The Crystal Palace will set the example for energy-efficient construction
Wednesday, 21 April 2010 07:55
The new office building will meet the highest environmental standards, considering that it was designed with a special emphasis on caring for the environment and saving energy.

The Crystal Palace design thus especially focuses on caring for the environmental and saving energy. It is an energy-efficient construction built according to high environmental standards.

The solar power plant


The electric production systems will be integrated into the Crystal Palace’s southern façade in order to generate electricity from solar power. This type of electric energy production is environmentally friendly and will be returned to the supplier’s distribution network in full. The supplier is planning to sell the solar energy later on the market as green energy.

The solar power plant will run at 100 kW peak power, which results in 70 tons less CO2 emissions in just one year.

Remote heating system


The construction will be connected to the remote heating supply system of the Energetika Ljubljana Company. The technological process of energy production along with simultaneous thermal and electric energy production enables the optimum primary fuel utilization, which from the viewpoint of energy-efficiency proves to be the best option for utilizing fuel for heating requirements.

Ice accumulators


Ice accumulators are intended for cooling and are meant to store ice at night when there is more energy accumulated. In the daytime, this ice will then be used to cool the building.

This will enable the building to operate with steady electric energy power thus avoiding electrical spikes or an overload to the distribution network, especially on hot summer nights. The amount of electric energy spent on cooling will decrease as well, thanks to the use of windows with the lowest permeating factor of solar radiation.

The cooling towers will depend on rainwater kept in a special pool in the basement rather than use the drinking water from water supply network.