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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Thermal Mass - A material used to store heat,
thereby slowing the temperature variation within a space. Typical thermal
mass materials include concrete, brick, masonry, tile and mortar, water
and rock.
Triple Bottom Line - According to the World
Business Council for Sustainable Development, “Sustainable development
involves the simultaneous pursuit of economic prosperity, environmental
quality and social equity. Companies aiming for sustainability need to perform
not against a single, financial bottom line, but against [this] triple bottom
line.”
