The Skyscraper Museum is devoted to the study of high-rise building, past, present, and future. The Museum explores tall buildings as objects of design, products of technology, sites of construction, investments in real estate, and places of work and residence. This site will look better in a browser that supports web standards, but it is accessible to any browser or Internet device.
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Orientation - The position of a
building relative to the points of a compass. Energy consumption in a building
can be reduced by proper orientation of the building’s window areas.
Ozone (O3) - Ozone is a greenhouse gas present
in the stratosphere and the troposphere. In the stratosphere, ozone provides
a protective layer shielding the earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation.
In the lower atmosphere ozone is a pollutant that causes respiratory problems
and is an ingredient of smog.
