#GreenSolutions Awards 2018: Discover these winners whose solutions already shape the zero carbon city
The Green Solutions Awards 2018 winners were revealed in Katowice, a Polish mining town that made the shift to commit to the energy transition and COP24 theatre. The Construction21 network, organiser of the contest, rewarded the winning teams during a ceremony that gathered nearly 200 industry professionals from all around the world. Beyond their prize, the awarded teams gain an exceptional visibility that allows them to show the market they are able to provide with relevant solutions, already used
Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City (China): Sustainable City Grand Prize Winner - Green Solutions Awards 2018
The Tianjin eco-city stands in the new Tianjin Binhai area and covers a 30km2 total area. In 2007, the Sino-Singaporean framework agreement included the integration of the eco-city into a "conservation of resources, environmental protection and social harmony" approach, to "become the model of sustainable development". Since its launch in 2008, and after 10 years of construction, 95% of the southern district has been built to accommodate 110,000 inhabitants. In terms of quality of life, all residential
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Beyond representing up to 40% of a city’s energy budget, lighting is also a way to improve its safety and aesthetics. Produced by Citelum, the EDF Group’s intelligent lighting subsidiary and related connected service, the renovation of the Copenhagen public lighting is the largest public lighting project in the capital. The work carried out is in line with the city’s goals of achieving carbon neutrality by 2025 by reducing energy expenditure, improving the safety of residents, improving mobility
KTR Headquarters (France): Sustainable Renovation Grand Prize Winner - Green Solutions Awards 2018
KTR, a German industrial group specialized in mechanical transmissions, wanted a building reflecting the image and the values of the company for its French headquarters: innovative and offering excellent work conditions for its employees, autonomous especially energy wise. The KTR group has already built very efficient buildings, but for the site of Dardilly, the refurbishment option was chosen. The construction manager oriented the project to aim for even more ambitious goals, with a more comprehensive
Aulario IndUVA (Spain): Sustainable Construction Grand Prize Winner - Green Solutions Awards 2018
The construction of the Aulario building for University of Valladolid’s School of Industrial Engineering represents a great opportunity for research and improvement of technics already applied on net zero energy buildings of the campus. The building, while completely new, is already connected to the other buildings and installations of the campus, where a global refurbishment and sustainability intervention is being carried out. Aulario IndUVA aims for the GREEN GBCe, LEED and Well certifications
House of Île-de-France (France): Energy & Temperate Climates Winner - Green Solutions Awards 2018
Zero Energy! Zero Carbon! Zero Nuclear Waste! Located in the International University Campus in Paris, the 5,000m2 House of Ile-de-France is unprecedented in France. With its 100% solar energy strategy, this student residence features two giant tanks (150,000 liters of water) heated by solar panels, providing the whole building with hot water and heating all year long (through seasonal thermal storage). Photovoltaic panels on the roof produce electricity for all uses in the building (included in
Wild South Media Library (France): Energy & Hot Climates Winner - Green Solutions Awards 2018
The Wild South Media Library, on the Reunion Island, is based on a specific sustainability approach to the tropical and subtropical climates and interrogates contemporary architecture of the Reunion Island. The library creates a progression from public space to the intimacy, providing a true connection to the outside and blurring the limits with the inside of the building. In order to achieve that result, the project was oriented toward passive, but open building requiring no air conditioning thanks to
The Beehive (France): Low Carbon Winner - Green Solutions Awards 2018
The Beehive is a social experiment born from the will of the city of Bègles to have an exemplary participative project on its territory. After a 4-year human adventure, 11 families enjoy a collective residence with 7 housings and 4 contiguous houses built on the parcel of an old single house. This first participative housing owes its success to the project team – who followed the project from the origin – and its very committed inhabitants, who participated also from the very beginning. Biweekly
Landsea New Mansion (China): Health & Comfort Winner - Green Solutions Awards 2018
The Landsea New Mansion project is located in the west suburbs of Shanghai and covers a 13,433m2 area, with three 5-storey residential buildings. This project capitalizes on the construction manager’s years of experience in healthy and comfortable buildings, notably by following the approach of international standards. In order to offer optimal living standards to the inhabitants, the Landsea New Mansion has been refurbished to find balance between health, comfort, energy savings, preservation of
CLK Passive House (Luxembourg): Smart Building Winner - Green Solutions Awards 2018
This passive house demonstrates that connected building can go hand in hand with sustainable housing. Beyond the work for a very efficient and eco-responsible envelope, the contractor wanted to install the EnOcean technology for its ecological values. The CLK witness house thus becomes an intelligent connected home. This house’s intelligence is invisible, it warns and allows also to control the data, without spending any energy and with the least possible wave emissions. This technology requires
Green Solutions Awards 2018: welche Projekte werden im internationalen Finale vorgestellt?
Jetzt ist es soweit, das ganze Construction21-Netzwerk stellt seine Gewinner vor! Diese, als Gewinner in ihren Ländern und in den jeweiligen Kategorien, sind für den internationalen Finale, der am 6. Dezember in Polen während der COP24 stattfindet, qualifiziert. Fünf Jurys von Experten aus der ganzen Welt werden die Sieger unter den Gebäuden, Vierteln und Infrastrukturen bestimmen. Über die Wahl der Gewinner hinaus, ihre Aufgabe ist, eine Botschaft dem Markt zukommen zu lassen, indem innovative Lösungen
Call for Papers für die 23. internationale Passivhaustagung
Passivhaus – weltweit gesund, behaglich und nachhaltig bauen Nutzen Sie die Gelegenheit und präsentieren Sie Ihr Passivhaus-Projekt in China! Wir freuen uns über Abstracts zu folgenden Themen: Beispiele Wohngebäude & Nichtwohngebäude Inbetriebnahme / Facility Management / Monitoring Lüftung / Raumluftqualität / Sommerkomfort Küchenabluft im Passivhaus Luftdichtheit & wärmebrückenfreies Konstruieren Sanierung im Passivhaus
Internationale Passivhaustagung: Erstmals außerhalb Europas!
Die 23. Internationale Passivhaustagung findet 2019 erstmals in China statt. Gaobeidian lädt ein! Bauindustrie boomt „Uns ist bewusst, dass diese Entscheidung überraschen mag. Doch China ist das Land, in dem aktuell und auch in den kommenden Dekaden die größten Neubauaktivitäten stattfinden. Jedes neue Gebäude bringt einen zusätzlichen Bedarf an Energie für Heizung und Kühlung mit sich. Daher ist es sehr erfreulich, dass es in China ernsthafte Anstrengungen für eine radikale Verbesserung der Energieeffizi
„Quartiere nachhaltig planen, bauen und bewirtschaften – Ideen, Konzepte und Umsetzungen in der Großregion“
einladen, die am 16. Oktober 2018 ab 09:30 Uhr bei den Stadtwerken Trier (Ostallee 7-13, D-54290 Trier) stattfindet. Nachhaltigkeit ist das Thema in der grenzüberschreitenden Bauwirtschaft und Quartiersentwicklung. Die Greater Green Konferenz „Quartiere nachhaltig planen, bauen und bewirtschaften – Ideen, Konzepte und Umsetzungen in der Großregion“ geht konkreten Entwicklungen in Grand Est, dem Saarland, Rheinland-Pfalz, der Wallonie und Luxemburg nach und macht besonders gute Beispiele sichtbar
Unter 143 Teilnehmern aus 17 Ländern, wen wählen Sie aus?
Juni – Schluss der Anmeldungen bei der Green Solutions Awards 2018, der von Construction21 organisierte Wettbewerb für nachhaltige Lösungen. Insgesamt werden 143 Teilnehmer die Farben ihres Landes verteidigen, indem sie versuchen, Meister ihrer Kategorie zu werden. Der Schluss der Anmeldungen signalisiert auch den Start der Social-Media-Wahlkampagne. Alle Internetbenutzer werden aufgerufen, ihre bevorzugten Gebäude, Quartiere und Infrastrukturen für die Vergabe des Publikumspreises auszuwählen. Auf
