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In Paris, as the world’s top athletes go for gold in front of the cameras, the organizers are aiming high behind-the-scenes. The event infrastructure is designed to champion low carbon approaches across construction, transport and operations and highlight the potential of sustainable development.
“Large-scale projects can consume immense resources and leave a negative lasting legacy in terms of their carbon footprint unless they’re designed with sustainability in mind from the start,” says Juliette Medana, Head of Sustainability Consulting – EMEA at JLL.
Like in London in 2012 or Vancouver in 2010, having a longer-term strategy for reusing or repurposing buildings is also important to making a positive environmental and social impact. Vancouver’s energy-efficient athlete village was repurposed as mixed-use community space with a district energy system recovering heat from wastewater.
In Paris, the aquatic centre will remain a permanent structure while the athletes’ accommodation will be repurposed into housing and office space as part of a mixed-use development. The design also promotes nature and biodiversity to protect against urban heat islands and the impact of climate change.
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