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Salesforce Tower already uses 50% less energy per square foot than the median US office, sources 100% renewable electricity and operates the country’s largest on-site blackwater recycling system in a commercial high-rise. The right proposition is another first-of-kind building technology.
Salesforce Tower already proves that major workplace infrastructure can become part of the innovation story. Productive glazing offers the next visible step: make the clear envelope itself generate electricity while reinforcing the tower’s identity as a technology-forward workplace.
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.
Southeast and southwest façades provide roughly three quarters of modelled annual generation, while the roof contributes only a few percent. This is exactly the geometry where productive glazing becomes more than a rooftop extension.
The model is overwhelmingly vertical, led by southeast and southwest. That concentration supports a clear flagship façade intervention rather than a conventional rooftop story.
Salesforce Tower already proves that major workplace infrastructure can become part of the innovation story. Productive glazing offers the next visible step: make the clear envelope itself generate electricity while reinforcing the tower’s identity as a technology-forward workplace.
LEED Platinum, renewable electricity, high energy performance and a first-of-kind blackwater system show that the tower is willing to make building infrastructure part of its identity.
A transparent generation layer can become another building technology that visitors, employees and customers can physically see — aligned with a brand built around technology adoption.
A façade pilot gives Salesforce a visible technology story that can begin on selected surfaces, prove performance in operation and scale from there.
A productive façade lets the headquarters embody the same innovation and sustainability narrative Salesforce takes to customers.
Southeast and southwest façades together provide roughly three quarters of modelled annual generation; the roof contributes only a few percent.
Salesforce maintains 100% renewable-energy procurement for global operations and has made sustainability part of its core-value framework.
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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 Salesforce Tower 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.