360 State Street is a 300-foot (91 m) residential skyscraper completed in 2010 in New Haven, Connecticut. It is the second-tallest building in the city, and the largest apartment building in the state. DeSimone Consulting Engineers were the structural engineers on the building and it won the 2009 New York Construction - Top Project of the Year.
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Features
The mixed-use modernist building, includes 500 luxury apartments and 25,000 sq ft (2,300 m2) of retail space. Designated a "green" building by the US Green Building Council (USGBC), it is the first residential building in Connecticut to gain Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum status and includes a rooftop garden as well as a corner "pocket park" that may be developed as a day care center in the future. A full-scale food co-op occupies the building's ground floor. 360 State was constructed on the site where Shartenberg's Department Store stood from 1915 to 1962.
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Green living
- Connecticut's first residence targeting LEED Platinum Certification
- 1/2 the carbon footprint and utility bill of a conventional apartment
- Energy-use web page with remote programming for each apartment
- 400 kW fuel cell on site to produce clean, renewable power
- Elevators that recapture their own energy
- Electric-car charging stations
- Zipcars available
- Convenient first-floor storage for your bicycle
- Recycled and local construction materials
- Recycling room on each floor
- Real-time building performance data available
- Half-acre green roof with rainwater harvesting and irrigation system
- Building-wide high-efficiency lighting and occupancy sensors
- Demand-control ventilation
- Exhaust-heat energy recovery
- Walk to over 30 Zagat-rated restaurants
- Next to State Street train station with direct access to New York. Near Union Station for travel to Boston, Hartford and Washington, DC
- This clean energy project was made possible by a grant from the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund
References
External links
- Official website
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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