Trondheim Kommune has already started the process of reducing the energy consumption and the result shows that with these changes, the energy consumption went down by 3,3 % from the first half of 2014 to the first half of 2015. This is from a rapport done with 650 000m2 of the buildings in town and their use of energy. As the graph above shows, the sports halls and nursing homes were the one with the biggest decrease. According to energy consultant Henrik Lindgaard, there are several reasons for the decreasing in the total energy consumption in Trondheim Kommune (Trondheim Kommune, 2017). Some of the reasons are due to the new and more energy efficient buildings that we are developing, as well as the new technology integrated into the building
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To get a wider understanding of what sustainable development can mean to Trondheim city, I would like to have a look at a few examples of how sustainable buildings are being built in this city and what these buildings are doing to the community and the environment of the city. I will focus the comparison of case studies on three projects in Trondheim; Powerhouse Brattøra, the Zeb Living Lab and Brøset. These projects are different in a lot of ways, and I will try to explain how they are different as well as which functions each of them are using to become sustainable. This to understand better how, if I were to build a sustainable building in Trondheim, what I would need to consider and what I would need to know beforehand of the environment as well as the building industries in …show more content…
This is a great idea, so that the public can gather at one place and the workers that will work in the building won’t have to go far to get lunch or just a break from the office. The building`s location close to the railway station is also good for public transportation of the workers and visitors, so that the need for parking slots at Brattøra don’t need to be such an issue. Miljøpakken also has a few walking and biking paths around that area, as well as Trondheim Turistforening which takes care of all the tourist routes around the city, just opened a city walk path which stops by that location of Brattøra on its
To get a wider understanding of what sustainable development can mean to Trondheim city, I would like to have a look at a few examples of how sustainable buildings are being built in this city and what these buildings are doing to the community and the environment of the city. I will focus the comparison of case studies on three projects in Trondheim; Powerhouse Brattøra, the Zeb Living Lab and Brøset. These projects are different in a lot of ways, and I will try to explain how they are different as well as which functions each of them are using to become sustainable. This to understand better how, if I were to build a sustainable building in Trondheim, what I would need to consider and what I would need to know beforehand of the environment as well as the building industries in …show more content…
This is a great idea, so that the public can gather at one place and the workers that will work in the building won’t have to go far to get lunch or just a break from the office. The building`s location close to the railway station is also good for public transportation of the workers and visitors, so that the need for parking slots at Brattøra don’t need to be such an issue. Miljøpakken also has a few walking and biking paths around that area, as well as Trondheim Turistforening which takes care of all the tourist routes around the city, just opened a city walk path which stops by that location of Brattøra on its