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STORY: UN / CMP BAN KI-MOON
TRT: 3.14
SOURCE: UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 28 DECEMBER 2009 – 4 JANUARY 2010, NEW YORK CITY/ FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Zoom out, exterior new UN building
4 JANUARY 2010, NEW YORK CITY
2. Tracking shot, Secretary-General walking to his new office
3. Pan left, Secretary-General inside his new office
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“Change is always a challenge, but we need to take control of this challenge. Even it is important, even for fresh thinking. This change is necessary and long overdue in fact.”
5. Tracking shot, Secretary-General walking through the new building
6. Zoom out, Secretary-General shaking hands with cafeteria workers
29 DECEMBER 2009, NEW YORK CITY
7. Pan left, Michael Adlerstein walking past building maquette
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Adlerstein, Executive Director, Capital Master Plan (CMP):
“We built this temporary building on the North Lawn just to keep everyone in the compound for the General Assembly sessions, so I think that is one of the challenges which very few organizations face to the degree that the UN is facing where they can’t move, yet they must move. So we have to move sort of left and then step right and then step left and then step right.”
9. Close up, Alderstein taking notes
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Adlerstein, Executive Director, Capital Master Plan (CMP):
“The greening of the UN will result in a reduction of our energy consumption by over 50 percent, as compared to what we use now, reduction of our water consumption by over 45 percent, reduction of our carbon production, which is the major contributor to greenhouse gases, by over 45 percent. So we are going to make a significant impact in this project on making the UN more green.”
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
11. Wide shot, Secretariat Building
28 DECEMBER 2009, NEW YORK CITY
12. Zoom in, Secretary-General packing books in his old office
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“I’m excited. This is quite a historic moment for United Nations and for all of us. At the same time I know it will be a very difficult operation to move such a huge organization to another work space.”
Wide shot, Secretary-General walking from the old to the new building
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“We will make this one of the most exemplary green buildings in the world as a part of our leading by example.”
FILE – 5 MAY 2008, NEW YORK CITY
15. Zoom out, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and others break ground for North Lawn Building
FILE – 2009, NEW YORK CITY
16. Close up, ‘Danger/ Hard Hat Area” sign with "Good Defeats Evil" sculpture in background
17. Wide shot, "Good Defeats Evil" sculpture seen through fence
18. Wide shot, North Lawn Building under construction
19. Zoom out, earth movers
20. Zoom out, earth mover operator
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon relocated to his new office today (4 January), from the 38th floor of the historic Secretariat building to the 3rd floor of a temporary swing space, as part of the multiyear renovation of United Nations Headquarters.
Ban pointed out that “change is always a challenge” but in this case it was “necessary and long overdue.”
Altogether 272 occupants will move to the just completed Temporary North Lawn Building. They are scheduled to return to the renovated Secretariat and Conference Buildings in 2012.
The Executive Director of the Capital Master Plan (CMP) Michael Adlerstein explained the challenges presented by renovating the compound while remaining fully operative, saying that “we have to move sort of left and then step right and then step left and then step right.”
Alderstein added that “the greening of the UN” is a central part of the process and will result in significant energy and water savings as well as a reduction in carbon production, “which is the major contributor to greenhouse gases”, by over 45 percent.
The Secretary-General started packing his personal belongings last week. As he prepared for the move he said that this was “quite a historic moment,” acknowledging that “it will be a very difficult operation to move such a huge organization to another work space.”
After the official ground breaking ceremony in May 2008, cranes and earthmovers begun changing the landscape of the 50-plus year-old complex, designed by Le Corbusier and a host of other prominent architects. Prior to the current renovations, the complex had undergone only minor changes since its completion in 1950.
The Temporary North Lawn Building will be officially inaugurated at a ceremony on 11 January.
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