Deutsche Bank HQ
Deutsche Bank has announced plans to give its Headquarters in Frankfurt a “Green Overhaul” which will deliver:
- 55% Reduction in Energy Use
- 55% Reduction in Carbon Emissions
- 43% Reduction in Water Consumption
- While recycling 98% of all Construction Waste
The 155m high buildings, known as ‘Debit’ and ‘Credit’, house 100.000 m2 of office space and was first occupied by Deutsche Bank in 1984.
Some features that Imtech, in charge of carrying our the ‘Green’ modernisation, will implement include:
- Opening Windows for Natural Ventilation
- Low Energy Facilities for Heating & Cooling
- Intelligent Building Management System
- Water Saving Systems
- Grey Water Recycling
- Intelligent Lighting
When it is completed in 2010, Deutsche Bank plans to obtain a Platinum award from the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environment Design) program managed by the US Green Building Council.
This sounds like a great example of sustainability thriving in the financial crisis because it just makes better business sense.
But the real question is, can Deutsche Bank’s new HQ outscore another recently refurbished HQ in New York City (which LEED awarded the Highest Point Total in the world for any commercial interior) ?
More on Deutsche Bank HQ’s Modernisation at: Webwire, BusinessGreen, BuildingSustainability
Deutsche Bank’s Website: GreenTowers
Previous EvolvingChoice Article on Deutsche Bank’s new Middle East CSR Foundation
minor slip….. in case you are in the company of other sustainability activists, most of us refer to the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System™ as simply, LEEDs.
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So is it a noun? Is it kosher to say ‘a LEED was awarded?’ How about with grades? Can we use the phrase ‘Platinum LEED’ ?
By the way.. are there any competing standards you’re aware of? Or is LEED the only real standard for Sustainable Building in the US?
haha i wouldn’t say its kosher, just widely accepted? most of us would simply say its leeds-approved as a colloquial or casual way of saying they’ve been certified. you could probably say platinum class leeds, or leeds top class, although, being leed certified today or even the environmental ISO certification is already an accomplishment on itself.
we are in the midst of researching and rewriting a revised version of leeds,there are quite a number of loopholes, too many for a ecological metrics system. there are a number of other certification systems in the USA, and in europe as well. would you like the literature for that?
I don’t like the work of this year’s atsrit and I didn’t like the work of last year’s atsrit either. What’s up Deutsche? Why are you trying to make irrelevant statements by choosing female atsrits from troubled locations? what does that have to do with art? That’s politics.
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