HOUSTON: Will This Be Space City's Greenest Building?
It's one of the 122 beta projects worldwide using the new LEED v4 criteria and only the third building in the US to be pre-certified LEED Platinum in the latest standards. (It's like the people in the building are expending more energy than the building itself.) Meet Capitol Tower, the 35-story, 750k SF property that Skanska will build with the goal of its being Houston's greenest tower.
The Gensler-designed building includes 90% access to daylight (which makes it a tough place to play hide and seek, but we all need to make sacrifices), a high-performance building façade that significantly reduces solar gain, and a garage with occupancy lighting sensors and green rooftop. Skanska is demolishing an existing building at the site to prep for construction.
