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In 2025, carbon emissions reporting went well. But 2030? “It’s going to be a real scramble”

A Q&A with Mariel Hoffman, EN-POWER GROUP’s Director of Energy Engineering, on trends she saw in the first year of Local Law 97 filings

Hannah Berman

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Can New York be a passive city? We surveyed the experts

A Q&A with three passive house experts on how passive prin­ci­ples can be imple­mented in New York City

Alice Sun

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“If you have a pulse on what’s going on, you don’t lose a building”

A Q&A with prop­erty manager Desi Ndreu on the value of commu­ni­ca­tion, and how prop­erty manage­ment is responding to the need to decarbonize

Hannah Berman

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“It’s a very game-like problem: You’re trying to build things, and there are obstacles”

A Q&A with Richard Reiss, devel­oper of decar­boniza­tion board game Energetic and founder of City Atlas

Hannah Berman

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“You have to break it down so that it can be understood by a third grader”

A Q&A with Martin Robertson, a Brooklyn-based facil­i­ties manager, on how to push for progress in a big building

Hannah Berman