Several other hotel or resort projects have registered to follow the Green Building Council's construction standards.
The touches of the old are offset by the new; the theater will be the first in New York to meet the environmental standards of the United States Green Building Council, a construction-industry group, Mr. Durst said.
An additional 69 supertalls are under construction, the council estimates.
Graham Watts, chief executive of the construction industry council, told MPs on the cross-party children, schools and families select committee that the industry was facing a massive slump.
But a vote is coming on a measure that would halt billboard conversions and new construction while council members try to get a handle on things.
"We feel the agreement that we signed may be null and void," said Ed Malloy, president of the construction trades council, whose members will build sets and prepare other facilities inside and outside Madison Square Garden, where the convention will be held.
The stone from the mansion was transported to Aberdeen and used in the construction of council houses.
The construction of council housing, Shek Kip Mei Estate, in 1953 was a response to the massive slum fire in the same locality.
Other industries such as printing, light engineering, metal casting, carpeting and dairying continued, many taking old premises from the cloth mills and others being sited at the new Marston Road Trading Estate which led to growth after World War II, including the construction of council houses.
Also, we drew from materials and approaches of Building Trades United to Ignite Less Tobacco (BUILT a project of the Labor Occupational Health Program at the University of California, Berkeley and the state building and construction trades council of California [ 27].
