RESILIENCY & SUSTAINABILITY
White Roofs
We’ve worked with the
White Roof Project to install a white roof on one of our elder housing developments and three of our smaller buildings, and our
Ascendant Heritage Apartments rehabilitation project will install white roofs on 18 of our remaining buildings.
Painting building roofs white reflects up to 90% of sunlight (as opposed to the 20% reflected by a traditional black roof). On a 90°F day, a black roof can reach temperatures of up to 180°F, while a white roof stays a cool 100°F.
This small change can reduce cooling costs for the building up to 40%, relieves stress on the power grid, decreases smog, and mitigates some of the heat island effect.
Painting building roofs white reflects up to 90% of sunlight (as opposed to the 20% reflected by a traditional black roof). On a 90°F day, a black roof can reach temperatures of up to 180°F, while a white roof stays a cool 100°F.
This small change can reduce cooling costs for the building up to 40%, relieves stress on the power grid, decreases smog, and mitigates some of the heat island effect.
Green Industry Standards
Our ongoing rehabilitation project of our twenty-one oldest buildings meets Enterprise Community Partners’
Green Communities Standards.
AND was an early participant in Con Edison’s Comprehensive Multifamily Program (formerly known as the Multifamily Energy Efficiency Program), when we developed the All Saints Apartments.
We were the second, and are still one of the few, non-profit participants in the Mayor’s Carbon Challenge. Since 2014, we have reduced our carbon emissions by 24.9%, and we are well on our way to reach our 30% reduction goal
AND was an early participant in Con Edison’s Comprehensive Multifamily Program (formerly known as the Multifamily Energy Efficiency Program), when we developed the All Saints Apartments.
We were the second, and are still one of the few, non-profit participants in the Mayor’s Carbon Challenge. Since 2014, we have reduced our carbon emissions by 24.9%, and we are well on our way to reach our 30% reduction goal
Energy Efficiency
We used Con Edison incentives to replace all interior and exterior common area lighting in our buildings with LED lighting.
Most recently, we partnered with
Solar One to assess our portfolio and the buildings owned by our partners in the Northern Manhattan Collaborative for new solar panels and community shared solar potential.
We began installing solar panels on four of our buildings this year.
We began installing solar panels on four of our buildings this year.
AND believes that building neighborhood resiliency isn’t just about preparing for the next Hurricane Sandy; it’s about creating systems that are able to withstand, recover quickly, and bounce back stronger after crises.
The communities of Northern Manhattan, due to topography, a history of disinvestment, and increasingly intense environmental events, are vulnerable to crises like extreme storms, flooding, heat waves, and air pollution.
But our neighborhoods also contain robust networks of people, organizations, and institutions that make the community stronger. AND is committed to helping build resiliency networks across Northern Manhattan by integrating mitigation, protection, and preparation into our buildings, projects, partnerships, and thinking.
Several years ago, AND committed to mitigating the processes that lead to air pollution, reliance on fossil fuels, and global climate change through good design and retrofits for our individual buildings, and progressive energy practices for our portfolio as a whole.
The communities of Northern Manhattan, due to topography, a history of disinvestment, and increasingly intense environmental events, are vulnerable to crises like extreme storms, flooding, heat waves, and air pollution.
But our neighborhoods also contain robust networks of people, organizations, and institutions that make the community stronger. AND is committed to helping build resiliency networks across Northern Manhattan by integrating mitigation, protection, and preparation into our buildings, projects, partnerships, and thinking.
Several years ago, AND committed to mitigating the processes that lead to air pollution, reliance on fossil fuels, and global climate change through good design and retrofits for our individual buildings, and progressive energy practices for our portfolio as a whole.