Recommendations of New York green building codes
After having looked at the lessons learnt from the New York city's initiative at creating Green code taskforce to make New York city’s buildings 75% more energy efficient in 20 years, the article presents a summary of the 111 recommendations which all in an integrated manner would achieve this. Environment, health, Costs & savings being the major criteria, the recommendations have been generated in ten major themes in response to climate change. The ten themes include: Overarching code issues (seven recommendations), health and toxicity (20), energy & carbon emissions-fundamentals (17), energy & carbon emissions- energy efficiency (28), energy & carbon emissions-operations and maintenance (six), building resilience (nine), resource conservation (five), water efficiency (seven), storm water (seven), urban ecology (five).