Publishing magnate Hearst has made its  new Hearst Tower a truly eco-friendly office space.

MSNBC writes

Ninety percent of its steel is recycled. It uses 26 percent less energy and 10 percent less water than a conventional office building. Sensors detect when a room is empty and automatically turn off the lights and computers.

“From the very start, we looked at this as a home renovation,” said Brian Schwagerl, who oversees sustainability initiatives as the publishing giant’s director of real estate and facilities planning.

The tower recently became the first truly green office building in NYC when it was given LEED Gold statue by the U.S. Green Building Council.

The LEED program evaluates buildings on six criteria: the sustainability of the construction site; the building’s water efficiency, energy and atmosphere, materials and resources, and indoor environmental quality; and the project’s overall innovation and design process.

New York as a whole has taken a lot of great green strides recently. To read the entire article about the Heart Tower and its green turn, check out this article from MSNBC. 10_percent, construction_site, conventional_office, Eco Friendly, Eco Friendly, gold_statue, Green Architecture, Green Architecture, Green Design, Green Design, heart, LEED, magnate, msnbc, ninety_percent, North America, North America, office_building, office_space, sustainability_initiatives, s_green, water_efficiency