Smart City Graz Waagner-Biro
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A 400-hectare former industrial site west of Graz's station targets near-zero emissions; its Science Tower makes power from a sun-tracking glass facade. Over a decade on, the district is still filling in lot by lot.
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A 400-hectare district rising on former industrial and rail land west of Graz's main station, built around a near-zero-emission, mixed-use target; its landmark Science Tower (opened 2017) generates part of its own power through a double-shell facade with a 40kWp sun-tracking photovoltaic system, backed by geothermal heating.
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More than a decade after the first buildings opened, the 400-hectare site is still filling in lot by lot — brownfield 'smart city' masterplans run on real-estate timelines, not launch dates, and no district-wide emissions figure has been published to say how close it has come to its near-zero target.
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Smart City Graz Waagner-Biro” — Graz, Austria. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/graz-waagner-biro/ (last verified 2026-08-02). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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