There is a gut renovation going on accross the street from our green show house. It is a classic renovation where a lot of money is being spent and not much thought going into how it is done. The owner is getting reamed with prices IMO. A couple weeks ago there was a dumpster full […]
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Our budget for the Brooklyn green show house got decimated with this banking crisis. So we don’t really have a budget any more. It is basically as cheap as we can make it. For our kitchens for example we were going to buy salvaged kitchens, make them in house out of salvaged wood or find
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When we went into contract for the property that is currently being built as a green show house it was during the “normal” financial times of March 2006. No storms were on the horizon and everyone was still giddy from the constant rise of funding and property prices. Our plan was to do what we
Here is a useful list of policies put into action by our gov that affect green building. The list is courtesy of Green Policies of interest A. 10684 / S. 8134 Sponsors: Cahill (D-Ulster, Dutchess) / Maziarz (R-Niagara) Signed Into Law: 9/25/08 Creates a new NYSERDA grant program to provide incentives for green residential construction
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This Bush bailout fiasco which in many ways is a total con actually has at least one good side: it earmarks $17 Billion is tax incentives for green building. A tax incentive is no use if you aren’t making enough money to actually pay taxes of course, so for many people a tax incentive is
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Value Engineering is a useful concept. In the article below it is applied to co-ops but can be applied to any building practice. Saving Green, and Greening, Too Value Engineering Analysis helps condo owners and environment It’s no secret that the current trend in home greening has been a boon for developers and homeowners, as
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