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Community Environmental Center Receives $3 Million DOE Grant for Innovative Weatherization Project
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010


Jay Ackley of CEC: A Minnesotan in Gotham
Monday, August 30th, 2010


Lack of Will on Cap & Trade Undermines Recovery and Hurts Climate, But Is There a Future for HomeStar?
Thursday, July 29th, 2010


Donna Parris: Woman of Many Lives
Monday, July 26th, 2010


Community Environmental Center and other agencies receive $12.9 million from DHCR for affordable housing weatherization
Friday, July 23rd, 2010


Community Environmental Center leads a state-of-the-art solar thermal project for the Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizens Council
Thursday, July 15th, 2010


Community Environmental Center is installing solar thermal systems in New York City
Thursday, July 8th, 2010


Community Environmental Center Welcomes JetBlue Airways to the Cool Roofs Movement
Monday, June 21st, 2010


21-year-old Spring Creek Towers resident is learning to weatherize homes
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010


Spring Creek Towers: A City Within The City
Monday, June 7th, 2010


Project Profiles


The Summit – Queens College, Queens, NY

Size: 175,000 sf
CO2 Prevented: 619,579 lbs/yr Money Saved: $77,996 (22.4%)

Queens College wanted its first on-campus residence hall to demonstrate the College’s commitment to having an environmentally friendly urban campus.  As part of Goshow Architects’ team, Community Environmental Center is helping them reach that goal by providing full energy efficiency and green building services. CEC’s energy engineers performed building energy simulations and provided advice on [...]


HeartShare School, Brooklyn, NY

Size: 46,860 sf
CO2 Prevented: 359,400 lbs/yr Money Saved: $53,295/yr (39.3%)

Heartshare’s old and worn-down building was in dire need of an energy retrofit. The school for developmentally disabled children approached CEC to lower their energy losses and help put money back into the school. CEC’s study came up with the following list of technical measures: Replace the existing inefficient hot water boiler and domestic water [...]


Geochemistry Lab – Columbia University, Palisades, NY

Size: 69,289 sf
CO2 Prevented: 3,256,799 lbs/yr Money Saved: $153,421/yr (30%)

Columbia Univeristy’s recently opened Geochemistry Building at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory was designed specifically to reduce energy usage in the high intensity laboratory environment. The facility features over twenty lab rooms, sixty offices, and support rooms, such as meeting spaces. Recommendation made by Community Environmental Center focused on recovering lost latent energy and accommodating partial [...]


133 Pitt Street – The Lee, Manhattan, NY

Size: 99,000 sf
CO2 Prevented: 501,048 lbs/yr Money Saved: $83,311/yr (27.5%)

Common Ground wanted a healthy, sustainable building to house the recent homeless. Because they would be wholly responsible for the energy and operating costs, it was critical for Common Ground to have a well designed building that would use energy efficiently. CEC’s team of energy engineers performed building energy simulations and recommended various measures to [...]


1347 Bristow St, Bronx, NY

Size: 21,350 sf
CO2 Prevented: 106,283 lbs/yr Money Saved: $11,870 (30%)

HPD’s rehabilitation of 1347 Bristow St. is a complete renovation of an existing affordable housing apartment building in the Bronx, the culmination of a four-year and $3.5 million collaboration. HPD”s Division of Architects, Construction and Engineers (DACE), as the lead architect, developed the scope of work for the building in cooperation with the New York [...]