Here is a video camera that has been placed in an eagle’s nest. It streams 24/7 all day and switches to night vision at night. Live coverage of our noble wildlife. Very high tech and a little sad in some ways that our wildlife has been put on stage like that. But forgetting the small …
The answer is no. Here is what the Green Roof and Solar Department at the NYC DOB told me: The building code does not explicitly provide a threshold for when a green roof installation would require a permit. The department is currently developing rules to provide guidance. In the meantime, a green roof installation is …
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A couple blogs (1 , 2 , 3 , 4) have picked up the goings on at 22 2nd street, the Eco Brooklyn green show house and my home. What sparked the interest is a recent screw up by the DOB where they gave me a permit to build a storage room in my front yard and …
Reading the book “Designing Your Natural Home, Over 200 Rules of Good Architecture You Can Apply to New or Renovated Work by Award-Winning Designers, Charles G. Woods and Old Malcolm Wells” (long tittle!) is like sitting with two friends on a quiet evening. Each night after a long day in the field I would come home …
Eco Brooklyn is a New York clay wall installer. We don’t use any brand name clay mixed but prefer to mix the clay ourselves depending on the use. We recently installed some cool clay concrete base molding onto a clay wall. The challenge was that the clay wall was not flat enough for salvaged wood base molding. There …
Have you ever wondered what fire rating a bulkhead wall needed (1hr)? Or the legal height of a railing on a roof (42″) ? Or how many layers of roofing you are allowed to cover up with a new one (no more than two)? These questions can only accurately be answered by the NYC building …
If you ever wanted to know the full legal verbage to the New York green roof tax rebate bill green_roof_legislation. It goes into great detail about definition and requirements of a legal green roof installation in New York. The reason it is important to have this document is that the Brooklyn and New York DOB …
Eco Brooklyn just came out of a renovation of a four story brownstone where the budget was very tight. We took the job full of idealism believing we could make green building affordable to somebody with a small budget. It ended badly. We had to hire workers willing to charge lower salaries which resulted in …
Here is a great Gray Water Study done by some college students that addresses the main concerns of residential gray water reuse. It is strange that gray water is such an under developed industry since it is such an important part of green building everywhere. Eco Brooklyn is currently designing three gray water systems for residential New …
The web site Planet Brooklyn did a nice article on Eco Brooklyn. The author of the article Rochana has a very clear writing style that is great to read. Check it out here.
