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EVENTS CALENDAR

Contracts That Promote Building Performance

1/14

6:00pm - 8:00pm
NYC Bar Association

Join Urban Green and the NYC Bar Association for a conversation about how construction contracts can keep up with the needs of high-performance buildings.

EP Happy Hour

1/15

6:00pm - 8:00pm
Juke Bar

Join Urban Green’s Emerging Professionals for our January happy hour! Catch up with colleagues and meet new young professionals in sustainability.

What's New in the Energy Code

1/28

5:30pm - 8:00pm
Club 101

Join Urban Green and the Cross-Learning Alliance to learn the key aspects of the 2020 Stretch Energy Code, which will go into effect this spring.

GPRO Fundamentals

2/28

9:00am - 3:30pm
Urban Green Council

Learn about sustainable buildings and strategies to make any building more efficient, comfortable and resilient! This course is ideal for any building professional.

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LATEST NEWS

MEMBERS: VOTE FOR YOUR 2020 BOARD

As a member of Urban Green, you're invited (and encouraged!) to vote on our 2020 Board of Directors Slate.

We need your participation to elect our 2020 board. Visit our website to cast your vote online!

Thank you!


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WHAT'S NEW IN THE 2020 ENERGY CODE?

The 2020 NYStretch Energy Code goes into effect March 3 and will significantly change how NYC buildings are designed, constructed and retrofitted.

Join us on January 28 for a Cross-Learning Alliance dinner event highlighting important updates to the new code. Leading experts will detail the code's changes and discuss what building professionals should focus on.


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NYC'S SUSTAINABLE ROOF LAWS

Two laws in NYC’s Climate Mobilization Act aim to transform the city’s rooftops in the decades ahead. Local Laws 92 and 94 require that solar panels or green roofs are installed where feasible on all new construction and major roof renovations.

The new requirements took effect on November 15, 2019. Our just-released Sustainable Roof Laws Policy Brief, created in partnership with The Nature Conservancy, explains the basics of what you need to know.


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COMMUNITY

Design Discovery: Green Design Challenge

The Center for Architecture's Design Discovery workshops provide a fun hands-on way for high schoolers to learn more about the built environment. Know a student interested in sustainability or architecture? Don't let them miss January's workshop on green buildings!

January 18 | New York City