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Green Facts About New York’s New One World Trade Center
January 3rd, 2012
Tracey Schelmetic
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Upon its completion in 2013, New York’s One World Trade Center (colloquially known as the “Freedom Tower”), part of a complex currently under construction to replace and honor the World Trade Center Twin Towers and other buildings destroyed on September 11, 2001, will be the tallest building in the United States (Sorry, Chicago!) and one of the tallest buildings in the world. At the very top of the completed skyscraper, the radio antenna that will top the 400-foot spire will reach a symbolic height: precisely 1,776 feet high, in honor of the year of American independence.
But here are some things you may not know: once finished, One World Trade Center will be the most environmentally sustainable building of its size in the world. (Seven World Trade Center, which was completed and opened in 2006, was hailed as New York City’s first “green” office tower, but it will be dwarfed by its new companion tower.) For starters, the building’s designer intend for it to derive about 35 percent of its power from renewable energy sources. Once the building is fully operation, it’s expected to draw as much as 70 percent of its power from green energy: no small feat in a part of the world as densely populated as the New York metro area.
The building features a whole host of green elements, including:
Green port-a-potties.
During construction, workers are using composting toilets in place of the familiar, chemically smelly portable toilets. Essentially, their waste is being allowed to do what waste was meant to do: mix with other decaying biological products and create nutrient-rich soil. After workers make their “deposits,” the solid waste is channeled into a container half full of saw dust and worms: industrious and conscientious workers who quickly go to work turning the waste into composted soil. The water of urine is evaporated away, leaving only the faintest film of biological material. (Hope you weren’t eating lunch!) In addition to being more efficient, the toilets are smaller and easier to move than large chemical portable toilets: an important consideration when your workers need to answer nature’s call more than 1,500 feet off the ground. Once human waste – both of the liquid and solid variety – is fully processed, more than 90 percent of it is re-used, eliminating the need to constantly empty and re-plenish the water in traditional portable toilets.
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