OSLO AIRPORT KEEPS GREENING ITS DESIGN, EVEN AFTER ECO-REVAMP DELIVERS SUSTAINABILITY
May 1st, 2021
When a terminal extension at Norway’s Oslo Gardermoen Airport was opened in 2017, it became the first airport terminal in the world to achieve a rating of excellent under the international sustainability standard BREEAM.
It has subsequently achieved owner’s Avinor’s design objective of doubling floorspace and passenger capacity while reducing energy consumption by 50% compared with the existing terminal – which already had one of the best energy efficiency records in the world.
Frode Fjeldstad, chief project manager at Denmark-based engineers COWI, said ...
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