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Apple Campus 2: the greenest building on the planet?
December 7, 2014
Apple Campus 2: the greenest building on the planet?
Apple claims its new California campus is the ‘greenest building on the planet’, but the performance data doesn’t stack up
Garrett Hering
Sunday 7 December 2014 12.00 GMT
Jerry Yudelson, president of the Portland, Oregon-based Green Building Initiative, likens sustainable architecture to sex.
“It’s all about performance, not promise. Show me your numbers,” Yudelson says.
A few years ago, Yudelson, together with German architecture critic and professor Ulf Meyer, asked hundreds of owners of the highest-rated new green buildings around the globe to reveal their actual performance data. Their request included details on measured energy and water use, which they would compare with other buildings.
Perhaps embarrassed that performance might not live up to promises, a lot of building owners propositioned by Yudelson and Meyer demured. But some did not. The results are presented in their book The World’s Greenest Buildings, published in 2013.
“We wanted to show that high levels of energy and water efficiency and high levels of aesthetics are not incompatible. Sort of like a beauty queen who can do higher math,” says Yudelson.
Read more at The Guardian.
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