There is a growing trend toward all-electrification of new and existing buildings in multifamily housing as a means to achieve significant cost savings, reduce carbon pollution, and improve indoor air […]

Winner in the 2021 Regional & Urban Design Awards, Essex Crossing gets featured in Architect Magazine! Bright Power is the sustainability consultant for the multifamily sites. This includes bringing 31 […]

Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens’ Laudato Si Corporation, named after Pope Francis’ 2015 Encyclical: On Care for Common Home Addressing Climate Change Will Generate Renewable Energy and Income to Continue […]

The $105m, 227,000 sq ft project was developed by The Hudson Companies and designed by CetraRuddy Architecture and NV5 Landscape Architecture, with Wells Fargo serving as the project’s construction lender […]

Energy performance beats conventionally built by 32% to 58%. A recent study from the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development, the Community Preservation Corp., Bright Power and […]

A close look at a strategy that’s providing fresh answers to the demand for energy-efficient multifamily operations. Passive House is slowly gaining popularity in the U.S., serving as an uncompromising […]

Vital Brookdale, a new mixed-use residential development in Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood, has topped out. The project includes 160 affordable housing units and approximately 25,000-sf of health-focused community space. The project […]

Albany, NY Governor Andrew Cuomo named 10 real estate groups as partners in the state’s $50 million Empire Building Challenge, to establish public-private partnerships and usher in the next generation of […]

Carmel Pratt is director of new construction at Bright Power, a New York City-based energy services management company. Pratt manages teams working on ground-up new construction, rehabilitation, and commissioning projects. What […]