What we can learn from EwingCole and their net-zero building Unisphere


In Silver Spring, Maryland, the 135,000 square foot building pushes the boundaries of a net-zero building. With its completion in 2018, the building was built in collaboration with United Therapeutics, a biotech company, and Whiting-Turner Contracting. 

Unisphere. Image © EwingCole

Unisphere. Image © EwingCole

With the push for mitigating carbon emissions and improving sustainability efforts for new architectural projects, Unisphere approaches the task by implementing a mixture of technologies to have the building become fully sustainable.

Unisphere. Video © EwingCole

According to Marlene Cimons of Quartz, Unisphere consists of "thousands of devices feeding into a powerful computer "nerve center" that tracks energy use and coordinates heating, cooling, and other operations."A few examples of sustainability efforts are the windows that automatically darken when temperatures outside increase and the concrete labyrinth 12 feet underneath the building that acts as a passive heating and c...

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