The future is now (and necessary): Energy neutral buildings
Brooklyn's Self-Powered Solar Building: A Game-Changer for Green Construction?
The unique bed and breakfast and green building showcase aims to redefine the limits of green urban design—everywhere.
By Maria Gallucci, InsideClimate News
Aug 13, 2012
New York City's triangular-shaped buildings are notorious for being problematic sites for solar panels. Starting this fall, one five-story Brooklyn complex will defy that notion—by generating more solar power than it uses and becoming one of the city's greenest structures.
The building, the $700,000 Delta project, straddles the corner of Hamilton Avenue and 9th Street in the Carroll Gardens neighborhood. When it officially opens in September, the Delta will triple as a bed and breakfast, Philly cheesesteak shop and showcase for green building technologies. It is expected to influence carbon-neutral and net-zero energy construction in dense urban environments nationwide.
The Delta's front facade is clad in sun-deflecting red bricks—made not from traditional heat-absorbing clay but from recycled glass and cement. Seventy solar panels, each the height and length of a small fridge, lay flat against the building's other two sides. About a dozen and a half more panels hang above windows like awnings, or seem to float above the roof on a metal rack.
The unique bed and breakfast and green building showcase aims to redefine the limits of green urban design—everywhere.
By Maria Gallucci, InsideClimate News
Aug 13, 2012
New York City's triangular-shaped buildings are notorious for being problematic sites for solar panels. Starting this fall, one five-story Brooklyn complex will defy that notion—by generating more solar power than it uses and becoming one of the city's greenest structures.
The building, the $700,000 Delta project, straddles the corner of Hamilton Avenue and 9th Street in the Carroll Gardens neighborhood. When it officially opens in September, the Delta will triple as a bed and breakfast, Philly cheesesteak shop and showcase for green building technologies. It is expected to influence carbon-neutral and net-zero energy construction in dense urban environments nationwide.
The Delta's front facade is clad in sun-deflecting red bricks—made not from traditional heat-absorbing clay but from recycled glass and cement. Seventy solar panels, each the height and length of a small fridge, lay flat against the building's other two sides. About a dozen and a half more panels hang above windows like awnings, or seem to float above the roof on a metal rack.
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