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Privacy, Disclamer and rights
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Dissemination |
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The main dissemination activity in the ECO-Culture project is the buildings themselves. While the expected
number of yearly visitors were expected to be 2,4 million the actual number are as much as 4 million. The large number of visitors to
the buildings both as users in the Library and as guests attending shows in the Opera House and Playhouse as well as the visitors
participating in the guided tours are all experiencing that architecturally appealing buildings can very well be environmentally
friendly.
In all of the three buildings tours are held at least weekly. |
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Playhouse
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The project has been a huge success for COWI. Especially the combination of thermo-active
slabs and heat pumps for heating and cooling using seawater or ground sources as reservoir has been adopted in new building projects. This has
formed and continues to form the basis for several projects where sustainability and low energy consumption have been in focus. In more recent
projects, focus has been on variations using groundwater or LTES in combination with the remaining low-energy building design. The newest
addition to the use of heat pumps has been to use heat driven heat pumps that do not use electricity but rather district heating to supply
heating and cooling to the building.
At the same time, there is a growing trend for other consultants in Denmark to also use heat pumps and some sort of seawater, ground water or
LTES as reservoir when designing low-energy buildings. The combination with thermo-active slabs is also catching on, and in general, the use
of thermo-active slabs has become a selling point in many new office buildings.
For cultural buildings, the Playhouse has shown that it is possible to combine attractive architecture, good functionality and low energy
consumption in the same building. |
Library
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| The Library has become a well known building in the Amsterdam area, and the low-energy design
and the use of renewable energy sources have gained considerable interest in the public. |
Opera House
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Figure 7.1 shows which popular tourist attraction the Opera House has become. The staff has
given the Opera House the nickname "The Tourist Machine". Every day, especially in the summer, the roof is full of people exploring the building,
enjoying a glass or a meal in the restaurants, or just admiring the beautiful scenery of Oslo city and the Oslo fjord. It was not expected that
the building would be such a famous tourist attraction. An example to illustrate the popularity of the Opera House is the fact that the budget
for toilet paper was exceeded within three months after the Opera House opened.
The fact that the Opera house is one of Oslo's most visited sites emphasizes which perfect arena this is for demonstrating energy-effective
technologies such as the south-facing glass façade with solar cells. |
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WANT TO KNOW MORE? |
If you have any questions about our project, please contact:
Peter Weitzmann
Project Manager
Energy Department
Phone: +45 4597 2397
E-mail: Peter Weitzmann |
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