ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the environmental restructuring of Amsterdam's office buildings. It outlines the characteristics of the place, describing the composition and operation of the city's stock of office buildings, the local infrastructure and environmental challenges, as well as the general regulatory framework governing them. The chapter presents the heart of debate and provides an analysis of the environmental management practices of both local and global actors, describing the approaches adopted and the interplay of social action in furthering technological change in four corporate buildings. It examines a synthesis as to how the environmental reform of Amsterdam's office buildings is developing in view of the influences and interactions of such two spaces, the local and the global, of social agency. Amsterdam South is the fastest growing business centre in the Netherlands as well as the largest office-building site of Europe, in which the financial and service sectors predominate.
