2024-05-03T23:25:10-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150296510/nycha-is-challenging-designers-to-create-an-affordable-heat-pump-for-24-000-apartment-units Josh Niland 2022-01-27T17:23:00-05:00 >2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/82/8215f67454bc0091ced7a8474ed33fe0.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>A creative answer to one of the most pervasive issues in American public housing is being sought by one of the largest civic authorities in the country as the <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/179692/nycha" target="_blank">New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA)</a> has issued a challenge to design an affordable new all-electric heat pump for the 21st century.</p> <p>NYCHA has made design challenges a part of its program before. As <em>Grist</em> noted, the agency has previously issued similar challenges to older generations of industrial manufacturers, including a late-90s contest to design <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/20/nyregion/public-housing-efficiency-plan-step-1-get-new-refrigerators.html" target="_blank">more energy-efficient refrigerators</a> for its properties, which at the time, did not offer ample enough space for the appliances. A design from Maytag <a href="https://www.homeenergy.org/show/article/nav/refrigerators/page/2/id/1208" target="_blank">won the contest</a> and was widely adopted by a number of other regional housing authorities in order to reduce energy costs.&nbsp;</p> <p>Now, with the tragedy of this month&rsquo;s devastating&nbsp;<a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150293824/new-york-s-deadliest-fire-in-years-was-the-product-of-a-space-heater-and-mechanical-issues" target="_blank">Bronx apartment fire</a> in its recent purview, NYCHA is once again asking for help from the design community in solving a silent problem that has drawn <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/01/11/bronx-fire-safety/" target="_blank">increasing ...</a></p> https://archinect.com/news/article/86835362/cradle-to-cradle-innovation-challenge-2013-winners-reinvent-safe-sustainable-building-products Justine Testado 2013-11-18T13:59:00-05:00 >2014-08-18T17:16:54-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ug/ugthhc3p7zf7pil4.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute and Make It Right honored the winners of their Innovation Challenge on Nov. 15 at the Innovation Celebration in New York City. The challenge was established in 2012 as a chance for innovators to reinvent and respond to the issues on how building products are designed, manufactured, and consumed.</p></em><br /><br /><p>Starting from 144 applicants to 10 finalists, the jury chose four winners:</p><ul><li>1st place: bioMASON biobrick</li><li>2nd place: Ecovative Mushroom Insulation</li><li>3rd place tie: ECOR Universal Construction Panels and ROMA Domus Mineral Paints</li></ul><p>Ecovative is also the winner of the <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/84774322/mushroom-plastics-initiative-ecovative-wins-2013-buckminster-fuller-challenge" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">2013 Buckminster Fuller Challenge</a>.</p>