Envac Waste Collection Station Stockholm, Stora Ursvik building, Sweden development, Swedish architecture
Envac Waste Collection Station, Stora Ursvik, Sweden
New Swedish BREAAM Excellent Industrial Building design by Tengbom Architects
9 Nov 2016
Design: Tengbom, Architects
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Envac Waste Collection Station in Stora Ursvik
SWEDEN’S FIRST BREEAM CERTIFIED INDUSTRIAL BUILDING ANNOUNCED
Envac’s waste collection station in the district of Stora Ursvik, just north of Stockholm, has become the first industrial building in Sweden to secure BREAAM certification after it received the coveted ‘Excellent’ rating – the second highest accolade in BREEAM’s programme.
Photos by Åke E:son Lindman
Envac Waste Collection Station – Stora Ursvik Building
BREEAM is the world’s leading sustainability assessment method for masterplanning projects, infrastructure and building. The BREEAM assessment evaluates the procurement, design, construction and operation of a development against targets based on performance benchmarks. Developments can receive one of five levels of certification including Pass, Good, Very Good, Excellent and Outstanding.
The waste of 4,500 apartments and a school in Stora Ursvik is collected by the 300 Envac waste inlets situated throughout the site and transported, via airflow, along a pipe network measuring 3km in length to the central waste collection station. Three waste streams including general waste, food waste and paper are collected through the system.
The collection station is located within a building enveloped by a 250m2 green wall containing 2,000 plants and over 20 varieties of grass and herbs. The living wall has ensured that one of the only aboveground components of the Envac system, which is able to significantly reduce the amount of space required for waste collection compared with traditional methods, blends seamlessly into the environment.
Tengbom, one of Scandinavia’s most prominent architectural practices, designed the Envac waste collection station on behalf of Sundbyberg municipality.
On securing BREEAM’s Excellent rating Stellan Fryxell, project architect of the building and sustainability manager at the architectural firm, comments: “In addition to enhancing the visual nature of the Envac waste collection station the green wall, which we wanted to compensate for the land used in building the unit, also extends the life span of the building, filters pollution and cleans the air around it.
The overall design has many synergies with the sustainable nature of the Envac system and we’re delighted to be the architects behind Sweden’s first BREEAM certified industrial building and proud of the contribution we’ve made to Stora Ursvik’s urban realm.”
Since the scheme first launched in 1990 over 552,000 developments have become BREEAM certified. Almost 2,253,600 buildings across the globe are currently registered for assessment.
Joakim Karlsson, Chief Executive at Envac AB, adds: “This is a significant achievement for Tengbom, Sundbyberg municipality and, of course, Envac. Ensuring that the actual process of waste collection is as sustainable as possible is hugely important. However it is also important that all the other components that support this process share the same values.
Creating a building that not only enhances the aesthetical properties of this Swedish waste collection station by Tengbom Architects but also offsets its impact on the environment is a huge achievement and we applaud the team at Tengbom for their creativity, imagination and excellent design.”
For more information on Envac’s installation within Stora Ursvik visit Envac Stories for more information about the customer benefits of automated waste collection.
About Envac
Envac is a global leader in the vacuum waste collection industry having invented the automated underground vacuum waste system in 1961. Since then it has designed and installed over a thousand systems worldwide in residential areas, business premises, town centres, industrial kitchens, hospitals and airports.
Envac has 35 offices in 22 countries in Europe, North and South America, the Middle East and Asia.
Photographer: Åke E:son Lindman
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Location: Stora Ursvik, Stockholm, Sweden, northeast Europe
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