The CityCenter site project sits on 67 acres with a total of 18 million square feet of mixed-use development. The project has underground circulation and infrastructure as well as a PeopleMover system. The project took five years to complete from conception to completion and involved 7 world class architects, 43 interior designers and over 200 consultants. The most sustainable element is the high-performance curtainwall, decorated with 14 kilometers of sunshades. Vidaris monitored the shop fabrication and installation of this curtain wall, coated glass, insulated glazing units and materials, all for compliance with approved shop drawings and specifications. Vidaris also witnessed field tests, mock-ups and conducted full time site inspection.

Residing on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, this beach front entertainment resort was designed with two nightclubs, a spa, ten pools, fourteen restaurants, and three live entertainment venues. There is also a casino and retail stores. The goal of the Revel Resort was to make it dramatic and memorable to all guests as well as to obtain an ocean theme based on its location. The top of the hotel will contain bright spot lights that shine upwards into the sky.

This 46-story, glass tower consists of 391 residential style guest rooms and 391 residential-like guest rooms and suites. It offers a panoramic view of the Statue of Liberty, the city skyline, and the Hudson River. The spa at trump encompasses over 11,000 sq. ft. and contains a state-of-the-art health club. Trump Soho has an outdoor roof deck with a pool that has private cabanas and a bar. This hotel also houses a world-class signature restaurant, an expansive wine cellar, conference facilities and well-appointed meeting rooms.

Its corner mansard roof a jaunty presence on Madison Avenue’s streetscape, The Mark at 77th Street first opened its doors in 1927. A suave Italian Renaissance design from the celebrated firm of Schwartz & Gross, the hotel was given a comprehensive interior renovation by the French designer Jacques Granges in 2009 and currently incorporates 10 cooperative residences in addition to 150 hotel rooms. Vidaris consulted on the replacement of all windows and the removal and infill of all PTAC units, matching the exterior brick of the landmarked building and completely cleaned the façades.

750,000 sf mixed use complex consisting of two towers over a 4-story commercial base. Hotel, residential, and office space, with parking for 500 cars.

This 50 story building has 9 hotel floors with 113 rooms and 32 residential floors with 60 apartments. Various amenities distributed on the lower 3 floors include a restaurant, a crystal pavilion bar, spa, and fitness and aqua centers.  The building also houses a branch of the New York Public Library occupying the first cellar floor and portions of the ground and second cellar floors.  Vidaris is working with the ownership design and construction team to provide LEED consulting, energy modeling, commissioning, and blower door testing on this new construction project.

The design includes furniture, fixtures, and equipment of the highest quality to reflect the prestige and heritage of the Baccarat brand.  Low-flow water fixtures capable of meeting high-end performance as well as aesthetic requirements were provided in the hotel, residential, and spa areas.  Construction materials were specified with recycled content and products were sourced locally to ensure project material goals were met.  Interior products were also specified with limits on volatile organic compounds (VOC’s) to ensure a high level of indoor air quality.  The library and restaurant spaces, to be built by third parties, will be directed by green tenant guidelines provided by Vidaris.  These guidelines will instruct those teams on how to best benefit from building-wide sustainable measures and provide guidance on how to achieve green building goals within those spaces that are consistent with the building overall goals. 

The energy analyses considered a broad range of measures, and judged them according to criteria of environmental effectiveness, usability, maintenance and contribution to (or detraction from) the enjoyment of the guests and of those from other buildings in vicinity, as well as cost effectiveness. The final items include Energy Star appliances in the residential apartments, occupancy sensors in most back-of-house spaces, premium efficiency motors, energy recovery wheel on the make-up outside air AHUs serving the hotel and residential floors corridors, heat recovery for heating the pool make-up water during the cooling season, high efficiency boilers, chillers, cooling tower and service hot water heaters, regenerative braking elevators.

The Proposed Design is estimated to perform 13 % better than the ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2007 Appendix G.  Vidaris' consulting is co-funded by the New York State Energy Research & Development Authority under the New Construction Program.

The 56th Street Hotel will be the second Firmdale Hotel in New York (the other is on Crosby Street). The 90-room property will be similar in style to the Crosby Street Hotel with large, warehouse-style windows up to 15 stories. Several suites will have private terraces and facilities will include a screening room. Vidaris is working with the architect, MEP, and owner (Stonehill & Taylor Architects and Flack & Kurtz and Firmdale Hotels) to perform an energy analysis, provide fundamental and enhanced commissioning services, and Measurement & Verification consulting services for the project.

Some sustainable features include a “green” roof, integrated storm water management system with rainwater collection and reuse on site for plumbing fixture water use, with a high percentage of recycled content, locally sourced materials, and materials which are low emitting of toxic chemicals, low-mercury lighting, and a green housekeeping plan.

Vidaris' energy analysis if the energy use of the building shows that these buildings achieve significant savings when compared with the LEED baseline. Energy efficiency measures include, among others: Occupancy Sensors in stairwells, laundry room, lockers and fitness room: Occupancy sensors control lighting fixtures to reduce lighting and cooling energy use; Variable Frequency Drives for hot, chilled and condenser water pumps: the VFD reduce the pumping energy use in part load conditions; Energy Star Equipment is specified for the commercial kitchen serving the hotel's restaurant; Waterside economizer providing free cooling when outside temperatures allow it; Regenerative braking elevators reduce the yearly vertical transportation energy use by 25%; Reduced exterior lighting power by 13%; Modulating flame heating boilers with 87.7% thermal efficiency and domestic water heaters with 83% thermal efficiency reduce the heating fuel oil use.