345 Market Street
This new office building uses various sustainable design strategies to increase the building envelope’s efficiency and to reduce energy usage. Recycled and recyclable materials are used on the building’s skin and it’s interiors. The site was effectively a brownfield site.
KLP developed a life cycle costing analysis on energy savings for 5 design strategies: high performance glazing, fixed sun-shading, solar collectors, directed day lighting compared to a uniform baseline window arrangement, and a light-colored roofing membrane.
The quantitative data earned the project a 50,000 dollar grant from the Sustainable Energy Fund of Central Eastern Pennsylvania in 2008.
“This project talks about recycled materials and contained a life=cycle cost analysis – serious sustainability. It explores new ground, serving as a research project for other future buildings. It takes that next step, and addresses what we can do to make this type of building more sustainable, and unfortunately will not be built.” – AIA New York Jury
Date:
March 15, 2019