Ambiente Online: Portuguese company creates headquarters with 'zero impact on the environment'

Article published in the website Água & Ambiente Online, about the construction of the Utopia Bulding, on april 24, 2014.

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"Plako, a Portuguese software solutions development company, intends to create a headquarters "with zero impact on the environment", which it will call the Utopia building. The project will be erected on a plot of land with more than one hectare in a small village next to the Cávado River, in the municipality of Póvoa de Lanhoso. To build the office complex, it will be necessary to use nearly two thousand used tires (using a construction technique developed by American eco-architect Michael Reynolds).

The company is also studying the trees in the area surrounding the building and will create a vegetable garden capable of meeting a large part of the canteen's needs. To achieve the goal of zero impact on the environment, there are also plans to reuse rainwater for irrigation, solar water heating, microgeneration, recycling, and home automation."