Source: Green Building Press
The first commercial building outside the UK to achieve BREEAM outstanding is The Tower at Spielberk in Brno. BRE Director Martin Townsend awarded the certificate to Stefan de Goeij, Head of property management at CTP, for the office building which is located in the centre of the Czech Republic’s emerging high-tech city.
The building was designed by a team of Dutch and Czech architects known as Studio Acht, with features built in to reduce the CO2 emissions by over 50% compared to a typical building, built to Czech regulations. The building uses district heating, a heat exchanger and a heat recovery system and local renewable energy sources are used to power the building, with the façade of the concrete frame comprises of 50% reused materials.
7 innovation credits have been achieved for minimising construction site impacts, high levels of daylighting, avoidance of VOCs, use of renewable technologies, provision of alternative modes of transport, water sub-metering and management of construction site waste. The building also achieved 100% of available credits for Management, Health & Wellbeing and Waste sections.
The standard is becoming increasingly adopted in Europe and around the world as a way of demonstrating to investors, developers and the market that a building has been designed to be low carbon and sustainable.
Martin Townsend said ‘The benefits that achieving our standard brings are triple fold – not only reduced environmental impact buildings that are higher value assets with reduced running costs but ultimately well-designed buildings that are great to work which inspire increased productivity. The Tower at Spielberk is a great example of this. Congratulations to all partners involved with this project’.
7 innovation credits have been achieved for minimising construction site impacts, high levels of daylighting, avoidance of VOCs, use of renewable technologies, provision of alternative modes of transport, water sub-metering and management of construction site waste. The building also achieved 100% of available credits for Management, Health & Wellbeing and Waste sections.
The standard is becoming increasingly adopted in Europe and around the world as a way of demonstrating to investors, developers and the market that a building has been designed to be low carbon and sustainable.
Martin Townsend said ‘The benefits that achieving our standard brings are triple fold – not only reduced environmental impact buildings that are higher value assets with reduced running costs but ultimately well-designed buildings that are great to work which inspire increased productivity. The Tower at Spielberk is a great example of this. Congratulations to all partners involved with this project’.