Colombia. In September, the Colombian Chamber of Infrastructure inaugurated its new headquarters in Ciudad Salitre in Bogotá. The building, in which US$50 million was invested, has a structure that guarantees a greater use of energy that will be reflected in the economic savings and the reduction of more than 700 tons of greenhouse gases per year.The 46-meter-high building, with 10 floors and 3 basements, considers cooling and electricity generation as a single integral system, using 8 gas microturbines of 200 KV each, optimizing energy consumption by 40%, savings with which it is expected to recover the investment in five years.
The project began at the end of 2005 after a proposal from the president of the guild, Juan Martín Caicedo Ferrer and is part of the towers of the Sarmiento Angulo Business City, the largest non-residential real estate project built in the Colombian capital.
