AMAZON At its corporate headquarters in downtown Seattle, Washington, Amazon has set a new standard for “green” office space, where ideas and flora flourish in a trio of glass-enclosed sphere-shaped buildings with structural steel shells protected by a fluoropolymer coating system from Tnemec. “The interior workspace surrounds employees with a waterfall, trees and thousands of plants from around the world,” according to Scott McConnell, coating consultant for TNW, Inc. in Seattle. “As soon as the building is closed down at night, the humidity is increased to 85 percent, then it drops down to 60 percent during business hours. That is why they needed a coating system with long-lasting corrosion protection.” McConnell worked closely with the project’s architectural firm, Seattle-based

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