14 DAY TRIAL // The UK's most eco-friendly bus depot is expected to become fully operational in November 2014. Work on this project began only a few days ago, and the people in charge of building the facility expect that, by October 2014, construction activities will have been completed.
According to Inhabitat, the depot is being built in Glasgow, Scotland. When finished, it will be able to house about 450 buses at a time, and will also accommodate for some 1,200 employees.
The bus depot will be fitted with solar panels, whose combined energy generating capacity will be one of 175,000 – 185,000 kilowatts per hour annually.
Specialists say that this output would be enough to meet the power demand of 40 average households throughout an entire year.
Apart from relying heavily on solar power, the bus depot will have systems that will allow it to collect rainwater and then use it to make the vehicles spick-and-span. Thanks to this system, roughly 2.2 million liters of water are expected to be saved annually.
The bus depot will also use low-energy lighting, so I suppose it will really be one of the greenest facilities of its kind out there.