Carbon neutral building

The story

The client, an Australian private investment fund, asked Strive! to analyze it’s iconic 5 office buildings in Zaventem in order to increase it’s ESG value.

Strive! went further than that and convinced the client to go for a carbon neutral solution. Strive is responsible for developing the sustainability plan, tendering, financing & performing the project management of the measures.

Iconic office building

Built in 2001
ESG challenges
Owner walks the talk

Technics

Active glass facade wall
Free cooling
Building management system (BMS)
1,5 MW gas boilers
700 kW cooling

Measures

4 pipe CO2 heat pump
New BMS
Optimizing AHU’s
Solar panels
Relighting

Strive

Sustainability plan
Tendering measures
Project management of all measures
Financing measures

Goals

Smarter use of technical installations
Remove gas consumption
BREEAM Very Good

Foreseen results

CO2-footprint reduced by 100%
Gas consumption -100%, electricity -20%
Renewable energy 36% of total consumption