3 MetroTech Center
New York City
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3 MetroTech Center
3 MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY
330,000 Total sq ft.
- New York University
- Renovation
- BCCC Award: $2,000,000
- EnerPHit
- LEED for renovation
Measures
- Air Source Heat Pump
- High Performance Envelope
- Battery Storage
- Energy Recovery Ventilator
- Stormwater Management
- Disadvantaged Community Location
- Downtown Revitalization Initiative Location
- NYS DEC Potential Environmental Justice Area Location
Award: $2,000,000
REDC: New York City
Project Description
The renovation of 3 MetroTech Center (3MTC), located within a New York State designated disadvantaged community, will transform a 330,000 square foot commercial building into New York University’s (NYU) (opens in new window) Brooklyn campus gateway with classrooms, student amenities, and academic offices. This renovation targets carbon neutral performance, LEED and EnerPHit certification, and Local Law 97 compliance through at least 2040. It will be NYU’s first non-residential Passive House certified building, largest all-electric building and would be the world’s largest Passive House commercial retrofit. Due to a highly efficient, EnerPHit certified envelope with triple pane windows, smaller heating and cooling systems can be installed. Full electrification of heating, cooling, and domestic hot water via air-to-water heat recovery heat pumps along with a dedicated outdoor air system with heat recovery to provide filtered, conditioned air will improve indoor air quality, noise and thermal comfort of the building. This project will inform future NYU construction, and due to its highly replicable post-war commercial typology, can directly inform the retrofit of millions of square feet of buildings statewide.
The Building Cleaner Communities Competition
The Building Cleaner Communities Competition supports regionally significant, zero emissions and resilient new construction and existing building renovation projects across New York State. Building Cleaner Communities projects demonstrate how they will help achieve the goals of the New York State Regional Economic Development Council’s Strategic Plan (opens in new window) or other State priorities, while creating resilient and functional spaces that are healthy, safe, comfortable.