GROUP SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2010
GREEN URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Many cities now recognise the need to undertake a sustainability restoration phase to consider future energy, water and transport requirements, together with environmental impacts and other important issues such as the provision of employment and food. Although similar issues are being considered in developing countries, there the focus is on planning new cities, and the enlargement of smaller towns and cities into new cities or mega-cities.
WSP offers a wide range of design and engineering solutions that, when integrated, can help transform the built environment. This integration is key, as the lesson learnt from the past is that when sustainability issues were considered, it was often in isolation and at too later stage in the process. The following case studies provide some examples of how a more multi- disciplinary approach is paying off.
STOCKHOLM ROYAL SEAPORT, SWEDEN
WSP is helping the City of Stockholm to transform the Royal Seaport, Norra Djugårdsstaden, a former industrial part of the city, into an urban waterfront development for sustainable living, business and leisure. From 2010, Stockholm Royal Seaport will experience incremental growth of approximately 500 residences each year. The accommodation will consist of rented fl ats as well as housing for tenant-ownership. When Stockholm Royal Seaport is fully developed in 2025, it will have a total of 10,000 new fl ats and 30,000 places of work. The fi rst residents will move into the northern district of Hjorthagen in 2012.
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Our efforts will reduce the energy consumption of the buildings by 30%.
Developing an environmentally sustainable city district within a genuine city environment puts extra demands on technological innovations and using energy effi cient materials, as well as fi nding new ways of handling energy as a whole. Based on the City´s vision, WSP has developed proposals for fi rm goals in the areas of
energy, water and waste. We have also worked to achieve landscaping, lifestyle, transport and climate-adaption measures commissioned by the City. Furthermore WSP has compiled detailed data on how energy end use can be halved compared to today’s norms and how small-scale renewable energy production can be introduced in this new city district.
WSP is also working directly with several of the building contractors and other service providers in Royal Seaport. We are designing, developing and managing projects with energy and environmental management to realise the high ambitions.
Our efforts will reduce the energy consumption of the buildings by 30% and lower the residents’ carbon footprint to 1.5 tonnes per person per year, compared with the norm of 4 tonnes.
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