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World’S Tallest Passive House
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Jul 15 2015 12:55 PM | eds in Green Living
Cornell Tech is building an applied sciences campus,
. . . on Roosevelt Island in New York City.
A 250 foot tall residential high rise dormitory building, designed to house,
. . . 520 people when it’s completed in 2017,
. . . the dormitory will be the tallest Passive House building in the world.
Meeting Passive House standards, costs about,
. . . . . . 5% more money than normal construction.
But the dormitory will use as much as,
. . . . . . 70% less energy for heating and cooling during its lifetime, and save,
. . . . . . 882 tons of CO2 each year .
07-15-2015 Source: World’s Tallest Passive House
. . . on Roosevelt Island in New York City.
A 250 foot tall residential high rise dormitory building, designed to house,
. . . 520 people when it’s completed in 2017,
. . . the dormitory will be the tallest Passive House building in the world.
Meeting Passive House standards, costs about,
. . . . . . 5% more money than normal construction.
But the dormitory will use as much as,
. . . . . . 70% less energy for heating and cooling during its lifetime, and save,
. . . . . . 882 tons of CO2 each year .
07-15-2015 Source: World’s Tallest Passive House
