Tampa bay Busines Journal :Tallest office building in Tampa is now green

[Adam Fritz]

Article in Tampa bay Busines Journal

The 100 North Tampa office tower has been accredited by the Green Building Certification Institute.

It took 12 months for the 42-story building, downtown Tampa’s tallest, to be certified as silver, said Bryan Lauer, a broker and LEED accredited professional at CLW Real Estate Services Group, which manages and leases the building owned by Prudential Insurance.


It’s the second local existing office building to achieve green certification.

USAA’s southeast regional office in Tampa was certified last year. That 7-story, 523,558-square-foot office building at 17200 Commerce Park Blvd. was built in 1993.

The 100 North Tampa building, constructed in 1992, retrofitted 173 faucets, 140 toilets and 14 showerheads, along with the air conditioning system’s cooling tower to save 2 million gallons of water annually, Lauer said.

Roughly 74 percent of the building’s 311,165 pounds of trash — including paper, cans and bottles — were recycled between March 1 and May 31, the period tracked by the team. The CLW team will continue to track these efficiencies, Lauer said.

To improve indoor air quality, the building now uses higher quality air filters.

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