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A Navy Yard Grows in Brooklyn

The new building is the park’s first foray into sustainable construction.

Meaghan O'Neill -- Interior Design, 11/6/2006 12:00:00 AM

A new multi-tenant industrial building in the Brooklyn Navy Yard marks the first phase of an impressive expansion program. The initiative will add more than 400,000 square feet of new space to the borough’s industrial park, which already holds 40 buildings spread out over 300 waterfront acres of the New York borough. The building is designed by Vollmer Associates, an engineering, architecture, planning, landscape, and surveying firm with 23 offices throughout the northeast. In all, the project includes six new buildings, which will be developed over the next three years.

Managed by the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation (BNYDC), the 89,000-square-foot, three-story building currently under construction will feature large high-bay spaces on the first floor for warehouse and assembly or process uses and smaller spaces on the upper floors for multiple tenants such as artisans and light manufacturers. Completion is expected for early 2008.

The project has been accepted to the pilot core and shell program of the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED rating system, and seeks to obtain Silver or higher certification. A wide range of sustainable features are being incorporated in the design, including a wind turbine that will supply part of the building's energy, a high-performance thermal envelope, waterless urinals, a storm-water harvesting system, a natural ventilation system, and recycled materials. The project marks the BNYDC's first foray into LEED certification.