NEW PALTZ, NY — For students at the State University of New York at New Paltz, finding inspiration for making eco-friendly decisions is as easy as finding a place to go for the High Holidays. The town’s Chabad Jewish Student Center has gone green.
New York Jewish Center Goes Green During Construction Project
NEW PALTZ, NY — For students at the State University of New York at New Paltz, finding inspiration for making eco-friendly decisions is as easy as finding a place to go for the High Holidays. The town’s Chabad Jewish Student Center has gone green.
As renovations and an expansion project progressed at the Chabad House, Rabbi Moshe and Bracha Plotkin were researching some of the more sustainable options available in building materials and design. They quickly realized that the center – which provides everything from religious services to Torah classes to inspiring Shabbat and holiday meals – was sitting on a unique opportunity to reduce cost and help the environment at the same time.
“This turned out to be a win-win situation,” Bracha Plotkin said shortly after last month’s grand opening of the new center. “Time and again, we hear of environmentally-friendly measures costing the proverbial arm and a leg. It doesn’t need to be that way.”
The pro-earth campaign began serendipitously with a municipal order changing the building’s weight requirements. The conventional approach would have been to quadruple the number of support beams, but the project engineer suggested I-shaped beams made from compressed wood chips, a by-product of the milling process. The beams are stronger than solid wood and, because they are made entirely of pre-consumer waste, using them reduces the need for harvested lumber.
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oh ya stop global warming!
eli
what a waste of $ if you keep in mind that you shoulnt be paying for water since you should be tax free.
bp
keep up the good work we are proud of you