North America’s Tallest Building Has Green Plans
Just over two years ago, the owners of Chicago’s Willis Tower, formerly called the Sears Tower, announced a plan to modernize the building in order to make it significantly more “green.” Then, for a while, the process was log jammed due to a lawsuit. The owners of the Willis tower were reportedly rethinking whether they even still wanted to go through with the 350 million dollar procedure, given the complications that arose.
Thankfully, the situation has worked itself out, and the renovations are now underway; and they are bold indeed. All 16,000 windows of the 110-story skyscraper will be replaced with more energy-efficient ones that will reduce heating costs by an estimated 60 percent. The energy that the building does consume will come more frequently from green sources like solar panels. But solar pv installers won’t be the only crews on the Willis Tower’s roofs this year. Construction crews also plan to install wind turbines and natural areas more than 60 stories above the city of Chicago.
On the interior, the escalators and elevators will be remounted. The building will rely more heavily on natural sources of light and water, rather than artificial ones. All in all, designers expect the tower to use 80% less electricity when the changes are done, making this one of the most ambitious (and potentially most important) green renovations of an already-standing building in the history of architecture.
Mayor Daley, the former mayor of Chicago, made it one of his goals to make the city the greenest in the world. Though Mayor Daley is now Mayor Emmanuel, the green outlook for the city seems to have remained quite the same.
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