Smart Environment

Resysten Hungary Kft. was founded in 2014. After years of research, the company has developed a unique, durable hygienic coating system that helps reduce the possibility of contact transmission of infections. It is an invisible, photocatalytic coating that can be used as a first-line protection system against the spread of infections and epidemics. Over the past seven years, the technology has already been proven in several places; public transport facilities, health care facilities, office buildings, community spaces, schools, factories and sports clubs have been surface treated.

This is a family-based company based in Czechia that has made a real change in urban tree planting over the past 5 years by introducing watering bags for newly planted trees. Mortality of newly planted trees decreased from 50%-60% to nearly 0%. Since 2018, the company has been looking for solutions to save large urban trees during climate change and to boost them to 100% of their ecosystem services. It has developed a product and a method that makes this possible. It has filed an international patent application. But it has discovered more than it could ever have imagined

Hellovelo Corporation specialises in electric bicycle fleet rental and operation, enabling employers to expand their company benefit structure with top of the range, premium quality electric bicycles. Electric bikes innovatively support environmental protection and the health of employees, while being more cost-effective than ordinary car fleets. Hellovelo provides these vehicles and ensures their continuous maintenance.

As a result of its research, the company have developed and created its own hydroponic equipment, which, beyond the advantages of hydroponic technology, can be rotated manually or automatically. This way, up to 25% less energy needs to be used for lighting than if it were illuminated on all sides. Due to the innovative design of the equipment, the size of the system can be adapted on demand. The company currently sells equipment one by one, as well as large systems by building several towers together.

The smart sewer inspection system will be deployed in every district of Seoul next year. Seoul is set to become the first city in Korea to use artificial intelligent (AI) technologies to identify defects in its sewer network.

The goal of FBSoil is to improve the fertility of forest soils and to restore poor quality soils with environmentally-friendly soil conditioners. Its project is currently in the product development phase, and the company is working on the preparation of the MVP. The company was established at the end of 2020. The objective is to produce an eco-friendly product that will help advance sustainable regenerative agriculture and stop and reverse soil degradation.

The London Borough of Harrow has added high-definition street-level imagery and lidar data to its corporate GIS system, giving staff access to an accurate digital twin of the borough.

The move is designed to improve the efficiency of various tasks in planning, highways and council tax and reduce the overall need for physical site visits.

What used to be a massive concrete grain silo metamorphosed into an inventively designed art museum. The Victoria & Alfred Waterfront municipality approached London-based architectural firm, Heatherwick Studio, to bring the new attraction to life as part of a 123-hectare mixed-use development. 

One of the most successful residential reuse projects is Gasometer City, in Vienna Austria. Four immense disused gasometers were successfully revamped in the late ‘90s and have since become infamous in the world of adaptive reuse.

Built in 1896, when Viennese authorities decided to invest in large-scale coal gas and electricity supplies, the gas plant serviced the locale and beyond for a good 88 years, until it was shut down permanently in 1984 after natural gas supplies took over

Of the various roofing materials, the production of concrete tiles is one of the most energy-efficient and environmentally friendly. Concrete is made of four natural raw materials: limestone, river sand, water and iron oxide. Domestic production is a responsible step in itself, as the products have a much shorter journey thanks to inland transport, and therefore less impact on the environment.