뉴욕시 , 빌딩에 부딪혀 죽는 새들 보호하는 건축 정책 승인 VIDEO: New York City Passes Country’s Most Wide-ranging Bird-friendly Building Legislation

New York City Passes Country’s Most Wide-ranging Bird-friendly Building Legislation

(New York City, N.Y., December 10, 2019) Today, the New York City Council approved Proposed Initiative 1482B — to date, the most broad-reaching bird-friendly building policy in the country. It is expected that Mayor Bill de Blasio will sign the bill into law. The new policy requires that new buildings’ materials meet bird-friendly standards that greatly reduce collision risks to birds. The policy also covers major renovations that include modifying existing glass, and applies to construction across the city’s five boroughs. 

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뉴욕시 , 빌딩에 부딪혀 죽는 새들 보호하는 건축 정책 승인    오늘 뉴욕 시 의회는 미국에서 새들에게 친숙한 건축 정책인 1482 B안을 승인했다. 빌 드 블라시오 시장이 법안에 서명하여 법률로 제정될 것으로 예상된다. 새 정책에 따르면 새 건물의 3D자재는 새들의 충돌 위험을 크게 줄여 주는 새 친화적인 기준에 부합해야 한다. 이 정책은 또한 기존의 유리를 개조하는 것을 포함한 주요한 개조 작업을 다루며, 시의 5개 자치구 공사에 적용된다. "새로운 환경에 적합한 건물 디자인을 추가적이나 부수적인 것으로 보아서는 안된다."라고 미국 조류 보호를 위한 유리 충돌 프로그램 디렉터인 크리스틴 쉐퍼드 박사는 말했다.  "열, 빛, 그리고 심지어 보안까지 통제하는 많은 전략들도 새에게 친숙할 수가 있다. 이는 거의 모든 빌딩 형태에 적용될 수 있지만, 추가 비용을 최소화하기 위해 처음부터 프로젝트 설계에 포함되어야 한다. 그래서 이런 종류의 입법이 중요한 것이다." 황기철 콘페이퍼 에디터 큐레이터 Ki Chul Hwang, conpaper editor, curator

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“Bird-friendly building design should not be seen as an add-on or an extra,” said Dr. Christine Sheppard, Glass Collisions Program Director for American Bird Conservancy. “Many strategies for controlling heat, light, and even security can be bird-friendly strategies, too. These can be incorporated into almost any building style, but should be built into project design from the outset to minimize additional costs. That’s why this kind of legislation is so important.”

The following consortium of partners worked directly with the City Council, providing background on the problem of bird-glass collisions and insight into materials and design solutions: American Bird Conservancy (ABC), New York City Audubon (NYC Audubon), the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIANY), the Bird-safe Buildings Alliance, and architects representing FXCollaborative and Ennead Architects.

“This bill is a compromise forged by our diverse consortium, which wrestled with and reconciled competing interests of many sorts — design, light, height, use, location, cost, bird mortality…. It’s a huge leap forward for long-term conservation,” said Kathryn Heintz, NYC Audubon Executive Director. “It will reduce collisions and save migratory birds whose numbers are declining dramatically. As a whole community, we must do better for the future, better for the sustainability of urban living, and better for the health of both birds and people.”

Bird-friendly building design/collisions.abcbirds.org

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“It’s our ethical responsibility as members of the building industry to address the role of glass in bird population decline,” said Dan Piselli, AIA, LEED AP, CPHD, Director of Sustainability at FXCollaborative. “This informed our strategy for renovating the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in 2013.” Once identified by NYC Audubon as the city’s top bird-killing building, it was renovated with the goal of not only making the facility more transparent and welcoming, but also making it bird-friendly. New glass incorporated patterns that birds perceive as an obstacle and that also reduce cooling costs. Bird deaths have dropped by 90 percent and the building now uses less energy since the renovations were completed.

"The materials and techniques that prevent bird collisions are already commonly used for a variety of reasons in our buildings; this legislation mandates their use in ways that also protect birds in cost effective ways,” said Benjamin Prosky, Assoc. AIA, Executive Director of AIANY and the Center for Architecture. “AIANY and its members are proud to have fought for this commonsense bill."

A recent study published in Science reported that the U.S. and Canadian breeding bird population dropped by more than one-quarter since 1970. Glass collisions are one major cause of this loss, killing up to 1 billion birds in the U.S. each year. According to NYC Audubon project Safe Flight, 90,000 to 230,000 birds die each year during their migrations through New York City alone. Fortunately, both home and commercial windows can easily be made safe for birds. Get resources and ideas for solutions here.

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