Ten-year Sustainability Master Plan

Castle Village Owners, a five-building cooperative located in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, is seeking to become a more environmentally sustainable campus. This objective was prompted by New York City’s Local Law 33 of 2018, which requires property owners to display building energy scores beginning in 2020, and Local Law 84 of 2009, the city’s benchmarking law that imposes fines on property owners who do not meet established greenhouse gas emission targets. In light of these local laws, Castle Village Owners engaged the Capstone team to identify technology solutions that would optimize energy scores for its buildings and meet energy targets to avoid financial penalties, while maintaining high quality living for its residents. The Capstone team presented strategies and corresponding implementation steps to meet these goals through a 10-year sustainability master plan that outlines measures for the reduction of energy use-related carbon gas emissions.