Versaprofiles Receives Project of the Year Award
The 1 Java Street project in Brooklyn, New York was selected as the Building and Construction Division Project of the Year of the Plastics Pipe Institute, Inc. (PPI) at its 2023 awards event. A distinct characteristic of the project is that it will be the largest mixed-use development in New York State to incorporate a geothermal system for heating and cooling when it is completed in 2025.
The geothermal system of the project will have 321 vertical boreholes drilled 499 feet into the ground. These will be space 15 feet apart with a 1.25 inch high-density polyethylene (HDPE) PE4710 pipe inserted into each. A total of 326,000 feet of plastic pipes were used in the boreholes with another 31,000 feet in various diameters used for lateral distribution.
Versaprofiles, the manufacturer of the pipe, received the Project of the Year award from the Building and Construction Division of PPI.