Danish Power Plant Ski Slope Complete
Danish Power Plant Ski Slope Complete
Published : 14-Dec-2018 02:04
An artificial surface ski slope down the sloping side of a power plant has been completed, at least in terms of top to bottom coverage, in the past few days.
The ski-slope-on-a-power-plant project, near Copenhagen, has attracted global coverage since first announced more than six years ago but its completion has been repeatedly delayed over the past few years.
Designed by innovative architects BIG, the new Amagar Bakke waste-to-power plant near Copenhagen was designed with a sloping roof specifically to be used as one of the world's longest artificial surface ski slopes. Escalators up through the plant take skiers to the top of the building, which will also be home to the world's highest artificial climbing wall on one of its vertical sides.
The power plant began operating over a year ago but there has been slow progress on the skislope which was expected to finally open last month, then this month, and now the date being suggested in March 2019.
The surface material being used is Neveplast from an Italian manufacturer which also supplied new slopes at Hillend in Edinburgh, one of the UK's largest dry slope centres, a few years ago.
The slope at the facility, which has been christened 'Copenhill' has been laid from the top and the bottom of the slope simultaneously, a little like construction of the Channel Tunnel, with the two teams meeting in the middle yesterday.
One issue with the project has been an attempt to create a 'natural hillside' on top of the power plant with plants and grass growing below and through the slope. Last summer the team working on the slope said they were having issues getting these plants established.
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