Six pee tanks were install on the campus of PTS Mechelen this summertime , share the Province of Antwerp . The installation of the tanks eat up a new building labor that pore on sustainability . The six tanks , each with a diam of three meter and a distance of 15 meter , can roll up 630 m³ of rainwater and together weigh 22.5 tonnes .
With all kind of sustainable initiatives , PTS Mechelen demonstrates that they are not only investing in modern substructure and in high spirits - tech teaching tools , but that they are also actively contributing to ecologic awareness and the future of their student .
locate in the affectionateness of the vegetable sphere around Mechelen , PTS Mechelen is powerfully attached to vegetable growing , both inside and outside the shoal grounds . Kathleen Massant , Technical Director , explain : " Our pupils grow vegetables that abide by with GlobalGap certification . This provides them with a realistic and practical breeding that fix them for a career in the agricultural sphere . Our schooling supplies various veggie to the BelOrta auction and sell some in the schooltime shop . What is not sell is donate to Foodsavers , a local food money box . The emphasis is on disk shape and minimizing waste . To give an exercise , coir mats from the greenhouses are reused for landscaping . "
Efficient water managementPTS Mechelen ’s new rain storage installation consists of six sword tubes , each 15 meters long and three meters in diameter . The tubing are link together . Tanks pick up rain from all surrounding roofs ( about 6,000 m² of roof surface area , include the two adjacent indoor garden ) . Three existing rainwater cisterns with a full capacity of 329 m³ will be connect to the new 630 m³ buffer tank car , so that all the cisterns together part as one large storage deftness . In the future , more distant roof may also be connected to the land site .
The gathered rainwater , with a capacity of 959 m³ , will be used in greenhouses , and they will be deploy to body of water plants , flush toilet , and outside taps . This will start the schooling to get across a ironical period of two months without using city water . This intervention will supplement the current groundwater extraction on the situation , and the school will no longer need to use water faucet H2O or groundwater . Sustainable buildingThe new water tanks are part of the recently opened sustainable new building on campus , the ' Groentjesgebouw ' . This newfangled building , which was open originally this year , emphasizes PTS Mechelen ’s focus on environmental friendliness and sustainability . The total cost of the young construction was EUR 5.6 million .
The army tank were bring to the campus by special transport .
Source : Province of Antwerp(in Dutch )
