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 September/October 2005 Issue
Third Street 
by Henry Gifford
In a departure from the norm of trying to make a building energy efficient by adding fancy gadgets, two apartment houses just built in New York City achieve extreme energy efficiency by combining normal materials with better design. Each building features a minimum efficiency boiler,R- 11 wall insulation, standard aluminumframe windows, and concrete-block walls.The result: the first energy-efficient buildings built for the same cost as codeminimum construction.
One of the new apartment buildings is a six-story, 38-family building at 299 East 3rd Street; the other is a seven-story, 22-family building down the block at 228 East...
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