Firm To Create 'Green' Campus at Navy Yard

BROOKLYN, NY-SurroundArt has retained the firm Steven Kratchman Architect PC for the company’s new “green” Museum Resource Campus currently under construction at the Brooklyn Navy Yard . Expected to open in the fall, the three-building campus includes a new 89,000-sf building on Perry Avenue, now in construction; another 71,000 sf in Building Three at the Navy Yard; and the adaptive re-use of the historic, century-old Paymaster Building.

With an emphasis on green design, the new Perry Avenue building, designed by Stantec Architecture, will be the first-ever multi-story, multi-tenanted LEED Silver Industrial Building in the US, according to a prepared release. The New York City-based Kratchman firm has been asked to design and unify the new SurroundArt campus with an emphasis on sustainability.

A SurroundArt source tells GlobeSt.com that sustainable elements at the new Perry Avenue building will include plentiful bike racks, an energy star rood with high insulation materials, and waterless urinals. They also note that low volatile organic compounds will be used, there will be high energy windows, and wind turbines on the roof. “Alternative energies will be evaluated,” the source explains.