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Segreen Business Park, developed by CBRE Global Investors and designed by Lombardini22, has recently been awarded LEED Platinum Certification (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), the highest rating for energy and environmental design.
The development is the first refurbished project in Italy to receive such prestigious commendation.
The Segreen Business Park received LEED Gold rating in 2013, under the LEED BD+C: Core and Shell v2 certification system, and won the 2013 REBuild first prize, a leading competition in Europe for sustainable building retrofit. Segreen Business Park is an example of property redevelopment and a place geared to the future and sustainability. It is the result of the conversion of an inefficient and energy-consuming building into a complex in line with the demands of the most innovative and demanding companies.
Thanks to the implementation of a cutting-edge building technologies and a careful attention was dedicated to safeguarding and respecting both the environment and people, the development has already achieved tangible results such as:
20% yearly savings on electricity which would be enough to power 400 flats for a year.
60% annual water savings, equivalent to 100.000 showers.
35% of building material was reused for retrofit purposes, which is equivalent to 3.000 trees saved.
Among the sustainability features incorporated into the building:
• Use of renewable sources to optimise consumption levels
• Position and shape of complex designed to improve its technical ratings
• Fixed and motor-driven shading systems to reduce summer energy influx and exploit winter daylight
• Contracts for energy supply from 100% renewable sources
• Ecological island sufficient to meet campus needs and differentiated collection
• Maximising of the use of natural lighting
• High heat-insulation capacity both for the solid-walled sections and glazed facades
• Specific energy models for exploiting the building’s heat mass
• Management of water resources with a reduction in the use of drinking water and drawing of re-immersion water from wells
• Green roof on buildings Y-Z
Source: Lombardini22
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