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The Empire State Building and Sears/Willis Tower
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April 22, 2010 – 6:30-8:00 PM
Program held at The Museum of Jewish Heritage
36 Battery Place,
New York, NY 10280
FREE, but RSVP required, RSVP to programs@skyscraper.org
1.5 AIA CEU credits available
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Empire State Building, New York
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Willis (Sears) Tower, Chicago
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Speakers
Anthony E. Malkin, Empire State Building Company
Adrian Smith, Principal, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
Gordon Gill, Principal, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture; CTBUH Awards Committee Chairman
Rohit Aggarwala, NYC Mayor's Office of Operations, Executive Director, Office of Long Term Planning and Sustainability
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, The Skyscraper Museum presents the program GREEN GIANTS that explores the urban aspect of environmental awareness. New York and Chicago lead the country in plans to reduce their carbon footprints, and both cities have recognized that retrofitting older buildings is key to a more sustainable future.
The Empire State Building, completed in 1931, and Chicago's Sears (now Willis) Tower, completed in 1974, each reigned as the world's largest office building and represented the design standards and state-of-the-art building technologies of its era. Today, the Empire State Building is an innovative case study for a retrofit by a team including The Clinton Climate Initiative, Johnson Controls, Jones Lang LaSalle, and the Rocky Mountain Institute. The Willis Tower retrofit is led by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture. By very different approaches, both efforts aim to make their buildings dramatically more energy efficient. A panel discussion on methods and urban sustainability follows.
The other giant, Willis Tower, has also undertaken a greening and modernization project designed by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture. The lessons of the Willis project have also helped inform AS+GG's Chicago Central Area Decarbonization Plan. AS+GG partners Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill lead this project to meet the goals of the 2030 Challenge for Chicago's Loop to reduce the area's carbon emissions. Their plan for the Willis Tower, which will reduce the building's electricity use by 80 percent and its water use by 24 million gallons annually, will be presented by Smith and Gill, to be followed by a discussion between both teams.
Earth Day 2010 will celebrate the intrinsic "greenness" of cities, as exemplified by New York and Chicago and their historical towers moving into the future.
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