Siemens brings high tech to new heights: Alpine huts with environmentally compatible water and power supplies

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Siemens is taking high-tech environmental protection to new heights – literally. Serving as a general contractor, Siemens Building Technologies has brought the latest in environmentally compatible technology to the German Alpine Association’s Ingolstaedter Haus, a mountain refuge situated at a height of 2,119 me-ters (6,952 feet) above sea level on the Steinernes Meer plateau of Austria’s Berchtesgadener Alps. Siemens has equipped the hut, built in 1928-29 by the Ingolstadt chapter of the German Alpine Association, with new power and water supply systems and a new biological waste water purification system. Waste water quality has been improved to meet legal requirements, and the water supply has also been upgraded. The hut’s new district heating station is fired by vegetable oil. Solar cells boost the power supply.


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