Page 300 - Sustainable Cities and Communities Design Handbook

274 Sustainable Cities and Communities Design Handbook

Malmo ¨
Malmo ¨ is Sweden’s third largest city with a population over 300,000 and the
goal to use 100% renewable energy by 2030. Like Stockholm it has heavily
focused on sustainable urbanization and in the year 2016 won the European
Union’s Sustainable Urban Mobility Award. The city has multiple sustainable
construction projects, having started since 1998, committed to reducing the
amount of GHG emitted.
l Sustainable Hilda is one such area, a housing cooperative targeting 767
apartments and 2400 residents with the goal to become energy independent
by 2020. The 2014 goals include achieving a 50% reduction of CO 2
emissions, reducing energy and water consumption 40%, generating
10,000 kWh of renewable energy, and the participation of 70% of target
residents. Renovations such as facade insulation retrofitting and low-flow
¸
faucets have been utilized to increase efficiency, as well as the installa-
tion of solar panels and rain collection systems (Malmo Stad).
l The Hyllie area is a planned sustainable district to encompass 10,000
homes and have power by 100% renewable or recycled resources by 2020.
The city of Malmo ¨, water and sewage municipal authority VA SYD, and
consulting company E.ON partnered in 2011 to create the most climate
friendly district in the region. The area is to integrate electricity, heating,
and cooling, and utilize a smart grid system to optimize energy resources,
measure and influence energy usage, and use storage capacity when energy
supply and demand are not balanced. Five local developers have received
grants from the European Union for the BuildSmart project, meant to
demonstrate residential and commercial buildings with an energy usage
2
less than 60 kWh/m , less than half of Sweden’s average building energy
usage. Regarding transportation, buses are to be powered by fossil-free
fuels, such as waste by-product biogas, and the effects of electric vehi-
cles on the smart grid are to be studied in greater detail by E.ON (Malmo
Stad).
l The Western Harbor (Va ¨stra Hamnen) is another brownfield redevelopment
project like Hammarby Sjo ¨stad in Stockholm. The development of the area
began in 2001 with the Bo01 project and has since continued. Developers
of the Bo01 were required to follow a green space factor guideline to
ensure water permeability and a green point guideline following 35 point
options such as reusing gray water in courtyards, having green roofs, and
scoring above a certain number. Energy in this original Bo01 development
came from 100% renewable sources, such as a 2-MW wind turbine in close
by Norra Hamnen, PV cells, and heat pumps, with district heating utilizing
2
geothermal energy and 1200 m of solar collectors (in 2016 there were
2
3000 m ) supplying the rest of the heating and cooling demands. Buildings
were given a target energy usage, and although they did not reach this