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  • Heating network in Villmergen utilises local waste wood

    Heating network in Villmergen utilises local waste wood

    On 16 November, AEW Energie AG celebrated the start of construction of the heating centre in the Villmerg industrial area with a ground-breaking ceremony. The heating centre will be built on the Cellpack Power Systems site. According to a press release, it will initially be equipped with a boiler for waste wood with a nominal output of 2,000 kilowatts and an oil-fired boiler for peak loads with a nominal output of 4,000 kilowatts.

    The plant will supply heat for the first time at the end of 2024. It will replace around 710,000 cubic metres of natural gas and thus avoid the emission of 1500 tonnes of CO2. A further waste wood boiler with a nominal output of 4000 kilowatts is to be added in the final stage. This should also be able to supply other companies in the industrial area. The expansion of the heating network to neighbouring areas is being considered.

    Most of the waste wood will come from untreated wood waste from the industrial estate and will be supplemented with wood from the region as required. The proportion of oil for the peak load should not exceed 10 per cent. A photovoltaic system will be installed on the roof and on two sides of the heating centre. This will achieve a peak output of 260 kilowatts.

  • Halter AG wins tender for ewb site

    Halter AG wins tender for ewb site

    The real estate developer Halter from Schlieren has won the tender for the development of the ewb site in Bern’s Ausserholligen district. A “sustainable, lively and diversely mixed working and living environment” is to be created there, according to a media release.

    According to the statement, the Halter team’s plans call for three high-rise buildings on the site, which was previously used primarily for industrial purposes, between the Weyermannshaus sports and leisure facility and Europaplatz. One high-rise is to become the new ewb headquarters. In the other two buildings, the newly founded Viadukt cooperative plans to house 220 flats.

    Public transport as well as pedestrian and bicycle traffic will be given priority over private motorised transport. This will be ensured, among other things, by three S-Bahn stops as well as trams and buses.

    The electricity for the neighbourhood will come from photovoltaic systems on roofs and facades. Foundation piles, groundwater and waste heat sources are to be used for local heat and cold production and storage.

    “The concept of the winning project gives us the opportunity to realise our new headquarters in a newly created environment that meets the high sustainability standards of the city of Bern and ewb,” said Cornelia Mellenberger, CEO of ewb, according to a media release at the presentation of the winning project on 3 April in the presence of Mayor Alec von Graffenried and other stakeholders.

    All the competition projects can be viewed at the Forsthaus energy centre from 22 to 26 May.