{"id":545795,"date":"2010-04-28T05:32:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T09:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864176.post-1190090990735224792"},"modified":"2010-04-28T05:35:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T09:35:21","slug":"silicon-valley-company-to-replace-every-window-in-the-empire-state-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/545795","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley company to replace every window in the Empire State Building"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Silicon Valley Mercury has an article on making the Empire State Building more energy efficient – Silicon Valley company to replace every window in the Empire State Building<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Some people don’t do windows. Kevin Surace does. In a very big way.<\/p>\n

The Silicon Valley CEO is about to oversee a green-building project on the most high-profile stage in the world when his company \u2014 Serious Materials, in Sunnyvale \u2014 begins replacing all 6,514 windows in the Empire State Building.<\/p>\n

And no, all that glass \u2014 an estimated 26,000 panes \u2014 will not be dumped into New York City’s trash bins.<\/p>\n

Instead, over the next nine months, laboring at night so as not to disturb tenants and tourists in New York’s 102-story Art Deco landmark at Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street, Surace’s workers will use a high-tech process to remove every window from its frame and separate the glass. Renovating roughly 50 windows a night, they’ll install a clear, mylar-like plastic sheath in between the double panes, then fill the windows with an argon-krypton gas, reseal them and rehang them.<\/p>\n

The result? Silicon Valley meets the Big Apple: windows that are four times more insulated than the old ones and will save $410,000 a year in heating and air conditioning costs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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