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The future of soccer is green

Building integration: Sports club Werder Bremen is rebuilding its home field in Bremen, Germany, turning it from a multi-purpose venue into a dedicated soccer stadium. Regional energy supplier and sponsor EWE is working with Bremens municipal services to clad the building with photovoltaics, creating Germanys biggest building integrated array while simultaneously showing how solar power modules can provide an architectural solution.

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pv magazine

15 Sep 2010

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Hundreds of tiers of green seat shells are piled up in the parking lot. Inside the stadium, two worm drills 20 meters tall are digging holes in the earth, while cement mixers fill formwork for the new grandstand’s foundations. The pitch gleams a familiar green, but otherwise nothing here is as it used to be. …

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