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Paris, France will be home to the world’s greenest office building. Skidmore Owings & Merrill has unveiled plans for the Energy Plus building which will be built in the Gennevilliers area of Paris. It will have solar panels covering the roof, more than any other building in the world, and will produce enough electricity to power the heating, lighting and air condition need of the 5,000 tenants. it will even generate carbon credits. The building will be more high-priced to construct which will lead to higher rents, but tenants will not have to pay for electricity and the maintenance costs will be lower. The building’s cooling system will take water from the Seine and pump it around the offices. The project has the seal of approval from Bill Clinton, who endorsed the project at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting lats year.
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