Page 10 - Green Builder September-October 2018 Issue

Cornell Tech Takes Top Honors

With ‘The House’

LEED’s Home Award winners includes industry
leaders, innovators and ‘power builders.’

C ORNELL UNIVERSITY’S THE HOUSE at Cornell Tech in Roosevelt
BY MARY SCHROTT
Island, New York City, has been named as the U.S. Green Building
Council (USGBC)’s 2017 LEED Home Awards Project of the Year, the
association announced.
LEED’s annual competition recognizes innovative projects,
architects, developers and homebuilders leading the residential green building
market, according to USGBC President and CEO Mahesh Ramanujam. “We believe
that every building, especially homes, should be green,” he says. “The LEED Homes
Awards showcase the most inspired and e•cient practices in the residential green
building movement. These leaders show what it means to create a home that
balances aesthetic appeal with real human and environmental needs.”
Winners in the competition’s seven major categories include multi-family,
single-family and a—ordable housing projects, and companies that utilized
innovative and e—ective sustainability methods in residential spaces in 2017,
Ramanujam notes.
The grand winner, nicknamed “The House,” is a LEED Platinum-certi˜ed
apartment building occupied by Cornell Tech students, sta— and faculty. It is also
the world’s ˜rst residential high-rise built to Passive House standards, according
to Handell Architects, the project’s designer. The 26-story structure uses 60-70
percent less energy than that of a similarly sized typical building. The House is also
projected to save 882 tons of CO2 per year, about the same as planting 5,300 trees.
Other companies involved in the project included Cornell University, The
Hudson Companies, Steven Winter Associates, Buro Happold, Vidaris and
Monadnock Construction. A complete list of winners is at www.usgbc.org. GB
Mary Schrott is USGBC’s media and communications associate. 25 years

USGBC also announced its “LEED Homes Power Builders,”
those developers and builders that “have exhibited an
outstanding commitment to LEED and the green building
movement within the residential sector.” Developers and
CREDIT: COURTESY OF USGBCJAMES SHANKS certification level were eligible for consideration:
builders must have LEED-certified 90 percent of their
homes per unit count built in 2017. Homes at any LEED

■ Koral & Gobuty Development
■ Construction Rocket Inc.

■ JHM
■ Frankel Building Group

■ AMLI Residential
■ Habitat for Humanity

of Kent County
■ Alliance Residential
■ Carmel Partners
Companies
Standing tall. Energy-saving and ■ The Dinerstein ■ C&C Development
carbon emissions-absorbing ■ Metro West ■ Native American
construction elements helped The Housing Solutions Connections
House at Cornell Tech win USGBC’s ■ Forest City Realty Trust ■ The Community Builders
2017 LEED Home Awards Project of ■ MHI Dallas ■ Thrive Home Builders
the Year competition. ■ Gerding Edlen ■ Active West
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