Green-building project – Company to replace every Empire State Building window

The Silicon Valley company is about to oversee a green building project on the most high profile stage in the world when his company – “Serious Materials”, ibegins replacing all 6,514 windows in the Empire State Building.

And no, all that glass (an estimated 26,000 panes) will not be dumped into New York City’s trash bins.

Instead, over the next 9 months, laboring at night so as not to disturb tenants and tourists in New York’s 102 story Art Deco landmark at Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street, Surace’s workers will use a high-tech process to remove every window from its frame and separate the glass. Renovating roughly 50 windows a night, they’ll install a clear, mylar-like plastic sheath in between the double panes, then fill the windows with an argon-krypton gas, reseal them and rehang them.

The result? Silicon Valley meets the Big Apple: windows that are four times more insulated than the old ones and will save $410,000 a year in heating and air conditioning costs.

source: http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_14671793

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