Tokyo, February 24, 2012 - Mori Building, Japan's leading urban landscape developer, announced today that Atago Green Hills MORI Tower operated by the company was certified as an "Outstanding Global Warming Countermeasure Office (Near-top-level Facility)" by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.

The certification is awarded to offices and buildings that meet the Tokyo Governor's Standards for high-level implementation of global-warming countermeasures. Certified offices will have their reduction obligation ratios eased, regarding the "Obligation for large-scale offices to reduce the total amount of greenhouse gas emissions" based on the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Environmental Protection Ordinance (enforced in April 2010).

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Atago Green Hills MORI Tower

The 42-story Atago Green Hills MORI Tower was completed in 2001 as a multipurpose building, mainly for office. In 2011, Mori Building launched its Energy WEB System to visualize energy usage amount of office tenants. By generating numerical measurements and hourly graphs, it enables tenants to check the results of their energy-saving efforts, such as increased reliance on natural sunlight and turning off unnecessary lights during lunch and at night, leading to much more power savings.

Based on a preliminary verification process conducted in 2010, Mori Building carried out a series of environmental-management and equipment upgrades, including advanced air-conditioning control and installation of chilled-water pumps. Such efforts played a key role in Atago Green Hills MORI Tower's recent certification as an Outstanding Global Warming Countermeasure Office.

  • To date, a number of facilities operated and managed by Mori Building have been certified as Outstanding Global Warming Countermeasure Offices:
  • Top-level offices: Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, Keyakizaka Complex and Grand Hyatt Tokyo (all three at Roppongi Hills; certified together as one office building)
  • Near-top-level offices: Omotesando Hills, ARK Mori Building, and Roppongi Hills Energy Center (operated by Roppongi Energy Service Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Mori Building)

Mori Building will continue to pursue innovative, reduced-impact initiatives under its "Vertical Garden City" concept of creating vertical urban profiles that free up land and are kind to the global environment, thereby enhancing the magnetic power of Tokyo.

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