A new industrial hall built for hot summers
The new hall, called LIKO-Street, follows on from LIKO-Vo, the first living industrial hall, and continues to develop our long-term approach to buildings that are kinder to people, gentler on their surroundings and better prepared for hot summers.
The new hall is not just another production space. It is part of the wider transformation of the LIKO-S site into a green industrial campus, where we work with blue-green infrastructure, daylight, water, vegetation and technologies that help reduce the overheating of buildings and their surroundings.
Greenery where steel sheet would normally be
A distinctive element of LIKO-Street is a 140 m² green façade made up of around 7,800 plants. Together with the green roof, the building brings 380 m² of active green surface to the site. The greenery does not stay only on the ground. It moves onto the façade and the roof, surfaces that would otherwise remain unused on a conventional industrial hall.
One of the main goals of the design was to limit overheating and reduce the need for active cooling. In summer, the green façade shades the surface of the building, supports water evaporation and improves the microclimate around it. At the same time, the biosolar roof reduces the thermal load on the structure, retains water on site and combines vegetation with energy production.
"With LIKO-Street, we are bringing greenery onto the roof and the façade, surfaces that would otherwise remain unused on an industrial building. Their cooling output reaches 91.2 kW, which corresponds to roughly 38 air-conditioning units. It is a tangible example of how a building can deal with heat naturally, not only through technology installed inside," says Jan Musil, CEO of LIKO-S.
A biosolar roof and energy at the right time
The energy concept also includes a 60 kWp photovoltaic plant. Part of the panels are installed vertically on the biosolar roof. As a result, they do not produce their peak around midday like conventional pitched installations, but more in the morning and in the afternoon. This is a better match for the needs of a production plant at times when energy is usually more expensive.
The hall also uses the PLANTaTILE hydroponic green façade system, which represents the next generation of our living façades.
The new hall began with the careful dismantling of the old one
When removing the original hall, we did not choose a standard demolition. The building was gradually dismantled, the materials were sorted and handed over for recycling. As a result, the carbon footprint was reduced by 54.5 tonnes of CO₂e, which corresponds to approximately 270,000 kilometres driven by a standard combustion-engine car.
"The environment in which people work has a direct impact on how they feel at work. An industrial hall does not have to be a dark and overheated space. Daylight, greenery and a more pleasant microclimate matter for production as well. And it is also something our customers notice. When they visit us, they can see that we don't just talk about better buildings, we work in them ourselves," adds Hana Williams Musilová, CEO of LIKO-S Industry.
LIKO-Street is an investment in the production facilities of the LIKO-S Industry division and, at the same time, another living reference of our approach. It shows that green façades, working with water, biosolar roofs and the thoughtful use of technology can help cope with the overheating of buildings, improve the working environment and bring measurable operational benefits.
"The new LIKO-Street industrial hall fits into the line of green buildings along our road and shows the direction in which we believe construction should go. Plants and water create a better environment. They lower the temperature, clean the air and help save on cooling and heating costs. That is architecture that works for people," says Libor Musil, founder of LIKO-S.
