Watch the video here! As part of our Problem Solved series, Habitat spoke with Darren Johnson, a senior accounts manager at Bright Power. Figuring out an upgrade path to meet the requirements of the […]

Carol Ott, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Habitat, interviews Darren Johnson, Senior Account Manager Figuring out an upgrade path to meet the requirements of the Climate Mobilization Act, or Local Law […]

After 20 years of service, the chiller at the Plaza Tower in Lenox Hill was nearing the end of its useful life. The stand-alone unit had generated chilled water to provide air conditioning for the 34-story, […]

Understanding the difference between the two metrics is key to your decision-making. “They are based on different metrics,” says David Sachs, an engineer who is the director of existing buildings […]

With so many New Yorkers working at home and spending extended hours indoors during the coronavirus pandemic, co-op and condo boards’ thoughts may be turning to indoor air quality. This […]

Most of the 1,200 apartments in the Clinton Hill Co-op have three radiators. To attack the chronic problem of imbalanced heat, the co-op board decided to install a Radiator Cozy on each radiator. The […]

It’s as if “’Twas the Night Before Christmas” went horribly awry: Away to the window you fly like a flash, tear open the shutters and throw up the sash – […]

In the June issue of Habitat, we told the story of the dedicated, dogged board at the Grinnell, an 82-unit HDFC co-op in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan. Working with the Bright Power energy consultancy and guided by […]

Port Authority, JPMorgan Chase, swytchX, Sidewalk Labs and The Grinnell Award Recipients  Goldman Sachs, Cornell Tech, Omni NY, Normandy Honored   NEW YORK, NY—October 30, 2019—The New York Energy Consumers […]