Expo Center to lead the "energy saving, green, sustainable" new atmosphere

As the World Expo in Shanghai, China (Shanghai, 2010), one of the five new permanent buildings of the Expo Center, the official completion of the 25 on the. Energy saving, green and sustainable, becoming the three distinctive characteristics of the Expo Center to lead China's new large-scale public buildings.

Is the Expo Center in World Expo held during the high-level forum, held an important place for celebrations, VIP reception and collecting and distributing news, 414 meters long, 99 meters wide, 39 meters high, the total construction area of 142 thousand square meters, like a sharp "big building" stands in the Yellow River in Pujiang.

Although like many large public buildings, the Expo Center is the extensive use of glass curtain wall, but which bears such mysteries: full of sunshine of the south facade, a metal mesh and inert gas double glass curtain wall, sunshade, heat insulation effect; the North facade without Sun Yu, with a large area of transparent glass curtain full of natural lighting and can enjoy the beauty of the Huangpu river.

The Expo Center adjacent to the Huangpu River to play the advantages of the river water, ice storage, chilled water storage, rainwater collection and other new energy conversion technology, photovoltaic power plant installed 1000 kilowatts installed on the roof, the estimated annual capacity of nearly 1 million degrees, and can enter the municipal power grid.

It is responsible for the construction of the Expo Center, Shanghai World Expo (Group) Co., Ltd. chairman Dai Liu introduced, preliminary estimates, the Expo Center, every year can save energy consumption of 2160 tons of standard coal, coal conversion is equivalent to more than 10 thousand Shanghai residents a year electricity supply; annual savings of 160 thousand tons of tap water, equivalent to the total annual water consumption in Shanghai more than 1 thousand households.

In the Expo Center, a 2000 square meters, can accommodate up to 600 people in the middle of the conference hall, lighting all the use of semiconductor lighting technology, to achieve the green lighting technology from the landscape to the practical leap. 2600 people at the Expo Center Hall, 4000 square meters in the central hall, semiconductor lighting and display technology have been used in different degrees, to avoid the "electric tiger become the Expo center".

In addition to the green lighting technology, the Expo Center also introduced a large number of indoor green plants, with "water curtain wall information and drip irrigation; on the selection of marble, stainless steel, aluminum and other wood building materials Expo Center, green, innovation, production and transportation distance principle, enhance the green degree of the whole building"".

According to the Expo Center project manager Feng Ning introduced at the beginning of the design, according to the Shanghai World Expo "city, better life" theme of the Expo Center is the introduction of a large number of relevant domestic and foreign building energy saving, environmental protection standard and strictly enforced, and not only in the large, luxurious, gas sent.

At present, the Expo Center has received a three-star green building design evaluation Chinese logo, and plans through operation test next year's declaration, the highest award in the field of green building and the United States China.

According to the plan, in the first half of the World Expo after the end of the Expo Center will be transformed into a world-class hardware level conference center; 2600 people in the hall, 3000 people banquet hall, 5000 multi-function hall can according to the demand, expansion or segmentation, film screenings, organized cultural activities and reception. Service for ordinary people.

Expo Center Construction in June 2007, the peak season construction number 2500, 2 and a half years of construction schedule for about one and a half years earlier than conventional time. In addition to the Expo Center, Shanghai, World Expo, the remaining four new permanent buildings are: China Pavilion, Theme Pavilion, performing arts center and Expo axis.