Minerva Zuiderdiep is built in 1984, using 2 million bricks. In that year the city of Groningen had about 170.000 inhabitants. This means that for every inhabitant, about 12 stones were used to build this building. (Actually 11,79).
Performance about water use in the paper industry AND your daily 10 minute shower.
To make one a4, about 10 liters of water is used.
Most people shower for an average of 10 minutes everyday. During that period an average of 120 liters of water is used. Which means it takes about 12 a4’s to shower every day.
The Minerva Zuiderdiep building has a physical connection to a housing complex. I counted all the doors and the stickers that say if the inhabitants want to receive advertisement folders, if they even have a sticker telling that. These data are put into this infographic.
