The Swiss Federal Office for Buildings and Logistics (FOBL) is currently realizing several new construction and renovation projects for the Federal Office of Sport (BASPO) in Magglingen in Switzerland, so a release today . At the same time, a large part of the energy supply is being renewed. In the future, buildings are to be supplied with geothermal or geothermal energy from a depth of around 1,300 meters. This is a first for federal buildings. With the switch to geothermal energy, CO2 emissions are reduced by over 90 percent.

The National Sports Center in Magglingen (NSM) has dozens of buildings such as sports halls, accommodation, training facilities, sports medicine rooms and administrative buildings. Most buildings today are heated with gas. These decentralized gas heating systems are now to be replaced by the environmentally friendly heat source geothermal energy. The centrally generated geothermal energy is distributed to all existing and new buildings via a new district heating network. If the annual CO2 emissions are more than 1,300 tons today, they will drop by over 90 percent to around 70 tons in the future.

Warm deep water for the district heating network

Geothermal energy is a practically emission-free source of energy. The entire heat demand of the NSM infrastructure of more than […]

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