EDGE East Side Berlin is one of Germany’s healthiest high-rise buildings. Centrally located, within meters of the Warschauer Straße metro station, and connecting two of Berlin’s most vibrant and artistic suburbs: Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg. Built with the careful and conscientious application of leading sustainability practices, from the use of circular products and VOC-free materials to world-class energy management, […]
Conceived as a new destination for the West End, 105 Victoria Street is a mixed-use development that will pioneer innovations in sustainability, provide spaces that enhance wellbeing and reinstate a sense of community in London’s Victoria. This development’s world-class office accommodation has been designed to be flexible and long-life to accommodate rapidly evolving ways of […]
Brookfield Place Sydney has transformed the central Sydney CBD district around Wynyard station into a vibrant and modern mixed-use precinct. The building’s centrepiece is a 27 level PCA Premium Grade and 6 Star Greenstar office tower providing ~59,000 sqm of space with world-class facilities, amenities and finishes. The development completed in the first half of […]
The General Motors Building is a 50-story, 705 ft office tower at 767 Fifth Avenue at Grand Army Plaza on the southeast corner of Central Park, in Manhattan, New York City. The building features 1.9 million square feet of Class A office space in the coveted Plaza District of Midtown Manhattan. Each of the building’s […]
One Museum Place is a 1.4 million-square-foot, 60-story prime office tower with a six-story retail podium in Shanghai. Located next to the Natural History Museum and Jing’an Sculpture Park, One Museum Place is a Gensler-designed addition to the Jing’an skyline. The six-level, 228,378-square-foot (93,786 NRA) lifestyle-oriented retail podium features a variety of food and beverage […]
In addition to tracking utility performance, each building at Boxer Property receives an annual inhouse ASHRAE-level audit (Level 1, 2, or 3) based on an energy checklist. The audit results are tracked over time through the in-house-developed Boxer Energy Sustainability Tracking (BEST) program, which compares a building’s efficiency to internal benchmark standards. The program gives […]
In January 2017, WashREIT commissioned an energy audit to review current equipment and operations at 1776 G Street, a 270,000 square foot Class B office building originally constructed in 1978. Recommendations from the audit included replacing common area lighting with LED bulbs, installing two VFDs, implementing a more efficient warm-up and cooldown process, reprogramming the […]
The Tower Companies (Tower) initiated real-time energy monitoring as part of an operational energy management strategy across their commercial portfolio in 2012, including at Blair Office Building, a multitenant Class B/C office building built in 1963. By focusing on operational changes for this program, there has been no need for construction, tenant disruption, or large […]
When Akridge acquired a building that was built in 1963, the number one complaint from tenants was regarding the induction units that provided heating. Instead of replacing the systems, building engineers walked through the property and cleaned and retrocommissioned each unit. Building system tune-ups were a lower-cost option than completely replacing the heating units, and […]
To overcome the challenges of older buildings and costs to implement energy efficiency, Compass Properties follows the 80/20 rule, where 80% of the performance will generally come from about 20% of the work or investment. Compass recognizes that it can’t do all things all the time, but when it does, it has to focus on […]