Certificate hand-over for "Autonomous alpine shelter, Monte Rosa hut, Switzerland"
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Andrea Deplazes and Marcel Baumgartner (small image, from left) receiving the Global Holcim Awards 2009 finalist certificate from Kaspar Wenger, managing director of Holcim Switzerland.
The certificate was handed over in the context of the inauguration of the Monte Rosa Hut on September 25.
After
6 years of planning at the ETH Zurich the "mountain hut of the future"
is completed and was opened to the public in March 2010. The hut was
built in 2883 meters above sea level and relies on its own energy
production, water collection as well as system to treat solid waste and
waste water.
 finalist certificate (PDF, 48 KB)
finalist projects
winners of the Global Holcim Awards 2009 | | |