Poch, together with the its partner, the New Zealand consultant Beca, contributes to the sustainability and energy efficiency of this commercial mega-project.
In order to assure the sustainability of its clients, Poch has become a company expert in the development of environmental solutions, management consultancy and certifications, and energy efficiency. Its clients’ projects, considered as their own, require the balance of different factors that influence the result of these ones, like the environmental responsibility, the efficient use of resources, the well-being and comfort they generate, and the community sensitivity facing their development.
Poch, having a long list of finished and developing projects for its client Cencosud, has established an alliance with the international consultant Beca, offering coordination and management services to obtain the denomination for the Costanera Center towers as constructions, to be granted by the U.S. Green Building Council based on LEED® qualification system. The Beca - Poch consortium has committed to supervise the objectives required by the certifying organism, the certification associated management, and the generation of technical documentation associated to the process.
The Costanera Center complex will have an approximated surface of 600 thousand square meters, which will include a four level mall with more than the 200 commercial shops, supermarkets, two hotels, 14 cinema rooms and five underground levels for parking. The project also contemplates the construction of four big towers, one of which will reach the height of 300 meters, becoming the tallest building in the southern hemisphere. The investment involved in the project is close to US$ 400 M, and its inauguration is planned for the second semester of 2009.
The certification as Green Building includes regulatory aspects, ground use and community, energy efficiency, characteristics of the construction process, water resources, use of materials, environment quality of the inside spaces, among others. Costanera Center wants the certification of its four towers, in order to reach the Gold degree of the LEED® score scale.