awards
The Beacon NYSERDA Buildings of Excellence Project Winner
demonstration category, 2024
We are supremely honored to announce our receipt of NYSERDA’s Building of Excellence award in Round 4’s Demonstration category for The Beacon, East Harlem.
NYSERDA’s Buildings of Excellence is a $58 million competition that recognizes and rewards the design, construction, and operation of carbon neutral or zero emissions multifamily buildings.
Read the full press release on the BOE Round 4 winners here and learn more about The Beacon Residential Facility here.
Architects
Community Facility: Paul A. Castrucci Architects
Residential Building: Paul A. Castrucci Architects
Developer: The Community Builders & Ascendant Neighborhood Development
This firm believes our city can be more resilient, livable, and beautiful when made up of buildings that prioritize carbon neutral construction. We are eager to push NYC and the industry toward a carbon neutral future.
The Beacon NYSERDA Buildings of Excellence Project Winner
Early-stage Design, 2023
PCA is proud to be selected as NYSERDA’s BOE Early-Stage Design partners to carry out the study of carbon neutral-ready research for the Beacon at East Harlem Development. The study will investigate repeatable strategies of electrification in New York State’s housing stock.
To learn more about the Beacon’s research work, please join us at the NYC Building Energy Exchange for a presentation on the grid interactivity.
Read the full press release on the BOE Round 3 winners here and learn more about the Beacon here.
Architects
Community Facility: Paul A. Castrucci Architects
Residential Building: Victor Body Lawson & W X Y Studio
Developer: The Community Builders & Ascendant Neighborhood Development
wOODLAWN SENIOR U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY’S Better Project Award Winner, 2023
Woodlawn Senior was recognized as 2023 Better Project Award winner by the U.S. Department of Energy for the team’s innovative & industry-leading accomplishments in implementing & promoting practices, principles, & procedures of energy management.
PCA is proud to partner with RiseBoro Community Partnership on the DOE’s The Better Project winner, Woodlawn Senior Affordable Housing project.
Architect: Paul A. Castrucci Architects
Developer: RiseBoro Community Partnership
General Contractor: L Riso and Sons
Consultants: Zero Energy Design, New York Engineers, RD Gibble and Grant Engineering
Bethany Senior terraces
nyserda buildings of excellence blue ribbon awardee
second round, 2021
NYSERDA’s Buildings of Excellence competition is a $40 million competition over three rounds. The competition recognizes and rewards the design, construction, and operation of very low or zero carbon emitting multifamily buildings. This affordable housing project will be one of New York’s first modular Passive House projects, and with its 130 kW rooftop solar array will become part of the roadmap to a carbon neutral future.
Architect: Paul A. Castrucci Architects Developer: RiseBoro Community Partnership MEP: New York Engineers Structural: Murray Engineering Passive House Consultant: ZeroEnergy Design Geotechnical: Grant Engineering
press
158 Clifton residence
BUILDING BROOKLYN AWARD
HISTORIC RESTORATION, 2018
Owner: Sawkill Lumber/ Alan Soloman Architect: Paul A. Castrucci Architect Builder: Blue Line Construction Sustainability Consultant: Right Environments
R-951
NYSERDA recognition
2016
R-951 has been recognized by the New York State Energy and Research Development Agency (NYSERDA) with an award to be received during the ACI conference in February 2016 in Saratoga Springs, NY. Citation accepted from Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams
R-951
Trailblazing Project Award winner
2015
The New York State Energy and Research Development Authority has recognized Paul A. Castrucci, Architect with the Trailblazing Project Award for the R-951 Residence. The Trailblazing Award honors the Passive House/Net Zero building as an innovative and unique high performance prototype.
PAUL A. CASTRUCCI
AIA COTE AWARD winner
2015
In September 2015, the first Net Zero and Passive House building in the city, R-951, was declared the AIA NY COTE winner for the Townhouse category. On December 14th, Paul A. Castrucci was presented the award in a ceremony at the AIA headquarters in New York, where he gave a short lecture on the project's high efficiency for energy conversation and innovating technologies.
2015 R-951 RESIDENCE RECOGNIZED AT PHIUS AWARDS
On September 10th, 2015, R-951 Residence was recognized by the Passive House Institute in the US as an exemplary project that uses Passive House practices and Net Zero methodologies. R-951 Residence was awarded second place in their Multifamily Passive House Category.
2015 PAUL A. CASTRUCCI AWARDED BROOKLYN CITATION
On August 5th, 2015, Brooklyn Deputy Borough President Diana Reyna, on behalf of Borough President Eric L. Adams, bestowed Further Inc., Aeon Solar and our office with Citations in recognition of our work to make energy sustainability a reality.
2017
LifeHacker: Inside the Green Design Principles Behind a Passive House in Brooklyn
CITYREALTY: Nine-story Passive House May Be Replacing Decrepit Stretch of Retail at 312-322 Canal Street
Curbed: Pearl Paint's Canal Street Conversion finally Clears Landmarks Commission
TECH INSIDER: One of Manhattan's latest luxury apartment buildings has an amenity that cost-conscious residents will love
6SQFT: Sad Stretch of Canal Street Retail May Be Replaced with this Nine-story Passive House
Tribeca Citizen: Rendering for a New Nine-story Building on Canal Street
2016
EdicomEdizioni: Resilienza e resistenza in contesto urbano R-951 Residence, New York (USA)
2015
Curbed: Open House New York Puts 5 Unique NYC Homes On View
NY Post: The green home craze that’s saving New Yorkers money
Oculus: An Active Market for Passive. page 30-32
Treehugger: Made for each other: Net Zero and Passive House
Daily News: SUN CITY: NY homeowners are signing on to go solar at historically high rates
Inhabitat: Beautiful and bountiful rooftop garden grows atop former LES squat
EV Grieve: An Urban Garden Grows Atop Umbrella
NY Times: Umbrella House: East Village Co-op Run by Former Squatters
Doggerel: Passive house: A road map for radically reducing energy consumption?
The Sallan Foundation: Getting Active On Passive House
Dwell: A Passive House Grows in Brooklyn
Curbed: Mapping New York City's Booming Passive House Movement
PSFK: Brooklyn’s First Self-Sustained House Condo Building
Net Zero Energy Buildings, Passive House + Renewables Editor and Writer: Mary James. page 42-43.
2014
Brooklyn Vegan: ABC No Rio hope to start constructing new building in 2015
Curbed: ABC No Rio Plans to Start Work on New Ecotastic Home in 2015
Bowery Boogie: ABC No Rio Hopes to Break Ground on New ‘Passive House’ Facility in Spring 2015
6sqft: ABC No Rio’s Graffiti-Covered Tenement Will Be Replaced with an Ultra-Modern “Passive House”
Curbed: Prospect Heights Gets Three 'Passive' Condos From $1.4M
Yahoo Finance: R-951 Residence is Designed as One of the First Passive House/Net Zero Capable Buildings in New York
Green Building Elements: New, Passive House Condo Going Up in Brooklyn
eOculus: Prospect Heights Passive
Inhabitat: Brooklyn’s First Passive House Condo Building Rises in Prospect Heights
BuildingGreen.com: A Passive House Movement Grows in Brooklyn
2013
Green Building Advisor: Passivhaus is Blossoming in Brooklyn
GreenHomeNYC: ABC NO RIO A Green Community Facility in New York, NY
2012
Curbed: Green Future Unveiled for Lower East Side's ABC No Rio
EV Grieve: Checking in on ABC No Rio's new home; old home still standing
Observer: ABC No Rio Goes Green, With Ivy and Envy
GreenHomeNYC: 951 Pacific Street. A Passive House Project
Inhabitat: ABC No Rio’s New Home Will Be a Solar-Powered Building With a Fresh Planted Façade
2011
Architect's Newspaper: RIO GRANDE - Space for artists and activists gets boost from New York City & LMDC
The New York Times: For an Architect and His Family, a Home and a Laboratory
2008
The Brooklyn Rail: ABC No Rio
2004
GreenHomeNYC: 179 Rivington St. A Green Residential Building in New York, NY