Goldman Copeland has been honored by New York State for its role in the Empire Building Challenge, a $50 million initiative to help advance a climate-friendly building stock in New York. In the Challenge, orchestrated by NYSERDA (the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority), Goldman Copeland led a team consisting of Equity Residential and Ruhl Technology.
The team developed a solution for full building electrification at two residential towers, totaling 467,762 square feet, in New York City: 777 6th Avenue, located in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, and 180 Montague Street, which straddles the Brooklyn Heights and Downtown Brooklyn neighborhoods. The solution, when coupled with water-based energy storage, will reduce energy consumption in the buildings by approximately 50%.
The solution includes heat recovery from wastewater for heat pumps, energy recovery at the roof to significantly reduce heating and cooling requirements for fresh air, and the implementation of packaged terminal or centralized heat pumps for full building electrification. Through the incorporation of heat recovery and the reuse of existing piping and electric infrastructure, the solution provides a replicable and scalable model that can be implemented at most multi-family, high-rise, residential buildings.
Tristan Schwartzman, a Principal at Goldman Copeland and the Director of Energy Services (on the far right) accepted the recognition on April 3rd, along with (left to right) Chris Plati, Vice President of Construction Services at Equity Residential; Baris Sevinc, Senior Facilities Director at Equity Residential, and Brian Cha, the project’s lead energy engineer at Goldman Copeland.
For more information about Goldman Copeland’s energy expertise, which includes completing energy audits and retro-commissioning projects for over 75 million square feet of commercial and institutional properties, contact Sarah Ingber at [email protected].
