On 22 May 2013, WrocÅ‚aw Green Towers complex, the first office building in Poland to have been LEED certified with the highest Platinum rating,  has been officially opened.

Skanska Property Poland developed the scheme, fully leased both buildings and sold it to a company from a fund belonging to the PZU group even before the second building was completed.

Green Towers comprises two ten-storey office buildings located at Strzegomska Street in WrocÅ‚aw, developed by Skanska Property Poland. The total leasable space of Green Towers is approximately 24,000 sqm. The first building was commissioned for use in March 2012 and the other was completed in January 2013. The complex’s tenants include Ernst & Young, Allegro Group, Dolby, Medicover Group, Becton Dickinson and Talex.

The official opening ceremony was attended by Adam Grehl, Vice President of WrocÅ‚aw, Regional Director of Skanska Property Poland, Bartosz Kalinowski, Jacek Koprowski, Deputy Director of the Real Estate Office in TFI PZU and Asset Management, the new owner of Green Towers, and Zbigniew Maćków, the architect whose studio designed the complex. Professor Józef HaÅ‚as, doyen and mentor of WrocÅ‚aw artistic circles also honored the ceremony with his attendance.

“Green Towers is a well-designed, innovative office complex, which found tenants, as well as an investor, even before it was finished. We are currently developing two other office complexes in WrocÅ‚aw – Green Day, near Ostrów Tumski, and DominikaÅ„ski located in the proximity of DominikaÅ„ski Square. We are confident that they will soon gain investors and tenants, all the more so as WrocÅ‚aw is a perfect place for business and one the most dynamically developing cities in Poland,” said Bartosz Kalinowski, Regional Director at Skanska Property Poland.

A sculpture by Professor Józef HaÅ‚as, symbolizing the Intelligence Quotient, was also unveiled during the ceremony. The term IQ was coined a hundred years ago (in 1912) by William Stern, a WrocÅ‚aw scientist. A light, simple geometric form, which reflects human IQ, was placed in the internal patio between the two buildings of Green Towers.

“Modern office buildings are contemporary incubators for innovation. Thousands of young people are using many levels of knowledge in the their work in the places where there used to be outdated workshops and factories. This is an unbelievable leap forward for civilization. The distinctive Green Towers buildings, meet the highest sustainability standards, and are representative of this new stage in the city’s development. What other place would be better to place this sculpture, a symbol of human intelligence,” said Zbigniew Maćków, the architect of Green Towers.  

Green Towers is excelling in real estate competitions. It received the award for the best new offce building in the BPO sector in 2013 at the Poland Outsourcing Awards Gala,  and the title of “RealGreen Building of the Year” at CEE Quality Awards 2013 (CEEQA). The complex, completed in January 2013, was regarded as the safest construction site in Lower Silesia in the competition “Build Safely”, organized by the National Labour Inspectorate.

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