NYU Langone Health has recently received Performance Excellence in Electricity Renewal certification. PEER recognizes industry leaders for improving efficiency, day-to-day reliability and overall resiliency when it comes to severe events, such as flooding and hurricanes.
After Superstorm Sandy in 2012, NYU Langone rose to the challenge of becoming more resilient by implementing its vision of building a more unified campus that includes sustainable architecture, healthy interiors and energy management as key focus areas. NYU Langone has since become a leader in resilient and sustainable design, with a new combined heat and power plant, emergency generators and boilers in the building, as well as significant campus perimeter protection and flood prevention measures.
The PEER certification program is administered by Green Business Certification Inc., the global certifying body for several sustainability systems including the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED green building program. Like LEED, PEER was designed to grow with the market. PEER is for all power systems and includes guidance for cities, utilities, campuses and transit. The new version of PEER delivers a simple, streamlined system to document sustainability improvements to power systems at different levels.
