Good House Keeping! Hearst Tower Achieves Highest Green Building Rating, LEED Platinum

One of the challenges of green buildings is making sure they work. You can buy the fanciest air conditioners, installed the most efficient windows, even recycle the toilet water in the drinking fountains, but if building owners do not monitor their energy use, the big-time green investments can be as bad as in conventional buildings.

Just as it might tend a photo shoot or test a recipe, Hearst has been tweaking the systems at its Eighth Avenue headquarters since it opened in 2006. Thanks to the media giant’s efforts, the building, the first LEED Gold building in the city, has earned LEED Platinum status for building maintenance, essentially upgrading the building to the highest level of sustainability practices. Read More