“World’s Most Sustainable Building”
The Edge, is a new building in Amsterdam that incorporates many interesting and important sustainable features.
Though the claim in the post title is perhaps a bit hubristic, the ideas and strategies used are just-plain common sense, well known and proven. The use of the Venturi-effect to draw office air into the atrium is interesting. Also the individually monitored “luminaires” which allow individual occupants to not only control their own work-stations temperature, and lighting level, but also allow them to view their energy usage via an app on their smartphones, and gives buildings owners and managers the tools they need to study how occupants use energy.
They have produced a slick video to demonstrate these features:
We are curious to see how these new integrated approaches to energy use visualiation and customization make their way into the market.
The abundance of glazing, with its low insulative value is less of a concern in climates like Amsterdam than in Toronto, where the low low’s and high high’s mean that more insulative materials are needed.
via: http://ecowatch.com/2015/06/08/worlds-most-sustainable-office-building/