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Olympic Athletes' Villages Meet Green Building Standards
Friday, March 5, 2010
Since 1994, there have been three official pillars of the Olympics: Sport, culture and sustainability. And at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, Vancover was committed to producing a greener Olympics than any seen before.
The athletes' villages and eight of the nine new venues were built to qualify for the United States' Green Building Council's "silver" level of energy-efficient design, with some going for gold.
One example is the Richmond Oval, a speed-skating rink, which boasts a 26,000 square-meter roof built from trees that had already been killed by pine-beetle infestation, rainwater tanks for the flushing of its toilets, and a system that puts the waste heat from its refrigeration system to good use, among other smart, green design features.
No that the winter games are over, there are plans to convert the Richmond rink into a community center, as well as refit many of the other buildings.
Source: www.economist.com
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