Times Union: Japanese delegates touring SUNY Poly's ZEN
building
Published:
Tuesday, March 22, 2016 - 11:16
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SUNY Poly’s ZEN building on Fuller Road in Albany.[/caption]
Delegates from both industry and government in Japan will be touring SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s ZEN building on Tuesday , a big deal for both the institute and Japan.
Japan has invested heavily in research on ZEN, considered to be one of the world’s largest energy-sustainable office building. Japan is at the cutting edge of the use of both solar and the construction of so-called zero energy buildings, and the Japanese government has a partnership with SUNY Poly to study how the ZEN building works.
ZEN is designed to be super energy efficient and its energy usage will be offset by a large solar farm.
