Envac Waste Collection Station Stockholm, Stora Ursvik Building, Sweden Development, Swedish Architecture
Envac Waste Collection Station, Stora Ursvik
New Swedish BREAAM Excellent Industrial Building – design by Tengbom Architects
9 Nov 2016
Envac Waste Collection Station – Stora Ursvik Building
Design: Tengbom, Architects
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Envac Waste Collection Station in Stora Ursvik
SWEDEN?S FIRST BREEAM CERTIFIED INDUSTRIAL BUILDING ANNOUNCED
Envac?s waste collection station in the district of Stora Ursvik, just north of Stockholm, has become the first industrial building in Sweden to secure BREAAM certification after it received the coveted ?Excellent? rating ? the second highest accolade in BREEAM?s programme.
BREEAM is the world’s leading sustainability assessment method for masterplanning projects, infrastructure and building. The BREEAM assessment evaluates the procurement, design, construction and operation of a development against targets based on performance benchmarks. Developments can receive one of five levels of certification including Pass, Good, Very Good, Excellent and Outstanding.
The waste of 4,500 apartments and a school in Stora Ursvik is collected by the 300 Envac waste inlets situated throughout the site and transported, via airflow, along a pipe network measuring 3km in length to the central waste collection station. Three waste streams including general waste, food waste and paper are collected through the system.
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