SLOATSBURG – Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of New York has won a $1 million Buildings of Excellence grant toward the development of its planned Residences at Sterlington in Sloatsburg.
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority grant will be for energy efficiency planning, said NYSERDA’s Director of Market Development, Patrick O’Shei.
“The Residences at Sterlington mass-timber structural systems, which reduce the embodied carbon. It is associated with the materials used in construction,” he said. “It will be using renewable solar energy. This building will have green roofs which are more energy efficient and will also have an energy recovery system in terms of recovering waste heat from the building. The heating and cooling of this building will be centralized and delivered from a closed loop geothermal system.”
This 735,000-square-foot, five-story structure will contain 645 market-rate housing units with over 1,000 people anticipated to be living there.
The estimated cost of construction is $162 million.
