The Empire State Building, debatably the world’s most famous office tower, is 1,472 vertical feet of momentous American real estate. It also contains 2.8 million square feet of office space; construct to the energy competence standards of the early 1930s. So when Anthony Malkin took over organization of the building several years ago, he also innate an $11 million annual energy bill and a problem: How could he turn the iconic but aging building into a 21st-century office tower?
Now, a comprehensive $13.4 million force retrofit is slashing the Empire State Building’s energy expenditure by nearly 40 percent and dipping greenhouse gas emissions by 105,000 metric tons over the next 15 years while trimming $4.4 million from annual energy costs.
We took a actual look at what such a massive and important project looks like, starting in a not special corner of the fifth floor where the Empire State Building is turning two-decade-old glass into future dollars.
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