On 20 September this year, the inauguration of the Center's environmentally friendly energy technologies (Centre for Sustainable Energy Technologies - CSET). This scientific and educational institution is a branch of the University of Nottingham in Ningbo (University of Nottingham at Ningbo) - that is, Chinese British university campus.
CSET building designed Italian company Mario Cucinella Architects (MCA), filling it with modern solutions to enable fully utilize the natural potential for heat and lighting. And, of course, the construction of this very self-sufficient in electricity.
It should be noted that building a zero energy balance (Zero-energy building) gradually conquer the world. As long as they do very little, but nowhere to go: do not want to depend on the reliability of electricity or the surge in oil prices - obzavedites their own sources of energy.
Cottages, pavilions, and even high-Acquires windmills and solar panels. In addition to environmental data (not the cheapest) technology so pleasant, that allows to save on operation.
Our attention has been drawn at home and whole-plant 'eco-city ": landing-real, contentious and very very fantastic.
Every such project is interesting in its own way. Especially if the environmental cleanliness and energy self-sufficiency combined with newcomer nontrivial appearance. Where is the wall of the CSET? A cursory glance and did not understand, this pile of broken lines.
By creating this fantastic structure, the Italians drew inspiration from the Chinese flashlight and traditional wooden shutters and screen. But the "lantern" - a vision for the future, rather than in the past.
CSET total area of 1300 square energy provided by photovoltaic cells, spread side by side, as well as - wind turbine.
The building has five aboveground and one underground floor. All of them are connected to a wide mine that went to the roof (but covered from rain).
This element is directly responsible for two features CSET - it allows the reflected sun rays penetrate deep into reducing the need for electric lighting, and even - defines the path of air flow.
In conjunction with geothermal (as writes MCA) that provides energy to heat buildings in winter and the innards cool them in summer with minimal costs "from the wall outlet. Yes, and "rosette", as we know, the CSET - his own.
According to the Italian firm, its cooling CSET spends the entire 7-8 kilowatt hours per square meter per year, about two orders of magnitude less than the cost of conventional office building on classical conditioning in the region where most of the year, to put it mildly, hot.
The sponsors estimate that the green in all senses CSET building will reduce the burning of coal at 448.9 tons and carbon emissions to 1,081.8 tons in the next 25 years. Across China - small numbers. But this is only an example, guiding star.
The problem of air pollution in China, especially in big cities and around them - is no secret. A growing industry - but one of its sources. Use the same pattern.
Recently, the number of motor vehicles (cars and trucks) in Chinese has exceeded 168 million, reports Treehugger. A lot of it or not? In the U.S., for example, this number exceeds a quarter of a billion. But in China the growth rate the park - above: more than 5% per year, while in those same States, an annual increase of less than 2%.
In such circumstances, "sustainable" technology is not to be redundant. And in China, promising vengeance develop "green" trend in architecture. Not without the help of foreign experts.
For example, several years ago was discovered "Sino-Italian environmental energy efficient building" (Sino-Italian Ecological Energy-Efficient Building - SIEBB) all of the same MCA, was built for the University Tsynhua (Tsinghua University) in Beijing.
Interestingly, SIEBB gives shelter to the Sino-Italian research and academic centers for environmental protection and energy-efficient technologies. Just some kind of trend. However, what surprised Chinese students after the biologists and clinicians, who have settled in the living cell."
The building is designed in such a way as to minimize the costs of heating and cooling. It has its own solar panels, but most of the energy facility receives from its own generators, provided a gas engine.
However, on the complete zero balance of the works of his Italian masters did not write.
There are a few buildings of its kind implemented. But the biggest "no" facility in China should be a 300-meter "tower pearl river in Guangzhou, designed by U.S. company Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. On this project we were told in detail, and now the same skyscraper is on the way to completion (scheduled date of delivery - 2009).
And by 2010, near Shanghai, to grow a "zero-town" - Duntan (Dongtan).
This futuristic object should simply be punctuated with modern technology. So good specialists he needed. And perhaps, some of them come from the walls of CSET. After all, this center can be considered a textbook of glass, concrete and metal. And a good guide at the same time. Representatives of the University of Nottingham called the center "a beacon in the world of green technology."
Let the size of this "zero" five small, but as the Chinese saying goes, "the journey of a thousand miles in length starts with one step."
No comments:
Post a Comment