Hines has completed the concrete core and steel structure for Salesforce Tower Chicago, the 60-story, 1.2 million-square-foot office tower in downtown Chicago.
Hines also has released its Embodied Carbon Reduction Guide to educate the industry on embodied carbon and environmental protections and provide the tools and best practices to achieve the industry’s goals for carbon reduction.
Following the best practices outlined in the guide, Salesforce Tower Chicago is the first building in Chicago to require and measure Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) to quantify embodied carbon emissions of concrete, steel and other construction materials. This led to reductions of 27 percent in the production of concrete used and 9 percent in steel used, resulting in an overall reduction of 19 percent in carbon emissions for steel and concrete compared to the industry average. For Salesforce Tower Chicago, this equals a savings of more than 7 million kilograms (15.4 million