Sustainable urban planning: Site visit to Hammarby Sjöstad - an eco-friendly part of town Wednesday 19th October 14.30 - 18.00 Please note - there are no more places available for a Site Visit

Participants will travel by boats, accompanied by our VIP tour guide - Olle Zetterberg, President of Stockholm Business Region Hammarby Sjöstad is an exciting new district in Stockholm where the City has imposed tough environmental requirements on buildings, technical installations and the traffic environment, from day one. Delegates will be taken on a tour of the development, visiting brand new commercial developments, housing, boulevards, parks and waterways.

It has only taken a few years for Hammarby Sjöstad to become one of the world’s highest profile examples of Sustainable City Development, mentioned in specialist publications worldwide. The area is visited by over 10,000 decision makers and specialists in the field every year, making it one of Stockholm’s most important destinations
Planning work was integrated with environmental goals from the very start of the planning process. This approach has been followed ever since by consultations between the City of Stockholm’s administrative departments and the companies responsible for waste management, energy, water & sewage, aimed at developing the solutions needed to enable the environmental goals to be met.
Stockholm Water Company, Fortum and the Stockholm Waste Management Administration have jointly developed a common eco-cycle model designed to ensure organic recycling throughout Hammarby Sjöstad – known as "The Hammarby Model". This model is the thread that binds together the entire environmental programme and demonstrates how the various technical supply systems are integrated.

The water has inspired the name of the entire project – the town around the lake Hammarby Sjö. The first drawings of what would become Hammarby Sjöstad were pencilled in back in 1990. The idea was to showcase a unique opportunity – expanding the inner city with a focus on the water, while converting an old industrial and harbour area into a modern neighbourhood. Once fully built, Hammarby Sjöstad will have 10,000 residential units for just over 20,000 people and a total of about 30,000 people will live and work in the area. Today almost 10,000 people live in the area, including 7,000 on the south side. Hammarby Sjöstad should be fully built by 2015.

Impetus was gained for development and infrastructure in the area when plans for Stockholm's bid for the 2004 Olympic Games were being prepared. The core area of Hammarby Sjöstad was envisaged as an Olympic Village with a strong emphasis on ecology and environmental sustainability, which was promoted as one of Stockholm's unique selling points as an Olympic city. Although the bid was unsuccessful, development was already underway and the momentum for change had been established. Hammarby Sjöstad is built on former industrial brownfield land.