In the past decade there have been a flood of green building certifications developed as guidelines for contractors, architects, and developers to follow in order to build a “green building”. Just in the U.S. there are half a dozen very popular ones. If we focus on a world scale there are even more. Here is

Cork comes from the bark of the Cork oak (Quercus Suber).  It is the outer most layer of the bark that is harvested when the tree is mature after about 25 years old.  The tree grows to be about 65 feet tall and is and evergreen so is won’t shed its leaves in the fall. 

When Eco- Brooklyn hands over a renovated brownstone to a client our goal is to do more than a renovation. Our hope is that the new structure will change the way the inhabitants impact the world. We do this through the way we actually carry out the renovations a well as how the home is