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A beacon for<br />
gre<strong>en</strong> technology<br />
The future is being<br />
redesigned at Smart City<br />
Graz. The Sci<strong>en</strong>ce Tower, for<br />
whose construction Grätzel<br />
<strong>en</strong>ergy glass was used on<br />
a large scale for the first<br />
time in the world, forms the<br />
technological heart.<br />
The building shows how<br />
intellig<strong>en</strong>tly and sustainably<br />
gre<strong>en</strong> tech can alter our<br />
urban <strong>en</strong>vironm<strong>en</strong>t.<br />
Graz in Austria is growing constantly, and it needs<br />
smart planning to be able to master the future’s<br />
chall<strong>en</strong>ges. In Smart City Graz, a district is being<br />
created close to the main station which promises<br />
just that. Urban structures are being re-imagined,<br />
existing buildings are being consolidated and the<br />
new living space is being connected to a good<br />
public transport network. Intellig<strong>en</strong>t building and<br />
façade technology doing their work quietly in the<br />
background turn the buildings into power plants<br />
whose electricity is used up within the district itself.<br />
This district’s beacon project and literal beacon is<br />
the Sci<strong>en</strong>ce Tower which has be<strong>en</strong> op<strong>en</strong>ed rec<strong>en</strong>tly.<br />
Costing 16 million Euros and standing 60 metres<br />
tall, the tower serves as the world’s first power load<br />
tower that – in its function of a ‘living lab’ – links<br />
research, developm<strong>en</strong>t and industry. It furthermore
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