Architects - Alberts
VanHuut
1983 design, 1986
completed
The ING Bank Head Office complex was designed to
take advantage of natural systems. The
result is a building that uses less than a tenth the energy of its
predecessor and a fifth that of a conventional new office building in
Amsterdam. The
project was built at a cost equal to that of a conventional office.
Although the original decision to pursue
this design philosophy was based on the expected energy savings,
the drop in absenteeism paid for the energy saving measures in 3
months.
This building contained the following
features
- 500,000sq.ft.
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Passive
solar heating and ventilation
-
Daylight
office and atria
-
qMajor
energy reduction
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qAbsenteeism
dropped 15%
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10 towers over
parking
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Integrated art
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Flexible and
adaptable space design
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