The 691-foot tower's office space uses 65% less energy to heat and cool than similar buildings.
Winthrop Center in downtown Boston. The office spaces are the first certified as 'passive house' design in the city.
The 812,000 square-foot Winthrop Center office space passed multiple tests to ensure walls and windows insulate the building efficiently. The insulation and air-tightness are the main reasons the building uses 65% less energy to heat and cool compared to similar buildings. Jeffries said the biggest challenge was to adapt a concept created for smaller residential homes to a large-scale office building. For example, the team had to engineer windows large enough for views and also thick enough to insulate the building. The solution was to design windows with three layers of glass.
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