Holiday Ayo - Architectural and building engineering firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) released its concept for the world's tallest building last May. 

The building will be 3 thousand feet (914 meters) high and will also function as a giant battery. This building concept is an energy storage innovation that utilizes the latest technology. 

In order to make this project a reality, they collaborated with the energy storage company, Energy Vault to develop a new gravitational energy storage solution. 

“Ultimately, multi-gigawatt-hours of energy can be stored, which is enough to power several buildings,” said Energy Vault CEO Robert Piconi as quoted on Thursday (8/8).

Later, the building will have a moving machine that can move giant blocks. This driving machine or motor is powered by electricity from the blocks. 

This actuator will only function on demand. Even though it sounds unusual, SOM is quite optimistic about realizing this 'battery' building project. 

Because, this company is the designer of the One World Trade Center in New York, the Willis Tower in Chicago or the Sears Tower, and the tallest skyscraper in the world, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. 

“This is an opportunity to take this expertise and use it for energy storage to enable us to phase out fossil fuels,” said consulting partner at SOM and structural engineer for the Burj Khalifa, Bill Baker. 

The International Energy Association responded that a storage network that uses technology connected to the electricity grid is needed. 

This way, energy can be stored and used when needed. The SOM and Energy Vault superstructure towers are planned to have holes in the structure such as elevator shafts to move blocks. 

So every time these blocks move, they will just move in place. Outside this area, residents can still use other land as housing and commercial areas. 

It is estimated that the carbon footprint on earth will not increase much. Considering that currently, the building and construction sector contributes almost 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions.