• China’s Pearl River Tower will be the world’s tallest Zero Energy Building

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    Skyscrapers are shooting up all over the world making sure their heads that pop up on the horizon remain green. To top them all, China will now have the world’s greenest skyscraper. This fall, the Pearl River Tower in Guangzhou, China will open its doors to the world. Soaring 71 stories high, this 2.3 million square foot building has its green features set right and boasts of a rainwater collection system which uses solar water to provide hot water for the building. The building will be the world’s tallest Zero Energy Building. These type of buildings generate more power than that they consume from the grid. This will be the first building that will use wind turbines incorporated into the body of the building and functional at lower wind speeds. The building also uses photovoltaic panels on its outer layer that absorbs and retains juice from the sun. The Pearl River is also the largest radiant-cooled office building in the world using raised floor ventilation, heat sinks, and vertical vents.


    The Pearl River Tower boasts of a whole load more that we need to look out for this fall.
    [Solarfeeds]

    Posted in Topics:Architecture, Tags: , on March 4, 2010