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Some of the Bright Lights of New York's Businesses Are Powered by Wind

The use of wind power by owners of commercial real estate in New York City is rising rapidly, but from a very low base, according to energy service companies, which supply the power to businesses.

Publication The New York Times
Date 2009-04-02
Author Jane L. Levere

Real-estate family scions poised to gain

Make no mistake. The Dursts, long one of the most aggressive and least risk-averse of the families, have been busy. The family that led the redevelopment of a sleepy Third Avenue in the 1960s and a tawdry Times Square in the 1980s broke ground on a speculative office tower on West 57th Street and 12th Avenue soon after Sept. 11. More recently, the organization built the 2.1 million-square-foot Bank of America Tower at 1 Bryant Park. And then there were the deals that got away. Mr. Durst bid aggressively on the Freedom Tower, Hudson Yards and then some of the former holdings of developer Harry Macklowe. “We won by losing,” says Mr. Durst.

Publication Crains New York Business
Date 2009-01-11
Author Andrew Marks

The New School to Honor Douglas Durst at 2008 LaGuardia Award Dinner

Annual Benefit Raises Scholarship Funds for The New School. Hosted by New School President Bob Kerrey and Featuring Keynote Speaker Will Rogers.

Publication The New School News Release
Date 2008-09-09

One Bryant Park: Making a Point on the Skyline

Like a shard of quartz thrusting up from Manhattan bedrock, The Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park almost effortlessly tapers 1,200 feet to the tip of its spire—a naturally occurring element in the New York skyline. But creating this urban icon took the monumental coordination of 25,000 tons of structural steel, eight steel fabricators, and a cunningly engineered, cost-saving column design. The collective result is a high-performance tower with equal doses of practicality and poetry.

Publication Metals in Construction (Spring 2008) pgs. 19-27
Date 2008-04-03

Documenting Performance: Does it need to be so hard?

The Editor's Commentary in the Fall 2008 issue of High Performing Buildings (HPB) distilled some of the "Lessons Learned" over the first year of publishing HPB. The commentary stated "getting energy performance data should be easy but what we've learned in our first year is that energy consumption can be a complex issue, and the data that are available need some analysis."

Publication High Performing Buildings (Winter 2009) pgs. 19-23
Date 2008-02-01
Author Adam W. Hinge, P.E., Member ASHRAE; and Donald J. Winston, P.E., Member ASHRAE,
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