Local apartment designs for net-zero energy consumption win awards
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A drawing of what a new five-story multifamily building built by Rosenblum Development would look like at the Great Oaks Office Park.Provided
Apartment buildings constructed with net-zero energy use in Albany and Rotterdam are winners in the latest round of a competition sponsored by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority. Net zero, a measure of sustainability, means all the power necessary for a building is generated on-site and wastewater is handled on-site.
One local winner is Building C, a 77,609-square-foot, seven-floor mixed-use structure with 69 residential units at 76 Second Ave. in Albany s South End, proposed by South End Development and Garrison Architects. It is part of a four-building plan for the block called The Seventy-Six that would be built on 32 separate parcels along a sloping piece of land between Leonard and Krank streets. It would be built around