SUSTAINABLE Set Your House in Order

摘要

Newly ensconced on the eighth floor of a gracefully aging neo-Gothic Fifth Avenue tower, just below looming gargoyles, the 35 full-time New York employees of the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) often get a little chilly. Or too hot, depending on the vagaries of the radiant pipes that still line the 1912 building. Staffers have figured out which spots on the floor are a better bet, intel that's led to what IWBI president Rachel Gutter calls "the thermal comfort wars."