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Tower 185
PWC Tower
Building
Completed
2011
Office
All-Concrete
LEED Gold
200 m / 656 ft
50
2
560
10
7 m/s
116,000 m² / 1,248,614 ft²
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Construction Start
Completed
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Usually involved in the front end design, with a "typical" condition being that of a leadership role through either Schematic Design or Design Development, and then a monitoring role through the CD and CA phases.
The Design Engineer is usually involved in the front end design, typically taking the leadership role in the Schematic Design and Design Development, and then a monitoring role through the CD and CA phases.
The CTBUH lists a project manager when a specific firm has been commissioned to oversee this aspect of a tall building’s design/construction. When the project management efforts are handled by the developer, main contract, or architect, this field will be omitted.
The main contractor is the supervisory contractor of all construction work on a project, management of sub-contractors and vendors, etc. May be referred to as "Construction Manager," however, for consistency CTBUH uses the term "Main Contractor" exclusively.
Other Consultant refers to other organizations which provided significant consultation services for a building project (e.g. wind consultants, environmental consultants, fire and life safety consultants, etc).
Material Supplier refers to organizations which supplied significant systems/materials for a building project (e.g. elevator suppliers, facade suppliers, etc).
28 November 2016 - Event
Tower 185 was designed to meet office tenant demands while providing a pleasant and sustainable working environment. Through its shape, the tower allows 35% more individual office spaces than comparable high-rises, along with eight corners available for enclosed offices and 54 window-adjacent desks. The approach to the tower is via a wide public plaza surrounded by a six-story podium. The scale of the podium is intended to relate to the surrounding context.
The sustainable features of the building include: charging stations for electric vehicles; over 25% site coverage with planted greenery; and occupancy sensors to dim and control lighting. The façade of the building was designed to save conditioning energy while also connecting with the material vernacular of the city. A north-facing glass rotunda provides ample daylighting to the office floors, but avoids direct solar exposure.
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