Ogre Central Library opened

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The Ogre Central Library was opened on June 2, bringing a new standard in the construction of energy-efficient wooden structures. The library will serve as a multifunctional cultural education centre with a library and a general registry office. The Ogre Central Library building was built with glued wood construction technology, which ranks it as one of the first public buildings in Latvia built with such a method.

The symbolic opening ribbon was cut by Egils Helmanis, Chairman of Ogre District Council, Kaspars Gerhards, Minister of Agriculture, Nauris Puntulis, Minister of Culture, Jānis Vitenbergs, Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Economics, and Guntis Āboltiņš-Āboliņš, Chairman of the Board of JSC RERE Grupa.

A two-storey building is a so-called passive building or a building with zero energy consumption. In both the facade and the interior of the building, open wooden structures are visible to visitors in many places - wood is the main material used in this building. The load-bearing structures of buildings are made of glued solid wood panels, which are glued crosswise and longitudinally, thus obtaining the high structural strength and stability required for load-bearing structures.

The new building is equipped with intelligently controlled lighting using up to 80 percent natural light. Using the available resources and proving energy efficiency, a recuperation ventilation system will be operated, which will remove the air while retaining its heat. A unique heating system with a sewage heat exchanger has been built in the building, while a green plant wall has been created in the atrium which will be irrigated by using the collected rainwater. Above the parking lot, on steel structures, solar panels are installed for local electricity generation. The territory of the library is fully landscaped, with high-quality paving and a terrace.

The building project was developed on a digital building model (BIM) platform, which provided an opportunity to monitor the quality, compliance and development of the project implementation, including meeting deadlines.

This is one of the first public buildings in Latvia built of CLT and GLT wooden structures.