{"id":143348,"date":"2022-07-31T22:54:13","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T03:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/arup-unveils-worlds-first-algae-powered-building"},"modified":"2022-07-31T22:54:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T03:54:13","slug":"arup-unveils-worlds-first-algae-powered-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/arup-unveils-worlds-first-algae-powered-building","title":{"rendered":"Arup unveils world\u2019s first algae-powered building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/arup-unveils-worlds-first-algae-powered-building.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2013 \ud83d\ude03<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/news\/\">News:<\/a><\/strong> the world\u2019s first building to be powered entirely by algae is being piloted in Hamburg, Germany, by engineering firm Arup.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cbio-adaptive facade\u201d, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arup<\/a> says is the first of its kind, uses live microalgae growing in glass louvres to generate renewable energy and provide shade at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Installed in the BIQ building as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iba-hamburg.de\/en\/iba-in-english.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Building Exhibition<\/a>, the algae are continuously supplied with liquid nutrients and carbon dioxide via a water circuit running through the facade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2013 \ud83d\ude03 News: the world\u2019s first building to be powered entirely by algae is being piloted in Hamburg, Germany, by engineering firm Arup. The \u201cbio-adaptive facade\u201d, which Arup says is the first of its kind, uses live microalgae growing in glass louvres to generate renewable energy and provide shade at the same time. Installed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,38,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-engineering","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}