The facility was designed to exceed the BPC Environmental Guidelines

There’s a new LEED Platinum facility in Battery Park City (BPC). The new 40,500-square-foot Battery Park City Parks Conservancy Maintenance Facility achieved a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Platinum rating under the Commercial Interiors Program. The facility consolidates the Conservancy’s maintenance activities, is home to its educational and art workshops, and provides office and meeting spaces for more than 100 employees. Among its various “green” innovations:

·        A double-glazed exterior wall that insulates and captures solar energy to heat the space in the winter, which doubles as a naturally ventilated circulation spine.

·        A grand, four-story atrium capped with giant fans and louvered skylights that draw natural light into many of the spaces despite being located deep inside the facility. A sophisticated building management system controls the fans, louvers, and lighting throughout the building.

·        Geothermal heating and cooling, radiant heating panels, recycled denim insulation, and bamboo millwork.  

Located on Battery Place at the base of the Visionaire -- BPC’s new, sustainable high-rise residential tower -- the Conservancy’s maintenance facility was designed by Dattner Architects to exceed the BPC Environmental Guidelines. The LEED Platinum facility uses a combination of low-tech, passive strategies, and high-tech equipment to reduce energy costs by 35 percent and water consumption by 47 percent.

Dattner Architects also recently put the finishing touches on one of the city’s most sustainable new school’s, PS/IS 276 at 55 Battery Place.

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