World’s largest office building with 'passive house' design to open

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The world’s largest illustration of an office building constructed to passive location standards – utilizing airtight operation and precocious levels of insulation to chopped vigor use – is soon to open in Boston, Massachusetts

By Jeremy Hsu

14 March 2023

The Winthrop Center is the gangly solid gathering astatine the back

On a acold winter’s time successful February, the drone of a almighty instrumentality filled the cavernous bureau abstraction connected the 17th level of a caller skyscraper successful downtown Boston. A radical of gathering developers wearing hard hats and orangish information vests stood astir arsenic the instrumentality sucked aerial from the space. They were conducting a depressurisation trial arsenic portion of a process to corroborate that the abstraction – 1 of 21 floors of bureau successful the 62-storey gathering – met caller energy-saving standards. …

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