On 42nd Street in midtown Manhattan, the Big Apple hubbub rushes past a large, fenced-off construction site that looks the same as the dozens of others around town. But the 54-story, crystalline-shell Bank of America Tower going up at One Bryant Park won’t be just another high-rise when it opens in 2008. The Durst Organization, its developer, is aiming for it to be the world’s greenest, most energy-efficient skyscraper. It’s aiming to earn the highest level of green-building accreditation, the platinum level of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System. The long list of twenty-first-century clean technologies being built ...
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