The first phase of a Snaga complex that is to give better working conditions to staff members, especially workers dealing with waste disposal, opened at the end of November.

Unpaved parking areas for municipal vehicles and spatially inadequate mechanical and repair workshops and changing rooms ceased to meet the Snaga public company’s safety and spatial requirements some time ago. To provide suitable working and business conditions, Snaga has built new changing room/sanitary and repair facilities and a car park at Cesta dveh cesarjev 111. The new facilities cover 10,500 square metres at a cost of €7.2 million.

Green roofs on buildings in the new complex will contribute to reducing temperature surges and enable cost-effective heating and cooling, while the roof surfaces serve as rainwater catchment areas collected through vertical drains in underground water tanks. The rainwater gathered will be used to wash industrial vehicles. The new buildings are heated by warm water from the Barje hazardous waste disposal site with the water being heated up by utilising surplus heat from the generation of electricity by landfill gases in gas engines.

It is foreseen that photovoltaic systems will be installed on the upper surfaces of roofs over the car park thus producing solar energy from the entire roof surface that is to be built next year. The next phase of the complex upgrade is to provide a new administrative building and the demolition of the bulk waste sorting facility, on which site the car park is to be built.

With the construction of this complex, all Snaga’s activities will be united at a new location near Barje landfill site and the Ljubljana Regional Waste Management Centre (RCERO Ljubljana), where the construction of waste management facilities is already underway.

A video in which the Snaga of today is connected to its past and future can be seen at Snaga’s website www.mojiodpadki.si.