Unique Technology & Wellness
Charlotte of the Upper West Side sets a new benchmark for luxurious sustainable architecture with integrated state-of-the-art building systems designed to boost residents’ health, wellbeing, safety, and comfort
Airtight Envelope
The building’s architects, engineers, and development team went to extraordinary lengths to achieve Passive House Institute certification, which is known to reduce energy consumption for heating and cooling by up to 90 percent.
The quadruple layer, triple-paned windows are up to four times more energy-efficient than standard residential windows, providing constant year-round indoor temperatures.
On the coldest days, you could sit right next to the window without a heater or having to wear a thick sweater.
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Ventilation
The benefits of good indoor air quality include reduced respiratory problems, better sleep, higher productivity, and a general feeling of wellbeing.
At Charlotte of the Upper West Side, every residence has its own individual high-performance ventilation system with separate ducts to make the air inside your home as clean as possible. Most other buildings have only a single ventilation system for the entire building.
The state-of-the-art, Swiss-engineered energy recovery ventilation (ERV) system is engineered to deliver fresh filtered outside air to each room of your home.
13-28x
The ERV system exchanges your home’s entire volume of indoor air with freshly filtered outdoor air 13 times per day in normal-use mode. In boost mode, air is exchanged more than 28 times.
The system also maintains constant indoor temperatures and humidity levels year-round in your home.
Air Filtration
High-efficiency state-of-the-art filtration will purify the incoming fresh air entering each residence’s individual ventilation system, removing irritants and allergens including tobacco smoke, pollen, fine dust, and pet dander. Afterwards, UV light is used to eliminate nearly all viruses, bacteria, mold, and fungi. This creates unparalleled indoor air quality.
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The UV system has been engineered into all of the fresh air, ERV, and residential HVAC units in the entire building, including all common areas, with remote sensors to detect bulb outages. UV light is applied on the supply side of the units, which dramatically reduces or eliminates biological contaminant buildup on the heat-exchange fins and ductwork. This results in even cleaner air, with high long-term operational efficiency.
Sound Insulation
The residences are remarkably quiet, thanks to robust insulation on exterior walls and quadruple layer, triple-paned windows that virtually eliminate outside noise. Robust insulation between residences minimize floor-to-floor sound transmission.