Just as his company, PNC Financial Services Group, was beginning to build a 475,000-square-foot operations center in Pittsburgh, Saulson decided to make the building green.
“And I used to think that a green building had to have dirt floors and straw walls,” said PNC’s director of corporate real estate to a crowd of 250 contractors attending the Mechanical Contractors Association of America’s Green Opportunities Conference, Sept. 24-26, Milwaukee.