Site Visits

ECOWEEK includes site visits as an integral part of the ECOWEEK International Conference and Workshops exprience and a tangible way to see solutions as they are implemented 'in the real world'.. Read...

Site Visit

IPCRI, Tantur, Jerusalem A site visit to IPCRI in Tantur, Jerusalem is scheduled for October 21, 2010. All workshop participants will be invited to meet at IPCRI at Tantur, visit the site, meet the client and learn more about the program and the proposed building. For Palestinian participants: IPCRI will kindly issue permits for one day – for October 21, 2010 – to enter Jerusalem from the Bethlehem Maabar. Must notify the organizers at least one month in advance. For Israeli participants: you must notify the organizers of your participation to the site visit at least two weeks in advance.

ECOWEEK GUIDED SITE VISITS

ECOWEEK 2005 & 2006 & 2007 included guided site visits to passive solar and ecological houses with architects Alexandros Tombazis and Kostas Tsipiras in Aegina island.

ECOWEEK 2008 included a special site visit to the New Acropolis Museum in Athens, immediately after its completion, and one year before it was officially opened to the public. The site visit was guided by architect Michael Photiadis, who, together with architect Bernard Tchumi, designed the new museum.

ECOWEEK 2009 included a number of special guided tours to the former international airport of Athens at Hellinikon guided by Landscape Architect Thomas Doxiadis; to the new recycling factory by Envitec SA at A. Liosia; a guided tour to the passive-solar offices of Meletitiki with award-winning architect Alexandros Tombazis; a guided tour and lecture about the first energy autonomous building in Greece courtesy of Sol Energy Hellas; a tour at a windfarm in Attica guided by Vestas SA - manufacturer of the wind turbines; a guided visit to the methane biogas factoray at A. Liosia courtesy of BEAL SA; and a visit to one of the first green roofs of Athens, on top of the OSE building in the center of Athens, courtesy of Landco SA.

ECOWEEK 2010 in the Middle East included a site visit and presenation on the new Palestinian city Rawabi in the process of construction outside Ramallah.