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An interdisciplinary approach to urban challenges is helping cities serve their residents better.
Coda — a 750,000-square-foot mixed-use project — is located between Spring Street and West Peachtree Street in Georgia Tech’s Technology Square. The project will enhance Tech’s innovation ecosystem, which fosters collaboration among the Institute, startups, and industry. Georgia Tech will be the anchor tenant, occupying approximately half of the 620,000 square feet of office space. The project includes an 80,000-square-foot data center and incorporates the historic Crum & Forster Building owned by the Georgia Tech Foundation.
Coda broke ground in December 2016. Construction will be an enormous undertaking. About 60 Olympic-size swimming pools full of dirt will need to be removed from the site — requiring more than 20,000 dump truck loads — and developers estimate it will be eight months before construction even moves above ground. Coda is scheduled for completion in 2019. Portman Holdings owns the facility.
Coda will feature about 1,000 smart glass windows — able to adjust their tint intelligently to reduce glare. Floor-to-ceiling glass windows are expected to increase energy efficiency by about 25 percent while allowing for unobstructed views of Tech Square and Midtown. The design includes a “collaborative core” to foster innovation and creativity. Besides Georgia Tech, the property will house companies working on big data technologies and retailers occupying nearly 40,000 square feet of space.
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