This 270-Year-Old Building Has a High-Tech Secret

THE FIGHT against climate change is one of the biggest challenges of our time, and cities everywhere are coming under pressure to act fast.

Glasgow is on a mission to become ‘climate resilient’ in under a decade and seeing how technology can help to bring its buildings up to future standards.

One experiment is already underway – and in a part of the city where you’d least expect.

A former powerhouse of shipbuilding and trade, Glasgow was nicknamed Second City of The British Empire for much of the 19th century, raising its reputation on the world stage.

More recently though, it found itself at the centre of global attention once again – but for a very different reason.

In 2021 it hosted COP26, where hundreds of world leaders and activists came together to tackle climate change.

But Glasgow’s commitment to the environment didn’t end there; it’s also pledged to become net-zero carbon by 2030, and one of Europe’s most sustainable cities.

Net-zero is where greenhouse gas emissions have been dramatically reduced, and any remaining emissions are offset.

“We believe that there's many solutions to get us to net zero; there's no silver bullet,” Alex MacLean, head of consultancy services at Glasgow City Council, said.

“The accounting of carbon when it comes to the value of existing structures is something that we're developing and trying to understand better so that we make that part of our process – always use our existing buildings, especially old listed and important heritage buildings, first before we build something new.”

The city has already shown what it can do. The Athletes Village for the 2014 Commonwealth Games was turned into an energy-efficient housing development with a low-carbon heating system – all on former industrial land.

And now it’s set to embark on another climate-friendly transition, but this time in one of the city’s most beautiful and historic spots – Pollok Country Park, the largest green space in the city with the help of Digital Twins.

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