A "Green" World Trade Center

One World Trade Center’s Bomb-Proof Base Gets New “Green Tech” Glass Panels

Posted By Sherrell Dorsey On February 18, 2013 @ 10:27 am In Architecture,Green Building,Manhattan 

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We’ve been following the progress of One World Trade Center ^[5] closely, and this weekend we were excited to see some of the first signs of sustainability pop up at the construction site. More than 2,000 state-of-the-art, “green technology” glass panels are being installed on the street level podium wall of 1 WTC ^[6], which is scheduled to be complete by the end of the year. These high-performance panels are double-paned and made with a frosted coating for absorbing sunlight and minimizing heat gain.

      

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“This [glass] has much more high-end lighting behind it, it’s much more efficient from an energy point of view, and it also has a third dimension to it,” said Steven Plate, the Port Authority’s ^[8] director of World Trade Center Construction to the Tribeca Citizen ^[9].
The building base is also impressively built to withstand up to 900 pounds of TNT and is made from a type of concrete known as iCrete ^[10], which is mixed in Brooklyn and must arrive on-site within 90 minutes. This new concrete also has the ability to withstand an astounding 14,000 pounds-per-square-inch (psi) of pressure.
The European-made green glass will cover the entire ground level of the 186-foot base of the new “bomb-proof” building, and will be just a portion of 1 WTC’s sustainability initiatives. The new shiny green panels will enclose the concrete mix of materials used to rebuild the World Trade Center, which will be the toughest structure ^[11] ever created in New York  City.
Via World Trade Center ^[12]

       

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