An Energy Monitoring Brain Makes This Building the sector’s First Zero Carbon Convention Center [Architecture]

It’s hardly ever (ever?) that a practice center is anything worth being fascinated by, but Ireland’s new Convention Centre Dublin uses ingenius engineering and an omniscient mother brain to observe and adjust itself. The outcome? Zero carbon footprint.

Every aspect of the CCD’s design has been finely tuned to stop waste-despite possessing enough room for a performance hall, giant auditorium, and enough floorspace for 8,000 attendees. Engineers began with 6,000 lots of low carbon concrete. a great start. From there, things take a turn for the higher-tech: sophisticated heating and cooling systems that that use minimal amounts of juice, all linked up to a central computer that monitors environmental conditions in real time and adjusts electricity consumption accordingly.

When the building is full of guests, it even traps their radiating heat and water vapor to be stored for later use. The CCD even produces its own giant stores of ice to tap for a brief cool-off, no aircon required. And it doesn’t hurt that the place is pretty damn pretty, to boot. [ Inhabitat ]

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