The Empire State building, inaugurated and presented to the world in 1931 as a symbol of industrialized America that manages to overcome any crisis, becomes greener and cuts electricity consumption by 40%.
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himTHEempire state building, inaugurated and presented to the world in 1931 as a symbolic building of industrialized America that manages to overcome every crisis, becomes greener and cuts electricity consumption by 40%.
In fact, its owners, in relaunching the image of the building and its notoriety, want to make it modern and suitable for the needs of our times; for this they announced a renovation of the cost of 13 million dollars per improve the energy efficiency of the building and most of the works will be completed by the end of this year.
"When we took control, the building needed repair, it was out of order," he said Anthony Malkin, President of Malkin Holdings, which started the redevelopment and the project to make the famous building greener - We are doing the green renovation not because it is the right thing to do, but because it makes economic sense. If we do not reduce energy consumption we will lose money and we will be less competitive with China, India, Brazil and the other developing economy ”.
That way they will come energy consumption of the building was cut by 40%, but not only because by reducing energy costs the bills will be much less expensive (in total 4 million euros will be spent less) and in just three years it will be possible to repay all the costs of the restructuring.
Without considering the amount of CO2 saved, which correspond to those emitted by 40 thousand families or 20 thousand cars on motorcycles on the roads.
Verdiana Amorosi
