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Bank of America’s own operations already use renewable electricity and carry ambitious 2030 efficiency and emissions targets. At this Los Angeles tower, the interesting Solar Studio result is more specific: east and west façades generate at different times, turning the envelope into a broader daytime resource.
Los Angeles gives the tower a long solar day. East-facing glass can begin generating with the morning commute, while west-facing surfaces continue into the afternoon — turning the façade into an energy resource that follows the working day.
Qualified roof and façade surfaces are screened against the same energy and commercial assumptions used throughout this case study.
Grid-equivalent CO₂ is modelled using the local grid factor. Actual market-based emissions impact depends on the building’s electricity procurement and renewable-energy contracts.
See how electricity generation and equivalent energy cost change through the year as solar resource, orientation and shading shift.
East and west façades are the two largest modelled contributors, with west leading overall. That creates an unusually intuitive office-day story: the generation profile moves around the tower with the sun.
West, east and south façades carry most of the modelled annual generation. The orientation mix is valuable because it is both large and temporally diversified.
Los Angeles gives the tower a long solar day. East-facing glass can begin generating with the morning commute, while west-facing surfaces continue into the afternoon — turning the façade into an energy resource that follows the working day.
Bank of America achieved carbon neutrality in its operations and 100% renewable electricity procurement in 2019; its 2030 operating targets include lower location-based emissions and lower energy use.
On-site generation is tangible and asset-specific. It complements corporate procurement by producing electricity on the building where people work.
The east façade is one of the two largest contributors and rises earlier in the day.
The west façade leads annual output and carries production later, broadening the useful office-day profile.
For a mature downtown tower, productive glazing is a new performance layer rather than a wholesale reinvention of the building.
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Solar Studio reveals the energy potential hidden across an entire building envelope — not just the roof. It combines advanced 3D solar simulation with the commercial metrics asset owners need to make a decision.
We recreate the building and its urban surroundings so the analysis reflects the real geometry of the façade, roof and neighbouring skyline.
Advanced ray-tracing follows sunlight through every hour of the day and every season of the year, revealing how solar access changes across the envelope.
Nearby towers, setbacks and the building itself are captured in a detailed shading profile, separating consistently productive surfaces from those that spend too much time in shadow.
We translate the solar opportunity into generation, energy savings, carbon reduction and payback — turning a complex façade into a clear investment picture.
See where the building can generate, when that energy arrives, and which surfaces create the strongest commercial value.
These inputs define the Bank of America Plaza case study and can be changed for a building-specific assessment.
Indicative feasibility assessment. Results support early-stage decision making and should be followed by site, structural, electrical and façade-engineering review before project development.
We can turn this model into a site-specific pilot scope — target surfaces, expected generation, integration pathway and indicative economics.