The ARTERY Business Centre in Vilnius has achieved BREEAM International New Construction certification with a rating of “Outstanding”. That is the highest possible assessment for compliance with green building standards – a distinction very few buildings in the Baltic region have earned.
Sustainability from design to operations
Marius Žemaitis, a Fund Manager at Lords LB Asset Management, the business centre’s developer, notes that sustainability was a top priority throughout the design and construction of this A+ energy efficiency class building in the Lithuanian capital.
“We set ourselves the goal of making the ARTERY one of the most sustainable and modern business centres in the Baltics. The building is designed to guarantee a high level of functionality and comfort for tenants while having as little impact on the environment as possible. Sustainability is now often one of the most important factors companies consider when choosing a new office,” says Žemaitis.
The BREEAM New Construction rating of “Outstanding” indicates that every stage of the building’s life cycle – from initial design proposals to the end of construction – has been carried out in accordance with the highest sustainability criteria.
“From a BREEAM perspective, the ARTERY is an extremely environmentally friendly building which takes good care not only of the environment, but also of the health and well-being of the people that work in it,” says Kęstutis Kvietkauskas, Managing Director of the SEES Group, a company that provides expert assessments of the sustainability of buildings.
Innovative environmentally friendly solutions
The ARTERY building incorporates numerous advanced engineering solutions that make it a truly great place to work without a large footprint on the environment. State-of-the-art approaches make resource management more efficient while also keeping office workers comfortable and productive.
A special humidification, heating, air conditioning and ventilation system, for example, ensures an optimal microclimate everywhere in the building. It uses excess heat from one room to heat others, and controls carbon dioxide and humidity levels in all rooms to maintain ideal human conditions.
“All the innovative solutions allow heating and ventilation costs at this business centre to be just half what they are at other similar buildings, so companies that locate here not only have an excellent microclimate but pay less for it,” Žemaitis says.
The ARTERY is equipped with electricity-generating smart elevators which predictively adapt to passenger flows so that even at peak times the wait for a lift is not more than 30 seconds.
Electricity-generating facade panels are another environmentally friendly technology that reduce tenants’ operating costs. The solar modules in the panels of the business centre’s smaller tower have a capacity of 55 kWh and can produce about 55,000 kWh of electricity per year.
For electric cars the ARTERY offers 28 charging points and thus is one of the largest such facilities in Vilnius. The complex also features a charging point for electric scooters and a bicycle storage facility.
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