Splendors and mieseries of renovation, part 4 - 2011
Today I want to come back to one of my favorite topics - the renovation of older buildings and improvement of their energy efficiency characteristics. In few reports I want to look at the some results of 2011. Of course the results aren't trivial.
About one year ago I posted several reports about ongoing renovations of older inefficient buildings here and the importance of the reduction of energy consumption in the country with cold climate. This importance was only increased this year as the the prices of energy resources only went up.
Among the good news is the fact that reconstructions of main thermal energy supply lines lead us to the league of the countries with the best results in the world: estimates show that this year in the main supply lines will be lost about 12% of energy in Lithuania. Such result is characteristic only to the countries with top efficiency in the world such as Scandinavian countries and is significantly better result than energy losses in such countries as UK or US ... (9-12 percent of energy is lost only in such energy conscious countries as Scandinavian countries or Germany). It is now even difficult to imagine that 20 years ago energy losses in main supply lines in Lithuania was about 32-35 percent ...
Other results aren't so good. First I have in mind the renovation of older buildings.
One group of buildings that are renovated quite successfully are public schools. If such speed will be maintained in a 3-4 years probably all schools here will be renovated (my rough estimate is that now about 1/3 of public schools in Kaunas are renovated). Another and completely different issue is the quality of renovation: in most cases cheapest case of renovation is implemented. Few examples I am ready to present.
"Varpo" gymnasium (built in 1988) in 2010:
And the same school in 2011:
In principle not the worst case since the first floor was renovated from better materials but for the upper floors cheapest materials were used.
Another example of cheap renovation - J. Grušo school (built in 1989):
It has still not renovated neighbor built under exactly the same project and serves as the illustration how this school looked before:
Another example of school renovation. These photos I posted in July:
Now the same place looks like this:
Renovation of V. Kuprevičiaus school represents better case. How this school (built in 1976) looked in the autumn of 2010:
In the early autumn of 2011 when the renovation was approaching the end it looked like this:
Agricultural school in the suburb after renovation - how to say ...:
I am happy that this year the process of renovation of old industrial buildings accelerated. And the issue is not that their renovation is of high quality but in many cases it is impossible to do something worse ...
In July I posted this photo of industrial building:
In October it looked like this - anyway better than before:
Very complicated are the results of renovation of healthcare institutions. The ambulance control center last year:
In the November 2011 it changed it's look. I only don't know if the new look is better ...
The nearby "Dainava" policlinic is renovated using the same principles but due to initial solution it's look is better.
Policlinic in 2010:
In 2011 it looks like this:
Even several rather strange decorations were implemented :)
To be continued ...
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About one year ago I posted several reports about ongoing renovations of older inefficient buildings here and the importance of the reduction of energy consumption in the country with cold climate. This importance was only increased this year as the the prices of energy resources only went up.
Among the good news is the fact that reconstructions of main thermal energy supply lines lead us to the league of the countries with the best results in the world: estimates show that this year in the main supply lines will be lost about 12% of energy in Lithuania. Such result is characteristic only to the countries with top efficiency in the world such as Scandinavian countries and is significantly better result than energy losses in such countries as UK or US ... (9-12 percent of energy is lost only in such energy conscious countries as Scandinavian countries or Germany). It is now even difficult to imagine that 20 years ago energy losses in main supply lines in Lithuania was about 32-35 percent ...
Other results aren't so good. First I have in mind the renovation of older buildings.
One group of buildings that are renovated quite successfully are public schools. If such speed will be maintained in a 3-4 years probably all schools here will be renovated (my rough estimate is that now about 1/3 of public schools in Kaunas are renovated). Another and completely different issue is the quality of renovation: in most cases cheapest case of renovation is implemented. Few examples I am ready to present.
"Varpo" gymnasium (built in 1988) in 2010:
And the same school in 2011:
In principle not the worst case since the first floor was renovated from better materials but for the upper floors cheapest materials were used.
Another example of cheap renovation - J. Grušo school (built in 1989):
It has still not renovated neighbor built under exactly the same project and serves as the illustration how this school looked before:
Another example of school renovation. These photos I posted in July:
Now the same place looks like this:
Renovation of V. Kuprevičiaus school represents better case. How this school (built in 1976) looked in the autumn of 2010:
In the early autumn of 2011 when the renovation was approaching the end it looked like this:
Agricultural school in the suburb after renovation - how to say ...:
I am happy that this year the process of renovation of old industrial buildings accelerated. And the issue is not that their renovation is of high quality but in many cases it is impossible to do something worse ...
In July I posted this photo of industrial building:
In October it looked like this - anyway better than before:
Very complicated are the results of renovation of healthcare institutions. The ambulance control center last year:
In the November 2011 it changed it's look. I only don't know if the new look is better ...
The nearby "Dainava" policlinic is renovated using the same principles but due to initial solution it's look is better.
Policlinic in 2010:
In 2011 it looks like this:
Even several rather strange decorations were implemented :)
To be continued ...
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