Adobe flips the switch on all-electric building

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The exterior façade design of Adobe Founders Tower features an external shading system. This maximizes daylight availability and visual comfort to reduce the heat load of the building, which requires less cooling and heating energy
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The exterior façade design of Adobe Founders Tower features an external shading system. This maximizes daylight availability and visual comfort to reduce the heat load of the building, which requires less cooling and heating energy

The latest addition to Adobe's headquarters site in San Jose, California, boasts the largest all-electric commercial kitchen in North America

Almost four years after the groundbreaking, Adobe has officially opened its 18-story, all-electric new headquarters building in San Jose, California - a much-heralded project that broke ground in 2019 but...

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