New 89,000 square-foot automated ability for accomplished arts casework close will affection renewable activity pilot program.
New York, NY -- Stantec (TSX:STN; NYSE:SXC) today appear that a new, 89,000-square-foot architecture beneath architecture at the Brooklyn Navy Yard will affection energy-saving solar and wind-generated ability as allotment of a renewable activity pilot program. The building, accepted to be completed summer 2008, will be active by SurroundArt, a accomplished arts casework close that will accomplish the architecture a allotment of its new Museum Resource Campus.
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The Perry Avenue architecture will angle as a appreciative archetype of blooming architecture and architecture in an automated setting We are committed to sustainability and acclaim the efforts of SurroundArt and the Brooklyn Navy Yard for all-embracing the cause. Stantec brings amazing acquaintance and ability in blooming architecture architecture to the Perry Ave. activity and we could not be in bigger hands We are acutely appreciative and aflame to move into what will be the nation's aboriginal multi-story, multi-tenanted LEED Silver Industrial Building. In affiliation with National Grid Energy Services, the Perry Avenue architecture will analysis photovoltaic, or PV, solar activity production. PV technology uses solar beef or panels to catechumen sun activity into electricity. The activity captured by the PV panels will serve the accepted electric basin of the building, alive in alongside with the filigree to abate the building's use of accepted deposit ammunition sources of electricity. Wind turbines on the roof will aswell accord to the building's abject electrical accumulation and are angry to the capital electrical switchgear.
Combined, the addition activity sources are accepted to abatement assurance on acceptable activity sources by as abundant as 5 percent. High-efficiency designs for the architecture carapace and architecture systems will abate activity burning further.
Designed by Stantec architects, the Perry Avenue building is advised to accommodated the standards for Silver LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification. To accomplish this rating, the architecture aswell incorporates such appearance as the use of recycled rain baptize in toilets, cogitating beam and pavement to abate apparent temperatures, recycled architecture materials, high-efficiency lighting fixtures, accustomed blast systems, and appropriate acclimation for bicyclists and low-emission vehicles.
"The Perry Avenue architecture will angle as a appreciative archetype of blooming architecture and architecture in an automated setting," said Joseph Donovan, artisan and arch at Stantec. "We are committed to sustainability and acclaim the efforts of SurroundArt and the Brooklyn Navy Yard for all-embracing the cause."
The three-building SurroundArt Museum Resource campus includes the new Perry Avenue building, addition 71,000 aboveboard anxiety in Building Three at the Navy Yard and the adaptive re-use of the historic, century-old Paymaster Building. Stantec's role is as artisan of the exoteric of the Perry Avenue building, while Steven Kratchman Architect has been called for autogenous and campus design.
Stantec is complex in hundreds of renewable activity projects above the US and Canada, including studies, design, and ecology plan for a amount of all-embracing wind acreage projects. The close is aswell allowance to advance a new action to catechumen decay fats, oils, and greases into advantageous energy, and has advised array of LEED-certified buildings, including offices, schools, baptize analysis plants, accomplishment facilities, residential complexes, and added structures.
"Stantec brings amazing acquaintance and ability in blooming architecture architecture to the Perry Ave. activity and we could not be in bigger hands," said SurroundArt CEO Michael Murray. "We are acutely appreciative and aflame to move into what will be the nation's aboriginal multi-story, multi-tenanted LEED Silver Industrial Building."
About Stantec:
Stantec provides able architecture and consulting casework in planning, engineering, architecture, surveying, economics, and activity management. We abutment accessible and clandestine area audience in a assorted ambit of markets in the basement and accessories area at every stage, from antecedent abstraction and banking achievability to activity achievement and beyond. Our casework are offered through about 9,000 advisers operating out of added than 125 locations in North America. Stantec trades on the TSX beneath the attribute STN and on the NYSE beneath the attribute SXC.
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About SurroundArt:
SurroundArt is a full-service building ability aggregation with offices, workrooms, and warehouses in New York and Washington, DC. Founded in 1998, the aggregation supports the all-embracing accomplished arts association by accouterment a advanced arrangement of services, including temperature-controlled and defended storage, crating, packing, transportation, fabrication, design, and art handling. To axle its growth, SurroundArt is developing a different and all-embracing "fine arts campus" at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, with added than 165,000 aboveboard anxiety of amplitude beneath management. Staffed by museum-trained professionals, who are accomplished in accomplished arts and amorous about their craft, SurroundArt has become a trusted ability to abounding of the better and a lot of admired museums, foundations and clandestine collectors in the world.
More advice can be begin at www.surroundart.com.
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