Tour: One Vanderbilt: LEED Platinum Leadership + Energy Transition

Monday, October 19, 2026 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM · 2 hr. 30 min. (US/Eastern)

Tour: Additional Ticket Required

Information

Go behind the scenes of a LEED Platinum v2009 / LEED Goldv4 C+S high-rise to explore how advanced engineering, smart controls, and operational strategy come together in real-world building performance. This tour will showcase a ~1.2 MW cogeneration system, peak demand management strategies, integrated economizers, and a 90,000-gallon rainwater harvesting system supporting cooling tower and irrigation operations. Participants will also gain firsthand insight into how building management systems evolve from design intent into long-term operational leadership, and how real-time data, dashboards, and 3D visualization tools are transforming engineering training, troubleshooting, and workforce development in modern commercial buildings.

Learning Level

Intermediate

Continuing Education Credit

AIA HSWGBCI

GBCI Rating System Specific Credit

Does Not Apply

Program

Tour - Additional Ticket Required

Pass Type

Additional Ticket Required

Location

Meet at Tour Desk

Track

Tour

Learning Objectives

Learning Objective #1

Integrated Energy Systems Design: Participants will be able to evaluate the engineering design and performance tradeoffs of an on-site cogeneration system (~1.2 MW), including distributed generation logic, peak demand shaving strategies, and integration with air-side/water-side economizers within a high-rise commercial building envelope and assess how legacy cogeneration infrastructure creates both constraints and strategic opportunities within a modern decarbonization framework.

Learning Objective #2

BMS & Controls: Design Intent to Operational Leadership: Participants will be able to identify how the knowledge and decision-making skills developed during the design and commissioning of a building's controls infrastructure translate into long-term operational leadership, drawing on firsthand insight from an engineer who moved from designing the building's systems to directing their ongoing performance.

Learning Objective #3

Water Resource Engineering & Closed-Loop Systems: Participants will be able to describe the engineering configuration of a ~90,000-gallon rainwater harvesting system, including collection, storage, treatment, and reuse pathways for cooling tower makeup water and irrigation, and quantify potable water demand reduction relative to baseline code-compliant systems.

Learning Objective #4

"Smarter Teams, Smarter Buildings: Technology as a Training Infrastructure: Participants will be able to apply a framework for building a technically literate engineering team using real-time data, 3D models for spatial orientation, dashboards, and pattern recognition for on-the-spot coaching, drawn from active implementation at this LEED Platinum commercial tower._x000D_ _x000D_ "