this is the first one that has achieved certification.  (We have four more imminently pending.)

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