HSBC Bank Headquarters in Mexico Earns LEED Certification

The HSBC Bank Headquarters Tower in Mexico City has earned Gold-level Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).

According to a press release from the project’s designer, HOK, the building is the first project in Latin America to receive LEED Gold status. The 400,000-swuare-foot, 24-story downtown office tower also earned the 2007 National Interiors Award and the top award for Corporate Interior Design from the Mexican Interior Design Association (AMDI).

HSBC is headquartered in London and is one of the world’s largest banking and financial service organizations. When it merged with another local bank (Bital) in 2002, the company purchased the new Torre Angel building on the Paseo de la Reforma, Mexico City’s main thoroughfare, for its consolidated Mexican headquarters. Gisca, a Mexican developer, awarded HOK the contract to redesign the building façade and public spaces. HOK also designed the building interiors.

HSBC Mexico represents HOK’s 22^nd project to earn LEED certification from the USGBC.

More information is available at www.hok.com/sustainabledesign/.