New Yorkâs Real Climate Challenge: Fixing Its Aging Buildings
Nearly 70 percent of the cityâs total carbon emissions come from buildings. A project to retrofit nine buildings with green technology is pioneering a new solution.
The Casa Pasiva retrofit project is the first of its kind in New York. The city and New York State have zeroed in on buildings in pursuit of meaningful cuts to carbon.Credit.John Muggenborg for The New York Times
By Patrick Sisson
Dec. 29, 2020
A plan to upgrade a cluster of nine unremarkable apartment buildings in Brooklyn typically would not merit a second look. But this isnât a quick fix; the project, called Casa Pasiva, aims to be a new model for the sustainable transformation of the cityâs housing stock.