Energy Park Building 03 – Certified under Platinum LEED for Core & Shell v2.0

The  Energy  Park  of  Vimercate,  just  outside  Milan,  stands  as  the  true  answer  to  all  the  companies  operating   in  Hi-­Tech,  telecommunications  and  IT,  and  which  are  planning  to  rationalize  their  rents  and  energy  bills   while  improving  the  environmental  and  working  conditions  of  their  employees.   The  Building  03  of  the  Energy  Park  is  the  first  Italian  building  ever  to  be  issued  the  LEED  Platinum  certif-­ icate.     There  are  only  six  more  Platinum-­certified  buildings  in  Europe,  more  precisely  in  Sweden,  Finland,  Lux-­ embourg  and  Germany.     The  Building  is  part  of  the  Technology  Park  of  Vimercate  and  it  was  built  by  SEGRO,  an  investment  and   development  firm,  the  European  leader  in  the  supply  of  flexible  spaces  and  business  solutions.  It  is  a  pro-­ ject   for   the   development   of   an   area   that   was   already   known   for   its   industrial/manufacturing   vocation,   in   order  to  achieve  a  modern,  sustainable  transformation  that  is  mandatory  if  this  area  is  to  survive  in  the  fu-­ ture.   The  building  won  the  LEED  Platinum  certificate  thanks  to  the  optimum  solutions  regarding  energy  con-­ sumption,  lighting,  use  of  water  and  of  other  materials,  and  thanks  to  a  wide  range  of  strategies  aimed  at   enhancing  the  sustainability  of  this  structure,  which  is  the  subject  of  this  paper.