Multi Development's Centrum Galerie Dresden wins the BREEAM International Sustainability Award

During Ecobuild, the world’s biggest and most important event for sustainable design, construction and the built environment, in London on Wednesday March 3, Mr. Arco Rehorst, Technical Director and Chairman of the Sustainability Committee of Multi Development was presented with BREEAM’s 2010 International award for Centrum Galerie Dresden.

Carol Atkinson, Chief Executive and Martin Townsend, Director of BRE Global, awarded Centrum Galerie Dresden as being the first building in Germany – and the first shopping mall in continental Europe – to receive BREEAM Excellent.

The centre combines international retail stores, restaurants, a day-care centre and multi-storey car park, with highly attractive architecture and outstanding sustainability credentials.

Careful use of resources and optimal energy and space consumption has been critical to the project since planning began in 2006. It includes the most advanced technologies – all lifts, for example, have an energy saving mode and an energy recovery system, with active return of excess energy to the grid, natural ventilation technologies for the Mall and Photovoltaic panels etc.