April 2010 SCA is moving its headquarters next to the new Waterfront Building in downtown Stockholm. Waterfront, which will be completed newxt year, is being built with the latest environmental technology.
“Waterfront meets a number of requirements for the environmentally friendly workplace of the future, which together with cost considerations has been important in our decision,” says Gordana Landén, SCA’s senior vice president of human resources.
Glass façade heat converted into warm water
The building is expected to be twice as energy-efficient as the EU’s Green Building Standard. Smart solutions move energy between the different areas of the building. Among other features, heat in the glass facades will be converted into warm water that is distributed to cooler parts of the building.
Cooling will be produced using water from Lake Klara, the canal that runs through central Stockholm. Inside the building, a reservoir of 250 tons of water freezes at night and is then used to cool the premises during the day.
Source Shape 2/2009 Image waterfrontbuildning.se