late , the first of four warehouse building to be erected on the Hedeland patch next to the DSV Panalpina headquarters in Denmark was completed with environmentally favorable NOXOUT roofing .
A special mineral - based coating helps to burst down NOx corpuscle give off from the railcar and trucks that overhaul through the area .
The four warehouse building together with deal a ground area of 150,000 m2 will all have the exceptional NOXOUT roofing .
The first building was lately finished with a 40,000 m2 NOXOUT cap , equal to of break down 421,120 grams of NOx particles a year . This corresponds to the NOx emissions from a Euro average 6 hand truck , carrying 8 - 13 t , driving round the existence 18 times .
This means that the newfangled warehouse building is NOx neutral – provided all NOx particles from passing dealings lands on the 40,000 m2 roof .
The NOx molecule are break down due to a special finishing of titan dioxide that play as a accelerator when the particle land on the roof . Aided by sunlight , the program transforms the NOx particles to nitrate , which is afterward wash off the cap when it rain and then repurposed as plant food for the surrounding ground and plants .
Once the four buildings are all fitted with the NOXOUT roofing , a totality of 150,000 m2 NOXOUT cap will be breaking down 1,579,200 gm of Night particles every twelvemonth . This jibe to the NOx emissions from the abovementioned truck , only now it can make the trip-up around the mankind 70 times .
Cleaner line for the next 50 yearsWith this fresh type of roofing , the 150,000 m2 edifice coordination compound , which will be DSV ’s largest logistics campus in the Nordics , will help to break down NOx particle for decades to come .
“ The NOXOUT roofing is equal to of break down NOx particles over a period of 50 years – which is the approximate lifetime duet of the roof . Because the mineral is contained within the slate , the titan dioxide coat is not used up or washed aside over meter . The only thing to reduce the roofing ’s power to break down NOx particles is lack of sunlight , leaf cover or something else that prevents the particles from falling onto the mineral covering of the roof ” .
harmonise to Susanne Højholt , when the roof postulate to be interchange – after decades of servicing – it should be cast out of in the same way as other type of asphalt roofing . According to the Danish Environmental Protection Agency , titan dioxide is not dangerous . The mineral is used for many different things , e.g. to raise blanched color , UV filter in sun screen and colouring in cosmetics , boiled sweets and chewing gum .
Another positive is that the ceiling ’s white surface distract the rays of the sunlight and reduces heating plant – in line to standard black roofs . So , the building ’s total energy consumption is reduced during the sunny and red-hot time of year .
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