INTERSTATE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM: ATHENS SOLAR VILLAGE

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Client: 
ATHENS SOLAR VILLAGE S.A.
Location: 
Athens
Total value: 
GRD 3 billion and GMR 32 billion in current values at construction time including VAT
Time: 
1984 - 1987
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Project Description: 

The Athens Solar Village is a composite Development Program prepared at the initiative of an interstate agreement between Greece and Germany’s Ministries of Energy. The Program is a scientific experiment of sociological, town - planning, energy, technology, and economic nature. It concerns the creation of a model Organised Housing Settlement comprising of 435 apartments in 25 buildings (blocks of flats, social services and shopping centre).

Briefly, the specific Program includes the following actions and interventions:

  • A multi-faceted and comprehensive Sociological Study on the rationalised development of a settlement to house about 1,500 residents, placing emphasis on securing the required conditions for a normal social life within the settlement and with the residents’ acceptance of the new energy systems of a pilot technological nature.
  • A comprehensive proposal for Town-Planning relating to the extension of the town-planning study approved by the Pefki Municipality to include the project’s area of 100.000 m2.
  • A multi-faceted and comprehensive Energy Study to implement new, advanced energy saving systems by utilising Mild Forms of Energy, especially solar energy.
  • A comprehensive Economic Study on the cost of the installations and the Program’ s activities.
  • A full Building Study covering the total number of the project’s buildings.
  • A comprehensive Transportation Study to examine the settlement’s connection to the region’s existing transportation network.
  • A comprehensive Roadway Study, to focus also on infrastructure projects and redevelopment of the surrounding area.
  • A comprehensive Study for the Establishment of a Databank containing the entirety of the Program’ s technical, economic, and sociological data.
  • Construction of Settlement’s Buildings and other Infrastructure Installations, as well as installation of electric, mechanical and technological equipment.
Scope of Services: 

Our Organisation provided the following services:

  • Project Management
  • Scheduling and Cost Control
  • Supervision of Construction.

Our Organisation’s ratio of participation in the above services was 100% in Project Management, and in Scheduling and Cost Control Services, and 50% in Supervision of construction.