Leaders of the 'Towards a Sustainable Expo' programme
Here the list of the Leaders, and the Special Mentions, for the 4 categories of the “Towards a Sustainable Expo” Programme:
Category 1 – Design and Materials
LEADERS AMONG COUNTRIES
Austria
The Exhibition area is covered by 48% of a small forest providing a temperature of about 5° less than outside, avoiding air conditioning. At the end of the Event the Pavilion will be dismantled and given back to the builder. The trees will be donated to a mountain museum.
Brazil
Brazil adopted several sustainable solutions (green roof, energy saving, reduction of the area that requires the air-conditioning system) and chose to relocate the external structure in a playground in Milan.
Monaco
The pavilion has been designed with a careful choice of materials: the containers on their last journey saved from disposal, and certified conifer wood guaranteed throughout the supply chain.
SPECIAL MENTION
Azerbaijan
The Pavilion is characterized by a large sphere, made of curved glass and steel divided into two floors. Its walls are equipped with a shading system reducing direct solar radiation and ensuring controlled natural light way in.
Bahrein
The Pavilion has been designed as a continuous outdoor landscape of ten distinctive fruit gardens, native to Bahrain. This choice allows a significant advantage in terms of energy savings avoiding the need of air conditioning systems.
Belgium
The pavilion foresees a large use of renewable energy through traditional and innovative photovoltaic panels and an original demonstrative windmill blade, together with the exploitation of a heat pump fed by the water of the canal for heating and cooling and a tank for water recovery with a phytodepuration system.
Israel
Israel’s Pavilion distinguished itself by the originality of its vertical agricultural wall. that shows the various types of cultivations typical of the country
Intesa San Paolo
Intesa San Paolo is in charge for the re-use the Pavilion The Waterstone in the area of Milan.
LEADERS AMONGS EXPO PARTNERS
Coca-Cola
The Pavilion was designed with the aim of being entirely reused at the end of the Event as a basketball field in Milan. The structure is completely covered and there is no air cooling systems. This is made possible by the technology used in the construction of the four facades which maximize the energetic efficiency.
New Holland
CNH’s Pavilion placed sustainability at the centre of its construction logistics, especially thanks to its big green roof that minimizes the heat island effect and the heat transfer in the internal parts and also for the use of a tank collecting rainwater that is reused for the green roof.
Save the Children
The Pavilion will be reused after the end of the Event in Somaliland as an expansion of an already existing hospital realized by an NGO. The building does not need a cooling/heating system thanks to an open concept that allows natural ventilation.
Category 2 – Food and Beverage
LEADERS AMONG COUNTRIES
Chile
The 130 products on sale in the Pavilion were selected preferring small to medium Chilean producers from all over the country and Chilean cooperatives. Its food proposal distinguished for the organic original products (such as wines and maqui).
France
The offer of food is peculiar for its rich selection of DOP and IGP products especially for what regards cheese and wines.
LEADERS AMONG EXPO PARTNERS
CIR – Food
CIR is leader for the careful selection of DOP and IGP products and, most of all, for the elaboration of a complete communication system on the nutritional values of their offered plates.
Coop
Coop distinguished for the careful selection of organic and DOP/IGP products and for the quantity of information provided to consumers.
Lavazza
Lavazza developed its participation in Expo by paying close attention to selecting suppliers based on social and environmental aspects, as regards food, beverages and merchandise, and also with reference to all the packaging used.
Category 3 – Green Procurement
LEADERS AMONG COUNTRIES
Chile
Chile paid careful attention in the selection of the merchandise they sell. Most of the products have been manufactured by Chilean artisans and poor women with natural raw materials locally acquired.
LEADERS AMONG EXPO PARTNERS
Carlsberg
The company presented innovative DraughtMaster™ method for serving draft beer based on the use of recyclable PET kegs instead of traditional ones in steel ensuring a remarkable reduction in environmental impact. Furthermore, the small square has been set with furniture that have been carefully selected for the materials used.
Coca-Cola
The merchandise offered at the store was inspired by environmental and social sustainability criteria: objects realized mainly with materials recovered from Coca-Cola cans and bottles and transformed into design objects by disadvantages communities of women from developing countries.
Lavazza
Lavazza paid careful attention to all the sustainable criteria mentioned in relation to the GP for the comprehensive management of the small square.
SPECIAL MENTION
Illycaffè
Over the semester, illycaffè organised many events focusing on the coffee supply chain and on how the company works to make it as much sustainable as possible, always paying very close attention to minimizing the environmental impacts produced by these events (for example, by only using digital supports for its communication strategies).
Coop
COOP exhibited innovative examples of alternative agriculture aimed at increasing cultivable surfaces and reducing water consumption and paid special attention to packaging minimization.
Category 4 – Other initiatives
LEADERS AMONG COUNTRIES
Chile
Chile offset the CO2 emissions caused by the construction of the Pavilion and for the organization of several events on sustainability issues during the semester.
Belgium
Belgium proposes an articulated model of food production for the future, showing the potentiality of hydroponyc and aquaponyc cultures and other innovative methods of food production.
Lithuania
Lithuania organised several presentations of ecological sustainable Lithuanian food products with tastings throughout the entire Expo Milano 2015 period.
LEADERS AMONG EXPO PARTNERS
Coop
COOP offset the CO2 emissions caused by the construction of the Pavilion and calculated the Carbon Footprint of 900 of the 1.400 products sold in the Supermarket.
The Triulza Foundation
Triulza activities characterised for the remarkable efforts in engaging civil society organisations and involving a lot of different Stakeholders during the whole duration of the Exposition, with the elaboration of important documents for the future (Charter of Value, Terra Viva Manifesto etc.).
Waa-Amia Conaf
Conaf offset CO2 emissions related to the construction of the Pavilion and to the organisation of the World Congress of Agronomists in the Exposition Site.
SPECIAL MENTION
China Vanke Group
China Vanke Pavilion stands out with an external façade that recalls the image of a dragon: it is made up of 4,000 ceramic tiling of metallic red, the so called “dragon scales”. A the end of the Event, the roof ceramic tiling will be sold through bidding and with the proceeds will be invested on a renovation project for an ancient temple in China.
Monaco
The interesting main point is the comprehensive project of re-usage of the Pavilion structure in Burkina Fasu that willo be used for Red Cross operators training courses inside a larger facility.
