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efficiency and emissions standards begin to be applied more broadly across the city and <br />country. <br />HOUSING <br />Lido Beach Towers <br />Situated on the coastline of Long Island in Lido, <br />New York, Lido Beach Towers is an historic jewel of <br />the area. First built as a luxurious seaside resort in <br />1928, Lido Towers was renovated and updated into <br />a 186-unit apartment building in 2008 with <br />retrofitted EIFS. <br />In 2013, Hurricane Sandy, the second most costly <br />hurricane in United States history, decimated <br />communities in the northeastern U.S. As the storm <br />crossed over the island, it created a 15-foot storm surge of sand and debris that <br />destroyed several floors of the Lido Beach Towers' interior. Yet the exterior survived. The <br />EIFS retrofit had made the exterior strong enough to withstand hurricane -strength wind, <br />debris and rainfall. According to Gary Weiss, board president of Lido Beach Towers <br />during the five -year -long restoration project, "We never realized that we had built a <br />hurricane -proof building."2 <br />Public Housing — Baychester Houses <br />New York City's recently lauded redevelopment of <br />the Bronx's Baychester Houses incorporated many <br />different sustainability and resiliency elements. <br />An article from The New York Times, "A Rebirth in <br />the Bronx: Is This How to Save Public Housing?", <br />noted Baychester's redevelopment, "Today the <br />campus looks spotless...The buildings have been <br />reclad with a waterproof material and faux -wood <br />paneling;" this noted cladding is EIFS.3 There are other projects at development sites <br />2 https://blog.eima.com/the-remarkable-resiliency-and-durability-of-eifs <br />3 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/05/arts/design/bronx-public-housing.html <br />2 <br />