Objective
IRTUS Project - Aims at the development of a general technical, financial and organisational approach for implementing maximised integration of energy saving and Renewable Energy into sports facilities. This concrete general approach or energy saving and renewable energy package will be validated with four case studies:
- Training facility for the Portuguese Football Team;
- Olympic Games facilities and large urban buildings in Maroussi;
- Rehabilitation and extension of the Feyenoord stadium in Rotterdam; and
- New sports facility in the municipality of Ballerup (Denmark).
Description of the work:
IRTUS intends to develop an overall masterplan and its integration in involved municipalities according to specific characteristics. This masterplan includes technical, financial and organisational approach for implementing maximised integration of RET in sports facilities and related urban areas:
In Sintra - Portugal, a training centre facility for the National football team will be built including a hotel, a school, a swimming-pool and greens distributed by 10 ha and with 23,280 m(2) gross area. Solar energy both for heating and cooling purposes as well as for electricity production is envisaged. Biomass from forest residues will complement the heating needs. Also a concrete study will be developed to integrate as maximum as possible RES on sports and recreational facilities, either existing or new ones. Due to retardments with the beginning of the project by the Portuguese Football Federation, the owner of the project, we propose to European Commission a amendment to the contract with a view to change the case study. The new proposed case study is the EMA - Municipal Stadium of Aveiro, located at Aveiro, a city in the centre oceanic coast of Portugal. The stadium was projected for support the 2004 Europe Football Championship, with a full house of 31.196 seatplaces.
In Maroussi - Greece, the urban area where 70 % of all athletic facilities for the 2004 Athens Olympic Games will be located (the Olympic Stadium, the Olympic Swimming Pool, large athletic, commercial and services complexes) a detailed energy survey has been carried out, including full data gathering for all its large energy consumers . The municipality's specific energy areas and facilities that are most appropriate for effective RES interventions, have been identified.
These facilities, selected mainly because of their importance in the Maroussi Olympics Preparation Plan (OPP), include:
1.The Maroussi Media Village for the 2004 Olympics;
2.The existing Municipal Swimming Pool "M.Manios";
3.The new "KARELA" Athletic Park (KAP), where a training baseball field and an ice -skating arena will be built;
4.The new 10,000 m2 office building, co-owned by the Municipality;
5.The new municipal Traffic Education Park
6.The new light tram system in Maroussi
Feasibility studies, including preliminary techno-economic design, for the six RES- related projects listed above are currently being carried out, in order to propose specific RES interventions in terms of solar active systems usage, bioclimatic design (heating/cooling/lighting), and photovoltaics.
In Rotterdam - Netherlands, based on the Feyenoord experiences, Ecofys set up a method to implement renewable energies in football stadiums. With this outline Ecofys approached football stadiums in the Netherlands. First, the Sparta stadium (also in Rotterdam) and latter the Fortuna Sittard stadium (in Sittard). Through the Ecofys subsidiaries in Germany and Poland, Ecofys also approached football stadiums in Bayern Leverkussen, Koln(FC Koln), Borussia Monchen Gladbach, Leipzig, Frankfurt (Walsdtadion) and Lech Poznan (Poland).Unfortunately, Ecofys did not succed in performing a case study at any of these football stadiums. However, Ecofys did put a lot of work in promoting Renewable Energies.
Case study: Now, the approach will be applied to a large swimming pool in Leverkussen (32,000 expected visitors a year). This study is now ongoing and is expected to be finished in June 2002. It follows to a large extent the earlier defined approach. Additionally, Ecofys developed a tool to perform feasibility studies to accommodate energy savings in local sport centres. This tool has been used by national sport branch organisations (under their own brand) in the Netherlands to accommodate energy savings.
Ballerup/Maaloev - Denmark, a municipal sports centre built in 70's will be rehabilitate in an energy efficient way and to construct a new and larger sports hall, where renewable energies are included in the energy supply. This could be solar heating for showers and hot water, solar cells for the electricity and the use of biomass for co-generation.
An architectural competition has been held and an architectural company selected for the final project design. Recently a contractor has been found and the construction work has started. The overall design criteria for the new sports hall has been that it should be energy efficient and that environmental friendly materials should be used. Preliminary funding for a PV plant has been established. Further negotiations with the architect, the city of Ballerup will reveal the possibilities for the location of the plant and additional funding sought.
Innovation: Sport facilities are very interesting places to integrate renewables for example because of a) the ratio of thermal energy consumption for baths and swimming pool all year long b) the large floor and roof space they cover and c) the immense publicitairy effect they can have on the masses of people using them! Nevertheless the use of renewables is not a common practice. Cooling is a main problem to be solved in Mediterranean countries, field heating in winter a problem to be solved in northern European countries. Natural cooling will take a special concern to be integrated into new residential buildings. Combining solar with biomass the total thermal energy needs could be performed including complemented cooling using absorption cycles. Photovoltaics integration on rooftops and car parking could supply the total electric energy needs in balance with the power network. This is the way to supply the maximum of the energy needs to a sport facility an innovative aspect to be developed here.
Dissemination: The Sintra / Rotterdam / Ballerup part of the IRTUS project will develop an innovative marketing concept to obtain private money for the realisation of the RES. Part this will be done by selling CD-ROM with a virtual in site viewing including RE implementation and how to finance and implement it in sport facilities. A dedicated web-page for the results dissemination is envisaged.
Expected results:
In buildings
- Intoduction of energetic efficiency measures to minimise energy needs;
- Maximum use of renewables;
- Water consumption reduction and recycling;
- Introduction of solar passive systems (bioclimatic architecture)and application of photovoltaic solar systems and small solar collectors (1-2 m(2)) for hot water production in houses and apartments;
- urban area of Municipality of Amarousion connected to the Olympic Games 2004;
- In sport facilities, introduction of solar heating for showers and solar cells for electricity production and biomass for co-generation.
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