Congratulations on your new home.  A great deal of effort was put into creating a safe, healthy, socially, and environmentally responsible apartment for you. 

We built this building to the LEED and WELL standards.  LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is a globally recognized green building certification system developed by the U.S. Green Building Council.  (USGBC)  It provides a framework for designing, constructing, operating, and maintaining environmentally responsible, and resource-efficient buildings.  Unlike LEED, which emphasizes environmental sustainability, WELL centers on people – aiming to improve physical and mental health through the built environment.  We reviewed all of our purchases with a WELL certified consultant for the project.

A team of professionals came together to do our best for you.  Two architects and their teams worked on the plans.  An additional architect, who is also a LEED Fellow, and his team led the green building activities and LEED certification process. 

Many engineers worked on the plans for this project:

·       Civil Engineer

·       Structural Engineer

·       Professional Engineer (PE) specializing in geotechnical engineering

·       MEP Engineer

·       Fire Protection Engineer

Several consultants worked on the project:

A master plumber and licensed inspector was a consultant on all of the plumbing aspects of the building, focusing on the places where different plumbing companies’ responsibilities overlapped or handed off.  He coordinated these aspects of the Domestic, Fire Sprinkler, HVAC, Domestic Underground, and Excavation to the street.

A former Jersey City Building Inspector, who is now in charge of another county’s building department, inspected our work before we went for the Jersey City Building Inspections, of which there were more than 20.

A state accredited engineer inspected all the structural aspects of the building, from all of the welding, to the pouring of the foundation, and the construction of the block walls that are the first level of the building, and the height of the building as a fire block for the fire escape.

More than 30 people who did not lift a hammer or use a broom came together to plan and check the making of this place for you.  The people that put it all in place are also extraordinary.  But I bet you can picture them.

I hope you and your family are happy here.  We had a lot of fun building it.

Jonathan Stanton