World's Greenest Office Building Is Dutch: The Edge — Transcript

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1. 0:01[Music]
2. 0:06welcome to the
3. 0:08edge this is certifiably the greenest
4. 0:11office building in the
5. 0:13world but that just might be the least
6. 0:16interesting part about it because the
7. 0:18edge in Amsterdam is also possibly the
8. 0:21most connected office space in the
9. 0:23[Music]
10. 0:26world working at the edge is insane it
11. 0:29all starts with a smartphone app
12. 0:31developed by the building's main tenant
13. 0:33the consulting firm
14. 0:34deoe when you arrive at the edge a
15. 0:37camera recognizes you by your license
16. 0:39plate for automatic access and because
17. 0:41it's the Netherlands there are Chargers
18. 0:43available for electric
19. 0:45[Music]
20. 0:47cars inside things start to get
21. 0:50interesting because you don't have a
22. 0:53desk no one here does workspaces are
23. 0:56assigned to you based on your schedule
24. 0:58for the day you have options a work
25. 1:01Booth a meeting room what they call a
26. 1:03concentration room a sitting desk a
27. 1:05standing desk a balcony desk you can
28. 1:08even just hang out in the sunfill atrium
29. 1:10all
30. 1:11day this concept is called hot desking
31. 1:14and it's what allows deoe to have 2500
32. 1:17workers but less than half as many desks
33. 1:19at its Dutch
34. 1:21headquarters the app knows your
35. 1:23preferences and when you arrive at your
36. 1:24workspace the lights dim or brighten
37. 1:27based on your stored settings and any of
38. 1:29the build building's massive flat
39. 1:31screens can be instantly paired with an
40. 1:33iPhone or a
41. 1:37laptop so what makes all this
42. 1:40possible the LED light panels developed
43. 1:42by Phillips specifically for the edge
44. 1:45are actually powered by low voltage
45. 1:47ethernet cables which means every light
46. 1:50in the building becomes its own internet
47. 1:52connected data Hub with 288,000 sensors
48. 1:55that makes the building and its users
49. 1:58smarter the building becomes a very
50. 2:00important part of who we are and what we
51. 2:02want to be and we actually seen in
52. 2:04recruitment that more people are now
53. 2:06spontaneously coming to the Lo because
54. 2:08they want to work in this
55. 2:10building oh yeah and then there's these
56. 2:13the building has solar on the roof and
57. 2:15on the south facing wall enough to power
58. 2:17the building and all of the electric
59. 2:19cars computers and smartphones used by
60. 2:22its
61. 2:23employees and those employees are kept
62. 2:25warm by two enormous bore holes
63. 2:28tunneling more than 400 100 ft down
64. 2:30beneath the building during the summer
65. 2:33The Edge pumps warm water deep into the
66. 2:35aquafer where it sits insulated until it
67. 2:39can be sucked back out in the winter to
68. 2:41warm the
69. 2:42building outside there are beehive
70. 2:44towers and bat homes to support the
71. 2:46local pollinators and even the rain
72. 2:49water is collected to flush the toilets
73. 2:51and irrigate the
74. 2:53gardens we uh are planning to build a
75. 2:56lot more buildings like these and the
76. 2:58next one will be smarter and the one
77. 3:00after that will be smarter as well and
78. 3:02we won't stop until all cities in the
79. 3:04world are filled with buildings that are
80. 3:06intelligent and that are not using any
81. 3:08energy anymore in the end we will
82. 3:10actually need less buildings in the
83. 3:12world but the buildings that are there
84. 3:13will be used in a better way will be
85. 3:15more efficient and we'll be uh we'll be
86. 3:17using a lot less energy than in the
87. 3:20[Music]
88. 3:22past sometimes the edge just feels like
89. 3:25it's showing off and some of the app
90. 3:27functionality isn't quite ready for
91. 3:29prime time yet
92. 3:30but most of the time this is all running
93. 3:32seamlessly in the
94. 3:34background it's maybe the most fully
95. 3:36realized vision of The Internet of
96. 3:38Things the world has ever
97. 3:40seen it's a building that has
98. 3:43sustainability as an important aspect of
99. 3:45making a good place to work in Dutch
100. 3:47there is even a word for this new kind
101. 3:49of thinking about the workspace that new
102. 3:52AA in a nutshell it means that um work
103. 3:56space is more focused on the tasks that
104. 3:59need to be done and the working
105. 4:00community that it's part
106. 4:03of another day at the edge comes to an
107. 4:05end a Custom Security robot that looks a
108. 4:08bit like R2-D2 wakes up and begins its
109. 4:12patrols now if only the app could
110. 4:14automatically come conjure up a nice
111. 4:16dinner recipe maybe provide all the
112. 4:18fresh ingredients at the end of the day
113. 4:19to get you cooking no surprise The Edge
114. 4:23has that too bone appetit
115. 4:33[Music]