Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building » differentenergy http://inhabitat.com Green design & eco innovation for a better world Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:34:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Broad Pavilion at Shaghai World Expo Built in Under 24 Hours http://inhabitat.com/broad-pavilion-at-shaghai-world-expo-built-in-under-24-hours/ http://inhabitat.com/broad-pavilion-at-shaghai-world-expo-built-in-under-24-hours/#comments Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:20:01 +0000 differentenergy http://inhabitat.com/?p=148795
Believe it or not, the Broad Pavilion, one of 17 corporate pavilions at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, was completed in under 24 hours! The six-story energy-efficient structure was designed to use just 20 percent of the materials used by other pavilions of]]> broad pavilion, shaghai world expo, energy, passive design, eco architecture, different energy, green architecture, green building, green design, sustainable design

Believe it or not, the Broad Pavilion, one of 17 corporate pavilions at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, was completed in under 24 hours! The six-story energy-efficient structure was designed to use just 20 percent of the materials used by other pavilions of a comparable size. It also consumes just one-sixth of the energy of similar-sized pavilions due to a series of passive solar design techniques: 15cm thick insulation, triple-layered non-metallic framed windows, exterior shading and fresh air heat recovery. “We’ve been preparing for two months, but producing all the prefabricated parts in our factory took us less than a week,” said Fu Lixin, who oversaw the pavilion. Check out a time lapse video of the construction here and a video describing the pavilion here.

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