engineering

Red Hat Tower

Red Hat Tower is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Red Hat Tower rather than just read about it. In short: Red Hat Tower (formerly Two Progress Tower) is the headquarters of the company Red Hat, a subsidiary of IBM. It is located in Raleigh, North Carolina, in the United States.

Key takeaways

Red Hat Tower belongs to engineering; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Red Hat Tower to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Red Hat Tower from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Red Hat Tower (formerly Two Progress Tower) is the headquarters of the company Red Hat, a subsidiary of IBM. It is located in Raleigh, North Carolina, in the United States. It was completed in 2004 at a cost of $100 million as a headquarters for Progress Energy Inc, a conglomerate of Duke Energy. It has 19 floors and 366,000 square feet (34,000 m2) of space.

History In 1999, Carolina Power & Light announced plans for a new headquarters tower. The 2000 merger with Florida Progress Corporation which created Progress Energy increased the need for the new building, which at the time had an estimated cost of $60 million. On February 14, 2002, Progress announced that the new project, costing $80 million, would include retail and residential space as well as offices, with a completion date of 2004. The company bought the two-acre site east of the existing headquarters in 2000. In April 2002, Progress selected Carter & Associates of Atlanta to develop the project. The 125,000-square-foot (11,600 m2) first phase would be complete in 2004, with the 300,000-square-foot (28,000 m2) second phase to follow in 2006. Late in 2002, Progress Energy announced its two new office buildings would be built at the same time. Instead, with commercial construction in a slump, Progress planned to speed up the larger project, which would bring together employees from a number of locations, including One Hannover Square, 333 Corporate Plaza and One Exchange Plaza in downtown Raleigh. On September 2, 2004, the building officially opened with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The January 2011 announcement that Progress will merge with Duke Energy left the status of Two Progress Plaza in question, since completion of the merger could have indicated that the company needed less space. However, on August 25, 2011, Red Hat announced plans to move 600 employees from its offices on the N.C. State Centennial Campus. Th 19-story tower was vacated by Progress Energy in 2012. Red Hat's lease began on January 1, 2013, ending August 23, 2035. In 2012, Red Hat estimated it would invest around $30 million in renovating and equipping the building. A ribbon cutting ceremony was held June 24, 2013 in the re-branded Red Hat Headquarters. The logo at the top of the tower was changed in 2019, coinciding with a rebrand at Red Hat.

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References

External links Media related to Red Hat Tower at Wikimedia Commons

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Red Hat Tower

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Red Hat Tower claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Red Hat Tower before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Red Hat Tower ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Red Hat Tower

In research: Red Hat Tower appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Red Hat Tower in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Red Hat Tower is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2004 establishments in North Carolina, Buildings and structures completed in 2004, Information technology company headquarters in the United States, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Red Hat Tower outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Red Hat Tower in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Red Hat Tower means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Red Hat Tower out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Red Hat Tower in simple terms?

Red Hat Tower (formerly Two Progress Tower) is the headquarters of the company Red Hat, a subsidiary of IBM. It is located in Raleigh, North Carolina, in the United States.

Why does Red Hat Tower matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Red Hat Tower?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Red Hat Tower.