Santa Adela's new Santa Adela will feature recycled materials

Santa Adela's new promotion will be constructed with recycled materials. Administrations are already working on it. Angel Luis Benito (municipal architect) presented the idea this Thursday. It is part of the circular economy project in urban affairs that the Granada City Council hopes to develop over the next eight years. Although the initiative was developed over three years, it will be approved at Plaza del Carmen's local government meeting.

Urbact-Urge Granada is a European exchange and learning program that encourages sustainable urban development. Through a collaboration model, it trains participants to find solutions for current problems such as climate change, pollution, and resource scarcity.

The goal of the Nasrid capital is to create a circular economy system that focuses on urban areas. It has been involved in the exchange of information with other cities about issues such as best practices. This is to ensure that the waste from constructions can be managed better and that the materials are converted into products and materials premiums that return to the cycle.

Yesterday, the municipal architect explained that aggregates are used again to make concrete, and that carpentry is reinstalled. Or that materials are now in plants that can be used for insulation. He explained that the idea was to encourage zero waste.

The technicians discovered several flaws in the area of action at Granada over the course of their previous work. These included a lack of discussion on the final destination for demolition materials, a lack of a secondary market and a lack of good local practices in both the private and public sectors. This was rectified by a campaign that reached professionals, schools, promoters, and companies to raise awareness about specific actions.

This debate resulted in the approval of the action plan, which includes 12 initiatives. Santa Adela is one of them. Angel Luis Benito stated that the Granada City Council plans to use the Zaidinera promotion as an opportunity to demonstrate good practices. They will reuse the demolition materials from the blocks being built in the area. Parallel to this, rates like the ICIO and the IBI will be reduced in works that follow this model and are focused on energy efficiency.

Other proposals include the institutionalization of the discussion groups with local agents who have contributed ideas, dissemination of best practices such as what was done recently by the Association of Quantity Surveyors, or the creation of an archive of companies that are outstanding in this area.

Jacobo Calvo, spokesperson for the government team, said that the initiative is interested in "improving the environment or sustainability". He also defended the work done by the municipal government, which, he stated, "is both micropolitics as well as in important issues always to the benefit of the people in Granada>>."