Located at One Bryant Park, the Bank of America Tower is the first skyscraper with the first LEED Platinum certification from the US Green Building Council. One of its most acknowledgeable achievements is “to merge the ethics of the green building movement with a 21 century aesthetic of transparency and re-connection”.

The tower is said to represent the next generation of buildings with high economic, environmental and human health performance. It has a clean-burning, on site, cogeneration plant which satisfies about 65% of the building’s electricity needs annually and lowers daytime peak demand by 30%. Its thermal ice storage also helps reduce peak load by producing ice at night and melts the ice for cooling during daytime. The building utilizes rain and snow for flushing toilets and for the cooling towers, saving approximately 7.7 million gallons of potable water annually.

The indoor environmental quality is of hospital grade with 95% filtered air and abundant natural daylight. Solar heat is minimized by its clean, floor-to-ceiling high-performance glass curtain wall. Together with the help of an automated daylight dimming system, the building saves lighting and cooling energy by up to 30%. The Bank of America Tower is a sustainable high performance green building with optimum efficiency and takes responsibility to environment.

Source

https://www.durst.org/properties/one-bryant-park

Sustainability Overview

https://www.durst.org/uploads/property_sustainability_overview/OBP_SustainabilityOverview.v2.pdf