Six of the stadia for the FIFA World Cup in Russia in 2018 will be assessed under the BREEAM standard.
A key sustainable feature of the new stadia will be highly energy efficient lighting designed to achieve international best practice standards for light quality, with automated lighting controls.
Overall energy consumption in the venues is therefore projected to be 40 per cent less than comparable baseline buildings, with savings achieved through reduced building fabric U-values, efficient heating with heat recovery, and efficient ventilation with CO2 sensors.
Ksenia Agapova, associate director at Jones Lang Lasalle in Moscow, who is acting as BREEAM advisor on three projects – the stadia at Samara, Volgograd and Nizhniy Novgorod – said: “The World Cup 2018 stadia, designed to BREEAM standards, will raise the bar of sustainable design and construction in Russia,” she said. “Regulations in green building are not well developed here and few incentives exist for implementation of green technologies.
"We are looking forward to successful completion of these projects and expected increased public awareness of green building, as these venues attract a lot of attention.”
During the preparation of the design briefs for the venues, a series of consultations were undertaken with representatives from local communities, business groups, football clubs, the organising committee and local authorities. Experience of construction of other sports venues was applied in the form of design guidance from FIFA, as well as learning from similar projects around the world.
