The NYC Green Awards
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BEST GREEN OFFICE BUILDING THAT MAY SOMEDAY DEVELOP SENTIENCE
Norman Foster's Hearst Tower
It may not be perfect, but Foster's gold-certified LEED office
building is a good place to start (even though we should've started 15
years ago) — or perhaps we just really want to talk about all the
cool features: rain catchment on the roof that serves to water plants
and replenish air conditioning; off-angle siting (so it's not square to
the adjacent buildings, providing more natural light); light sensors
that monitor (and reduce) interior lighting based on natural light;
activity sensors that control both lighting and computers; the use of
outside air for cooling and ventilation up to 80 percent of the year.
So yeah, one day the building will come alive and hunt down all its
non-green inhabitants, Hal style. Obviously.
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