VIDEO: Pittsburgh’s Greenest Skyscraper Opens for Business

It’s 33 stories tall, airy and bright inside, but it’s the energy-efficient design that makes PNC Tower stand out

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By Jon Delano

CBS Pittsburgh

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Pittsburgh’s newest skyscraper opened last week.

It’s PNC Tower at the corner of Fifth, Forbes, and Wood Streets. Costing $400 million with no government dollars, PNC makes a special claim for this building.

It’s 33 stories tall, airy and bright inside, but it’s the energy-efficient design that makes PNC Tower stand out, says PNC’s director of construction Mike Gilmore.

“It combines a bunch of systems that have been used around the world but never all in combination,” Gilmore told KDKA money editor Jon Delano.