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A new pilot project in the capital will try out multi-faceted farming in a built-up setting as a source of food and environmental awareness
The work is already underway from both sides and completion is expected at the end of the decade
The solution which has been progressing to that end for the past several years proves that there can be a circular business model
This move will open green and social public projects to wider investments
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The flying machines will help pinpoint polluted districts much more accurately
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The Agri-Tech centre in Osnabrück has a lab, workshop and test field all rolled into one
It will supply electricity to a population twice the city of Porto
Plzeňský Prazdroj’s new brewery warehouse launched an automated rail system capable of storing more beer and loading it onto trucks much more efficiently
The work is already underway from both sides and completion is expected at the end of the decade
Local authorities say that this is a good way to preserve the 15th-century market building while providing a public service
A new pilot project in the capital will try out multi-faceted farming in a built-up setting as a source of food and environmental awareness
Let your amorous intentions be known throughout the French capital, because if not there, where else?
Let your amorous intentions be known throughout the French capital, because if not there, where else?
The city has launched a 'buy 1 get 1 for free' scheme to lure people back to the local cultural scene
No more blue Mondays in this educational institution
The facility will be located in Hasselt and is set to welcome its first visitors this spring
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No more blue Mondays in this educational institution
It is one the world’s tallest structures of this kind
Skelleftea is a community located in the far north of Sweden, only some 200 kilometres from the Arctic Circle. Home to 33,000 people it is a typical town for the area, that is until last month when the Sara Culture Centre opened its doors there. That centre is one of the world’s tallest timber buildings, standing 75 metres high and towering over the surrounding landscape, it could even be described as a small skyscraper.
Given that Northern Sweden is home to vast forests and a booming timber industry it only makes sense to construct buildings out of this easily accessible, organic and cheap material. In fact, until only a recent past that was mostly the case in Scandinavia, and we are starting to notice a trend of returning to those architectural roots.
The Sara Cultural Centre, designed by white arkitekter, houses venues for the arts, performances and meetings, as well as a hotel.
“It didn’t start as a 20-story house in Skelleftea, it started with a strategy which basically means that Skelleftea didn’t just want to survive but develop,” said Skelleftea head of urban planning Therese Kreisel, quoted by ArcticToday.
Kreisel said the building was constructed from 12,200 cubic meters of wood from trees harvested from within a 60-kilometre radius of the city.
The cultural centre, which takes up the lower four levels of the building, is built with columns and beams made of glued laminated timber and without the use of concrete. The cement industry currently accounts for about 7 percent of global CO2 emissions, per the International Energy Agency.
The building also houses six theatre stages, the city library, two art galleries, a conference centre, restaurants, and a hotel with 205 rooms that offer views of the surrounding city.
Apart from being one of the world’s tallest wooden buildings and a meeting place for the city’s residents, the building’s energy system tries to be as carbon neutral as possible.
The building is equipped with solar panels, batteries and a heat pump that works with electrical, water and district heating. Even the sprinkler system, which in most buildings is usually powered by diesel, is powered by renewable energy.
Excess energy from the building is passed on to other parts of the city or stored in the cultural centre’s on-site batteries.
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