• These international awards recognize people, projects, and organizations that are pioneers in sustainable building design, development, and management

Infecar, the Gran Canaria Trade Fair, has had its commitment to sustainability recognized internationally. This is evidenced by the publication of the list of finalists for the 2024 Breeam Awards, in which Infecar is a contender for the popular choice category, to be announced on July 10 in London.

With this nomination, Infecar positions itself as a leading sustainable space that also contributes to improving the upper part of the city’s social, environmental, urban planning, and economic environment.

This Master Plan is currently in very advanced stages, with the City Council of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria giving the green light to the new Special Zoning Plan, which will provide viability for future urban planning.

The Infecar Master Plan is based on three main pillars: configuring a multifunctional venue, integrating existing uses with the capacity to host various types of events, committing to open space and enhancing the venue’s unique value, and becoming the first sustainable trade fair venue.

Thus, the venue will not only address environmental or energy issues, but must also present its energy and water strategy, undergo noise pollution, biodepuration studies, etc. In short, a new generation and multifunctional trade fair venue will be the flagship of the eco-island, with compact, efficient, flexible and sustainable facilities that will allow it to maintain the exhibition area for its activities and strengthen it.

In this sense, the sustainability strategy includes a series of innovations, such as a zero-carbon plan, a positive net biodiversity action, bioclimatic design solutions, a natural waste treatment plant, and a Life Cycle calculation that meets the decarbonization mandate 2050. From that moment on, the entire complex will function like a tree, exhaling oxygen and sequestering CO2, contributing to the planet’s cooling.

Additionally, the green ring that will surround the entire future venue is part of an environmental regeneration strategy that provides ecosystem services to the venue and the neighbourhood, such as shaded areas and heat mitigation, noise insulation, natural drainage in case of torrential rains; and a substantial increase in biodiversity.

The public voting, open to everyone, can be done through this link until next Wednesday, June 5.

Six Spanish Projects Nominated

On this occasion, six Spanish projects have been shortlisted within all the categories covered by the Breeam Awards, aspiring to become the most sustainable Breeam-certified building of the year.

These include AMRO Getafe, Diagonal Mar Shopping Center, Zenia Boulevard Shopping Center, Martinez Villergas 29, the Hotel Alfonso XIII, and Infecar, the Gran Canaria Trade Fair.

The Breeam Awards are the most demanding sustainability awards in construction, as, apart from the score achieved, they take into account factors such as the uniqueness of the project, its degree of innovation or the social relevance it offers to its environment. Furthermore, each finalist project has been selected from thousands of certified candidates during the last year in more than 90 countries; therefore, the Spanish projects that have reached the final will compete with sustainable assets from the United States, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Poland, Portugal, Belgium, China or Brazil.