Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y., has completed a $21 million resiliency and efficiency project, according to an article on the Brooklyn Daily Eagle website. 

The renovations will help protect critical equipment from extreme flooding, save the facility $1.5 million in annual energy costs and reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions by more than 7,000 tons a year, the article said.

“Superstorm Sandy showed us the importance of proactively strengthening our infrastructure — especially our healthcare facilities — so it is more resilient to extreme weather,” said Gov. Andrew Cuomo. 

The New York Power Authority began energy efficiency improvements at the hospital in early 2012, but when Superstorm Sandy hit that fall, the hospital was severely damaged and the project was delayed. Once work resumed, New York Power made the energy efficiency upgrades and repaired and fortified the location of the boiler plant to help prevent future flooding. 

Read the article.