The air in JLL’s new offices on the 30th floor of 28 Liberty Street (once known as One Chase Manhattan Plaza) feels different than normal office air. It’s fresher.
There’s a reason for this: It’s been purified.
The brokerage integrated technology from AtmosAir Solutions that works with the office’s HVAC system to remove contaminants, dust particles, toxic mold, odors and bacteria and controls the humidity and carbon monoxide levels to make the air feel “pure,” according to the company’s website.
“We are compliant with ventilation code, but it goes beyond just adding outside air, since increasing ventilation increases energy,” Dana Schneider, a JLL managing director who leads its energy and sustainability division, told Commercial Observer during a tour of the new space. “Our balance instead is to meet and exceed minimum ventilation requirements, but more important than that is the controls that we have in place to manage the air temperature, the cubic feet per minute (which is the speed of the air ventilation), the humidity levels of the air and the combination of AtmosAir to purify the air.”
The new digs, which opened in July, will be the first office up for WELL certification, a roughly three-year-old ranking service by the International WELL Building Institute that tries to encourage healthy office designs and eco-friendly features. There are nine other projects—commercial and residential—seeking WELL certification in the city, according to the group’s website. (JLL’s rival—CBRE—was the first to receive certification in the fall 2013 at their global headquarters in Los Angeles.)
