Bahrain pavilion among most sustainable in Expo Milano

Milano, Oct. 2 (BNA): Bahrain's pavilion entitled "Archaeologies of Green" was ranked as one of the most sustainable pavilions in Expo Milano 2015. The representatives of Bahrain pavilion were invited to a celebration themed "Towards a Sustainable Expo – A legacy for Sustainability," held on the 1st of October 2015, at the presence of the Italian Minister for the Environment, Gian Luca Galletti, the Commissioner of the Government of Italy for Expo Milano 2015 and CEO Expo 2015 Company, Giuseppe Sala and the Director and Regional Representative UNEP Regional Office for Europe, Jan Dusik. Most sustainable pavilions were chosen based on their respect for the principles and standards of the Expo this year in order to encourage their outstanding and professional work. The principles included the guidelines adopted in 2013 regarding the design, construction, stages of disassembly and re-use of temporary pavilions, as well as environmental guidelines issued in 2014 to support the adoption of environmental standards during designing and constructing the pavilions. Bahrain pavilion was ranked as one of the countries that respected sustainable building, based on allowing the dismantling and reconstructing the pavilion again, which will be implemented by Bahrain Culture and Antiquities Authority (BCAA). The pavilion was built out of white prefabricated concrete panels, the pavilion will be moved to Bahrain at the end of the Expo and once rebuilt will serve as a botanical garden. The prefabricated components of the buildings, visible through the seams that connect them to one another, loosely refer to the inherent and distinguished forms of the archaeology of Bahrain. Bahrain pavilion occupied about 2000 square meters featured ten distinctive fruit gardens, containing trees that will be fruit–bearing at different moments throughout the six-month duration of the exhibition, the pavilion also features archaeological artifacts that celebrate the millennia long tradition of agriculture and perpetuate the many myths of Bahrain as the location of the Garden of Eden and the land of the million palm trees.