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Grimaldi Forum. ‘‘Panels have likewise been
installed on apartment blocks, water gardens The Renzo, the most complicated building to construct
and the lifts running from Place Gabriella to the It doesn’t happen every day. While we’re more used to hearing about delays in building
Port. It is now the largest photovoltaic energy projects, Mareterra will be delivered seven months ahead of schedule, despite the health
production plant in Monaco. crisis linked to the Covid 19 pandemic. The main reason for this early completion is a
We cover 80% of street lighting with green reorganisation of the schedule. We reorganised everything to make the sequence of
electricity from the neighbourhood, and what work more appropriate. Not to mention the fact that we had the luck to work with 300
is produced by the buildings is fed back into companies (representing nearly 4,000 people), all of whom were highly committed
the grid,’’ explains the developer, who says he and motivated,’ enthuses Guy-Thomas Levy-Soussan. The Renzo was undoubtedly the
considered all possible options for the land longest and most complicated building to construct, as its structure is supported by
extension, including wave energy and the pylons. This building resembling a cruise ship is named after its designer and hails a
installation of electric batteries. ‘‘We studied technical feat. ‘The height of the columns was calculated to let us look out to sea from
a number of solutions and chose to use tried the crest, giving the impression of a “building that floats”, to use Renzo-Piano’s words.
and tested technologies...’’ The Renzo is aiming for a rating of ‘Excellent’ on the BREEAM Quality Mark.

*In an interview with Observateur de Monaco during celebrations
to mark Rainier III’s 100th anniversary.

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