Emissions targets prompt organisational ‘rethink’ on everything from food to building materials
When athletes arrive at their accommodation for the Paris Olympics, they will find buildings where air-conditioning has been ditched in favour of a cooling system that uses the currents of the Seine to reduce the temperature. By using more eco-friendly materials, such as wood and low carbon cement, and deploying heavy insulation, the accommodation has been constructed to be six degrees cooler inside than out.
Aside from sports venues, the new athletes village — to be converted to housing after the games — has been built with 30 per cent fewer emissions per square metre, when compared with a similar type of structure using fewer climate-friendly methods, says Grenon. Should rooms could become too hot — in a 2003 heatwave, Paris temperatures neared 40C and France suffered almost 15,000 heat-related deaths — air conditioning units are available to hire.
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