On Saturday, Sam and I went to The Solaire, a new residential building in Battery Park City that is a green building - it is quite amazing in its design, as well as the amount people will pay to live there (a 2-bedroom goes for $6000 a month!). The green roof is pretty cool, but the feature that most impressed me was the wastewater treatment plant in the basement, which treats all the water in the building and the neighboring building, and reuses the treated water for toilets and irrigation in the two buildings and Teardrop Park next door. My firm is hoping to do something like this in a project in California, but nothing like that has ever been done in a residential building before, so I'm hoping this will be able to help our cases when it comes to getting approval from the authorities. Teardrop Park itself was also pretty neat - made mostly with construction waste from the nearby developments. The three R's at work.

Posted by dahl at October 8, 2006 6:30 PM

what firm and what project are you working on in CA?