The Empire State Building, a truly magnificent piece of historical American real estate development is set to drag the great city of New York into a greener 21st Century, courtesy of the Clinton Climate Initiative and its owners (for allowing the CCI to work its magic) including Anthony Malkin, President of Malkin Holdings and part-owner of the Empire State Building.
The Empire State Building and other buildings like it (decades old sky scrapers) have been recognised as the gas gusslers of the real estate world. Buildings account for some 80% of New York energy consumption, and 20% of the buildings consume 80% of that. This means that 20% of New York’s buildings are responsible for 64% of the city’s energy consumption.
