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   jambles wrote 2 months ago

   What kind of eco elements were added with the recent building upgrades to croke park i wonder? Anyone know?

   Promoting the park as a green carbon neutral space is a great way to get the message to sporting types!

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   Cill25 replied 2 months ago

   Hi Jambles,
   The ESB have sustainability engineers working in Croke Park. Recently they've added recycling stations, wheelie bins for recycling plastic bottles, cardboard balers and a recyclable compactor. Plans are underway to further develop recycling facilities at the stadium with the introduction of plastic bailing and wet waste composting of food waste.
   At same time they are planning more bike park stations making it easier for people to cycle the games without worrying about stolen bike.
   They have also just signed up to a "green electricity" tariff meaning that Croke Park will be able to cut its carbon emissions from 4,500 tonnes to approx 1,000 tonnes – providing the stadium with electricity that is 100 percent derived from renewable sources, in this case mostly wind turbines
   On a heavier level they are working through their options for sustainable energy within the stadium - considering wind, solar and geothermal, analysing the cost/benefit over long term,
   Will keep group posted on latest updates as they arise. Hoping that there will be a Cul Green blog in time that will allow those working on it within the stadium to report directly on day to day work

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   Nils replied about 1 month ago

   I was looking around on the culgreen website and I read the first article from May 9th where it said "Croke Park will immediately contract its electricity supply from a renewable source and an energy efficiency audit will be conducted by ESB to establish how the stadium can most rapidly become carbon neutral."
   I know that Croke Park gets it electricity from a renewable source now which I think is great!! I was just wondering where I can find the results of the energy efficient audit and what Croke Park did in order to become more energy efficient because I couldn't find an article about that.
   Thanks.

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   Cill25 replied about 1 month ago

   Hi Nils,
   I will find out about that and come back - see if the audit is publicly available
   Cheers

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   Busybee replied about 1 month ago

   Hi, is the audit publicly available?

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