Adrian Smith chosen for positive-energy project in Abu Dhabi

AS+GG teamed with Chicago-based MEP engineers Environmental Systems Design and structural engineers Thornton Tomasetti on the design, which includes numerous systems that will generate a surplus of the building's energy, eliminate carbon emissions, and reduce liquid and solid waste. The complex will utilize sustainable materials and feature integrated wind turbines, outdoor air quality monitors, and one of the world's largest building-integrated solar energy arrays. Compared with typical mixed-use buildings of the same size, the headquarters will consume 70% less water.

In addition to being the first mixed-use net positive energy building in the world, AS+GG's Masdar Headquarters will be the lowest energy consumer per square meter for a modern Class A office building in an extremely hot and humid climate, and will be the first building in history to generate power for its own assembly, through development of its solar roof pier before the underlying complex.