Comments on: Empire State Building to Get Green Makeover, Saving $4.4M Per Year

By: Empire State Building Cleaning Up Energy Expenditures | Jim On Light

Empire State Building Cleaning Up Energy Expenditures | Jim On Light — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:01:12 +0000

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Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:51:01 +0000

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Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:39:27 +0000

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Unfill The Land Fill — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:36:45 +0000

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Gene — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:43:16 +0000

A 4.5 year simple (no interest on the $20 million investment) payback is not usually an atractive investment for commercial real estate owners.

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:18:56 +0000

[...] three years, in the NYT. Which raises the questionIf greening old buildings like that is so easy, why has it taken so long? at [...]

New Building Technology for April 7, 2009 « Askthefm’s Weblog — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:46:06 +0000

[...] Leading off is the greening of what might be the world’s most famous building, the Empire State Building. There are articles all over the web on this one, but the two best are at CleanTechnica (http://cleantechnica.com/2009/04/06/empire-state-building-begins-huge-energy-efficiency-retrofit/) and Earth2Tech (http://earth2tech.com/2009/04/06/empire-state-building-to-get-green-makeover-saving-44m-per-year/). [...]

Solar Power Lad — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:06:37 +0000

Sounds like a great plan. Also, with new building integrated photovoltaics, any new skyscrapers can be using all that glass to make electricity.

ben — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:11:36 +0000

Hope this is just the begining of retrofitting all the skycraper in New York, and subsequently all buildings in all major cities in the world ...