GEOTHERMAL

Bauer Resources is building a geothermal heating system

Wherever you look, construction space is scarce in city centres. Sooner rather than later, cities will have to react to the situation. Unused buildings can offer a real opportunity here. So how about an abandoned factory? Or an old office complex? Sounds unrealistic, but it is not. The key word is revitalisation.

 Limited space on a jobsite in Germany was a challenge for the drilling team from Bauer Resources while working on a geothermal project

Limited space on a jobsite in Germany was a challenge for the drilling team from Bauer Resources while working on a geothermal project

One classic example of the principle of revitalisation is the "Mergenthaler" project in Eschborn, Germany. Here a vacant office building from the 1980s is to be revitalised by 2024 using resource-efficient...

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