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May 2, 2007

The World's Most Sustainable Office Building (Part I)

If you take all of the office buildings in the world and compare their energy consumption and environmental impact, this building is the best in the world.

Or so one of the staff who works in this building tells me.

  • It has 18% of the water footprint per person of a normal office building.
  • It uses only 13% of the gas and 15% of the electricity.
  • It does not have an electronic or gas based air conditioning system, but the building maintains a comfortable temperature all year round (in one of this country's coldest cities).  How?  (more tomorrow)
  • The up front cost of this building was significantly higher than standard office buildings, but it will pay for itself after the first 10 years of operation - and then continue to save the city millions upon millions over time.

Where is it?

I won't reveal that until tomorrow. 

Any guesses?

Here's a hint ...

I'm going to speak at an event in Singapore at the end of May.  I don't normally "do" events about Internet Marketing anymore, but this will be the biggest such event ever - with over 5,000 in attendance.

I met the organizers of this event just a few blocks away from this building at their last event.

Tomorrow I'll reveal the building, and tell you about some of its amazingly clever features.