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Meet the 'world's greenest building': One Angel Square

Meet the 'world's greenest building': One Angel Square

The Manchester, England, building earned the highest score ever given by BREEAM. 


By BD+C Staff | December 4, 2013

The 500,000 sf, 14-story One Angel Square in Manchester, England, is being promoted as "the most environmentally-friendly building in the world."

The structure earned a Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) score of 95.16%, the highest score ever given by BREEAM.

Features include earth tubes for heating and cooling, double-skinned facade and rainwater harvesting. 3DReid was the architecture firm behind the project.

(http://sourceable.net/is-this-the-worlds-greenest-building/)

 

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