The Climate Center only uses building materials that grow on trees
The partners behind the planned New York climate exchange on governor Iceland have published new details about the project, which will be formulated and implemented in 700 million US, workers' development and public programs in order to formulate and implement climate protection solutions. The 400,000 square meter foot campus becomes 230,000 square meters of new buildings with 170,000 square meters of large-scale mixed historical buildings. The campus layout is said to contain another four morning new public open space, which will join the existing 120 hectare parking country on the island.
The Climate Exchange is now designed by Architects Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and will be the first important construction project in New York, which uses “Masswood”, an environmentally friendly replacement for the traditional building materials of concrete and steel. This is also known as cross-laminated wood (CLT) and is essentially plywood, in which every layer (or “ply”) is a solid hardwood that is a customs or more thick instead of the cardboard width of the layer in common plywood. The result is a building material that is often cheaper compared to steel-reinforced concrete when the strength is measured against weight and has a much lower CO2 footprint than the production of steel or concrete. The buildings vary from four to eight floors and also contains solar and geo-thermal power sources. (The two main buildings are connected by a wavy canopy with photovoltaic cells, which is supposed to cause the hills of the landscape of the Governors Island in their winding contours.)
In a further allusion to the climate driving that the research center wants to mitigate, its base is increased by about eight feet via the nearby waterfront to protect against storms and rising sea levels.
The New York Climate Exchange Project is headed by State University of New York in Stony Brook together with a consortium from university, economic and non-profit partners. Research focuses on three broad topics: environmental justice and inclusion; Energy, water and food systems; And sustainable urban environments.