According to the architects who designed it, the most ambitious aim was to reduce to the half the energy consumption of the airport. (CNN) - The air traffic grows in the whole world year after year and because of it it has become fundamental to find ways of doing that the aviation is increasingly ecological. And while the manufacturers of planes look for more green ways of flying, from electrical planes up to biocombustibles, the architects try to do more respectful and amicable airports with the environment. To the first sight, it looks like an enormous challenge. After everything, the airports are nodes of massive transport that consume big quantities of energy. Nevertheless, a mixture of intelligent engineering and the determination of some airport operators can come very far.
The northern touch On line with the reputation of the environmental conscience of the region, Scandinavia shelters the one that has been qualified as the most green and ecological airport of the world. It is the new terminus of the Airport of Oslo, which opened the public in last April. The new building increases the capacity of the airport to 32 million passengers per year. This one is the first building of airport in the world in receiving the stamp of "Excellently" in the classification BREEAM, a scheme of certification that evaluates the sustainability of the buildings and the civil works in the world. " In the Airport of Oslo, the area is in the ecological materials, the energetic innovative solutions and the management of waste ", says Henriette Berg, project manager of the WSP in Norway, one of the organizations involved in the process of certification. For Bjørn Olav Susæg, of Nordic, the signature with headquarters in Oslo that designed the terminus, the most ambitious aim was to reduce to the half the energy consumption.
" We do not begin this project with the aim to turn into the most ecological airport of the world ", is assured by him. The architects based on a holistic approach to minimize the carbon footprint. Not only the walls and windows maximize the use of the daylight - a giant challenge in the Scandinavian winter-, but natural materials of local origin like stone and wood of sustainable forests are used in a generous way in the whole building.
" Beside being a material of high energy efficiency, the wood gives him to the terminal a very northern identity ", says Susæg. " We think that after an age in which the majority of the airports look alike, it is a moment to emphasize these elements that can give to the travelers a local sense, a sense of which they are in a specific site, with his own local identity ".
Designed by the architects' signature with headquarters in Oslo, Nordic, the new terminus combines the environmental efficiency with a good style. There is cooled thanks to the snow One of his major attractions is his system of refrigeration, based on the snow. During the winter, the snow is gathered and stored in a warehouse and covered with sawdust to be isolated. When the summer comes, the thaw is used to cool the building, reducing the quantity of energy consumption during the rush hours. In winter, for the heating the airport uses natural heat energy.
Another prominent point of his design, evidence of the efficient use that it does of the space, is the fact that in spite of the fact that the airport every time is bigger, the maximum time of trek towards the doors of boarding continues being the same. Another northern airport Closely together, in Finland, the national operator of airports Finavia also one has come worrying for the environment. The company, which handles 21 air terminuses in the whole country, has an ambitious program to achieve the neutrality in carbon in 2020.
In fact, the Airport Helsinki-Vantaa, the biggest of Finavia's network, maybe reach this goal this year, when a solar plant located there begins to produce energy.
The Airport Helsinki-Vantaa, in Finland, maybe manages to be neutral in carbon this year, when a solar plant located there begins to produce energy. But these northern airports are not the only ones in trying to be sustainable and ecological. Mahesh Ramanujam, president and the executive director of the Advice of Ecological Constructions of The United States, the organization that issues the certification READ for green buildings in the whole world, emphasizes the terminus 3 of the Airport Indira Gandhi of New Delhi, in the India, and the Ecological Airport of Tortoises, in Ecuador.
In the first one, the energy and the water are preserved thanks to the maximization of the natural light, the water compilation of rain, the installation of an electrical solar plant and a plant of treatment of waste water. 75 % of the airport of Tortoises, located in a particularly sensitive place if it is thought about the environment, was constructed by recycled materials. It has an own plant of desalinización of water and his source of energy is almost 100 % wind and solar.
Source: CNN
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