• We’re Gonna Have an Edible Schoolyard at PS 216
    Everyone knows I have a penchant for food -- wow, that’s an understatement for you -- and the best way to insure my coming to any occasion, event, meeting or happening is to include these words in the invitation: “Refreshments will be served, or Food!”Hearing that P.S. 216 will be hosting a walk-through of their proposed Edible Schoolyard (ESY), the magic word “edible” drew me to the school’s location at 350 Ave. X like a moth to a flame, a bee to honey, a fly to garbage. With the help of my former CEC21 colleagues Mr. Eng and Dr. Law, we transported this 300-pound hulk to P.S. 216 to partake in eating the Edible Schoolyard. [more]
  • Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Klein Announce 23 New School Buildings to Open For the Start of the 2009-10 School Year
    Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein today announced that 23 new school buildings with more than 13,000 seats will open at the start of the 2009-10 school year. This new construction, along with the 18 new buildings opened last year, represents the most-ever new classroom seats to come on line in a two-year period since the School Construction Authority was created in 1988. The new buildings were funded through the $13.1 billion 2005-2009 Capital Plan, the largest school construction effort in the City’s history. Between 2002 and 2012, the Department of Education is on track to construct more than 110,000 new school seats across the City, with more than 82,000 seats already completed. These seats will reduce pockets of overcrowding, and will ensure that students have the opportunity to learn in modern facilities fully equipped to prepare them for success. The Mayor and Chancellor were joined at the newly-constructed building for P.S. 65, an elementary school in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn, by Deputy Mayor for Education and Community Development Dennis M. Walcott, School Construction Authority (SCA) President Sharon L. Greenberger, Assembly Member Darryl Towns, and Principal Daysi Garcia. ...[more]

  • The Greenhouse Project Transforms NYC School's Vacant Rooftop

    The Greenhouse Project is the vision of NYC parents and educators to create environmental science laboratories on the vacant rooftops of NYC's public schools. The Manhattan School for Children (PS 333) in New York City's Upper West Side, has approval from the School Construction Authority (SCA) and is building a greenhouse that will include solar panels, a hydroponics' growing system, a rainwater catchment system and a weather station to educate the school's 700 students in biology, physics, earth sciences, and the living environment.

    Continue reading the plans for The Greenhouse Project's first greenhouse which will include everything from a vermicompost system to an evaporative cooling system and how, in a recession, the project will be funded. [more]

  • Gran Kriegel Associates' ECC 361: Modern Green Take on "Snyder School" in the Bronx
    The $37 million Early Childhood Center 361 is one of the first schools in New York City to be built pursuant to the School Construction Authority's Green Schools Guide and Rating System... [more]
  • 2008 "Beyond Green" High-Performance Building Award
    The School Construction Authority is pleased to announce that the New York City Green Schools Guide and related Standards Revisions was awarded the 2008 "Beyond Green" High-Performance Building Award... [more]
  • SCA Launches Vendor Access System!
    Contractors and suppliers can now complete new qualification and MWLBE certifications online.
  • Chief school builder is a seasoned city planner and Park Slope mom.
    When several families arrived at a Park Slope middle school for an evening basketball practice recently, they were surprised to find themselves locked out. The gym, they learned, had been closed without warning so that construction workers could make repairs. [more]