Rogers International Inter-district Environmental Magnet School

The school, serving 660 students, features a gymnasium, media center, cafeteria and theater. The school contains a variety of sustainable design features for practical and educational purposes, including a vegetated roof, rain gardens and bioswales for storm water management. Vidaris professionals had been performing energy and green analyses until 2006 as part of the Energy/Green/Commissioning group of another company.

Fordham University Law School and Dormitory at Lincoln Center

Vidaris has been providing energy modeling, Measurement and Verification plan, and LEED consulting services for the new Law School educational/ residential facility at Fordham University’s Lincoln Center campus in Manhattan. This 22 story building is comprised of educational spaces on the first 10 floors (classrooms, conference rooms, library, cafeteria), with a dormitory tower above.

Key sustainable features of the project include spectrally-selective glazing, efficient lighting with daylight dimming and occupancy sensor controls, high performance chillers and boilers, and a 100 KW gas-fired co-generation plant, which utilizes recovered heat for space heating, domestic hot water generation, and chilled water generation (through absorption chiller).

Green features include vegetated roofing and high SRI pavers to reduce the heat island effect, low water use plumbing fixtures and irrigation systems, extensive use of recycled content, regional, and FSC wood materials, low-emitting adhesives, sealants, paints, and carpet systems, and a high level of user control over lighting. The project has also incorporated extensive open space, and provided soil remediation to quality for the LEED Brownfield Redevelopment credit.

Vidaris' work has been cofunded by NYSERDA.

Ethical Culture Fieldston Middle School

Vidaris professionals provided energy and sustainable design consulting for this academic facility that accommodates 400 students and connects the Lower and Upper Schools. A new gymnasium adjacent to a large playing field houses a swimming pool, indoor courts, locker rooms, and an exercise room. The project's green goals and energy efficiency strategies were realized in collaboration with the building's design architect. The work was started before 2006, while Vidaris professionals were part of another company.

Cornell University - College of Human Ecology, Martha Van Rensselaer Hall North

Vidaris worked for Cornell through NYSERDA to analyze the energy use of North Martha Van Rensselaer Hall. The building provides laboratory, classroom, office, and commons space. The project also includes 86,000 square feet of ventilated garage.

Reducing energy use for the project made it eligible for incentive funding, achieving LEED credits, and complying with NYS EO111. Vidaris determined the final design for this predominantly laboratory project is 47% better than ASHRAE 90.1-2004. The design overcame a very challenging glazing system design and a constant volume exhaust system, and resulted in what are exceptional savings for a laboratory.

Cornell University - Weill Hall, Life Sciences Building

The Weill Hall building includes laboratories, offices, conference rooms and lecture hall space. Vidaris professionals performed energy and sustainability analyses. NYSERDA co-funded the energy/green work. The project was started when Vidaris professionals were part of another company.

Columbia University - Knox Hall

Columbia University's Knox Hall is a facility that includes classrooms, faculty offices, graduate student lounges and open offices. The professionals of Vidaris provided comprehensive sustainable design consulting services for both energy-efficiency measures and environmentally-responsible architectural measures. Their role followed the project from conceptual design phases through construction, including commissioning of MEP systems. Energy efficiency measures resulted in 23% lower energy costs than ASHRAE-required, per DOE-2 simulations. The professionals of Vidaris began work on this project while part of another company.

City University of New York - Hunter College School of Social Sciences & Dormitory

For the Hunter College School of Social Work Vidaris provided energy efficiency and LEED consulting services. The academic building houses faculty offices, classrooms, computer, nutrition & food science, and environmental science laboratories. The residential building features several notable green initiatives including low energy cost, per NYS Executive Order 111, exceptional water savings via the recycling of rainwater in the cooling tower, an extensive green roof and others.

City University of New York - Bronx Community College North Instructional Building

The project was the first new academic constructed since Bronx Community College moved to the University Heights campus in 1973. The new North Instructional Building replaces an existing parking area and completes the northern side of the historic Stanford White quadrangle. Vidaris assisted Robert A.M. Stern Architects and the project team in integrating numerous sustainable design practices and carefully selected interior finish products into the project. Building features include 27% energy savings below the ASHRAE 90.1 baseline, high-efficiency plumbing fixtures yielding water-savings by more than 40%, elimination of potable irrigation water through a rainwater storage tank and reuse system, diversion of 96% of construction and demolition waste, secured bicycle storage, and CO2 and occupancy sensor controls throughout the building. The project utilizes low-emitting products with minimal VOC emissions and formaldehyde emissions, and pursued an IAQ Plan during construction prior to flushing the building with fresh air prior to occupancy. Vidaris also worked with the administration to develop campus policies for low-mercury lighting and low-emitting vehicle for this other existing buildings.

Case Western Reserve University / North Residential Village

The North Residential Village (Village at 115) at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH consists of seven residence "Houses". Houses 1-4, 6 and 7 pursued LEED Certification with House 5 receiving a separate LEED Gold. The energy analyses results showed that Houses 1-4, 6 and 7 save a total of 37.76 percent in energy costs over the ASHRAE 90.1 - 1999, which is equivalent to 6 LEED energy points. House 5 saves 41.01 percent over the ASHRAE 90.1, which is also equivalent to 6 LEED energy points. The professionals of Vidaris began work on this project while part of another company.

Barnard College - The Diana Center

The Diana Center is a 96,000-square-foot multi-use building that establishes a new center for artistic, social, and intellectual life at the college. Vidaris has performed energy modeling, LEED/green consulting and commissioning.

Sustainable features include green space provided to compose of 36 percent of the site area and a 2,800 square foot green roof which reduces heat island effect and stormwater runoff. Water-use reduction totaled 30 percent through the use of efficient plumbing fixtures and paved surfaces with high Solar Reflectance Index values to reduce heat island effect. During construction, waste recycling exceeded 75 percent and numerous recycled and regional materials were incorporated into the design. Low-emitting paints, coatings, adhesives and sealants have been used and a Construction Indoor Air Quality plan was instituted during construction.

The project incorporates energy efficiency measures to exceed the requirements of the ASHRAE/IESNA Standard 90.1-2004, Appendix G, by approximately 14 percent.

Vidaris' consulting was cofounded by NYSERDA.