برج بنك أوف أمريكا

Construction progress, 2005

Street level, January 2014

تصميم المبنى يجعله صديقًا للبيئة، باستخدام تقنيات مثل التزجيج عازل من الأسفل إلى السقف لاحتواء الحرارة وتعظيم الضوء الطبيعي، ونظام تعتيم ضوء النهار التلقائي.يحتوي البرج أيضًا على مياه رمادية النظام الذي يلتقط الإمطار. لإعادة استخدامها. يذكر بنك أمريكا أن المبنى مصنوع من مواد معاد تدويرها وقابلة لإعادة التدوير.[11] يتم ترشيح الهواء الداخل إلى المبنى، كما هو شائع، ولكن يتم تنظيف الهواء المستنفذ أيضًا.[12] برج بنك أمريكا هو أول ناطحة سحاب مصممة للحصول على شهادة البلاتين.الريادة في تصميمات الطاقة والبيئة .[11]

The Bank of America Tower is constructed using a concrete manufactured with خبث، a byproduct of فرن لافح. The mixture used in the tower concrete is 55% cement and 45% slag. The use of slag cement reduces damage to the environment by decreasing the amount of cement needed for the building, which in turn lowers the amount of carbon dioxide غازات دفيئة produced through the normal cement manufacturing process. Each ton of regular cement produced creates about one ton of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.[13]

Temperature control and the production of some of its energy are accomplished in an environmentally friendly manner for the tower. Insulated glazing reduces thermal loss, lowering energy consumption and increasing transparency. Carbon dioxide sensors signal increased fresh air ventilation when elevated levels of carbon dioxide are detected in the building. Conditioned air for the occupants is provided by multiple air column units located in the tenant space that deliver 50 °F air into a raised access floor plenum. This underfloor air system provides users with the ability to control their own space temperature as well as improving the ventilation effectiveness. When building churn occurs, workstation moves can be performed more easily with lower cost and less product waste. The cooling system produces and stores ice during off-peak hours, and allows the ice to melt to help cool the building during توزيع الحمل الكهربائي، similar to the ice batteries in the 1995 Hotel New Otani Tokyo in اليابان.[14] Ice batteries have been used since absorption chillers first made ice commercially available 150 years ago, before the invention of the electric light bulb.[15]

Water conservation features in the tower include waterless مباول، which are estimated to save 8,000,000 غال-أمريكي (30,000,000 ل) of water per year and reduce CO₂ emissions by 144,000 رطل (65,000 كـغ) per year (as calculated with the Pacific Institute water-to-air model).[16] The tower has a 4.6-megawatt توليد مشترك plant, which provides part of the base-load energy requirements. Onsite power generation reduces the significant electrical transmission losses that are typical of central power production plants.

The magazine تايم (مجلة) found out in August of 2013 that the Bank of America Tower used twice as much energy overall as the مبنى إمباير ستيت did, due to the large energy usage in the Bank of America Tower and the comparatively small occupancy rate of the Empire State Building.[17]

In summer 2013, the Durst Organization employed Brooklyn Grange Rooftop Farm to install and maintain two honeybee hives on the building.[18]

Height comparison to Bank of America Tower (center)

When comparing building height, only the structural height is used according to rules and regulations of the مجلس المباني الشاهقة والمساكن الحضرية.[19] Currently, the مبنى نيويورك تايمز and the مبنى كرايسلر are tied for the position of the third tallest buildings in New York City. With the architectural spire[20] included, the structural height of the Bank of America Tower is 1,200 قدم (370 م), making it the third tallest building in New York City (after One World Trade Center and the Empire State Building).

A formal ruling by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat has been released, confirming this.[21]