BACnet® for Renovation: Mixing Old and New

Park Towers are two, 18-story, 270,000 ft2 (25 000 m2) commercial office towers in the upscale Galleria area of Houston. Built in the 1970s, they were fully operational buildings until the late 1980s. The buildings sat vacant and abandoned for more than 11 years until TPMC Realty Corporation purchased them in 1998. After a total asbestos abatement and a demo of the total interior shell of the buildings, the TPMC development team performed a total renovation of these assets. Inclusive in this renovation was a new expanded curtain wall (adding approximately 55,000 ft2 (5100 m2) of lease space), roof, chillers, elevators, cooling towers and new M/E/P systems for the building. The buildings were reopened in January 2000.