Oslo pursues its green wave businesses

The city of Oslo, the green capital of Norway mobilizes the businesses to reduce their climate gas footprint, had elected Nordic-Office of Architecture to expand the 115,000 sqm of Oslo Airport to set new standards in sustainability.

The project of the expansion is to double the size of the existing terminal building with the addition of a new 300m long pier. Contractor Nordic’s design aims to increase the airport capacity from 19 million to an anticipated future capacity of 30 million.

To ensure a holistic approach to sustainability as much as possible, the snow from the runways will be collected and stored during wintertime, to be used as coolant during the summer time. Natural materials have been used throughout the building: the new pier entirely clad in timber sourced from Scandinavian forest, recycled steel and special concrete mixed with volcanic ash. This process allows the building’s CO² to be reduced by 35%.

Enhanced levels of insulation mean the project has achieved Passive House level performance standards. Energy consumption in the new expansion has been cut by more than 50% compared to the existing terminal.

With this new expansion, Oslo Airport is known as the greenest terminal in the world.