Zurich relies on Madaster
The real estate department of Zurich Insurance Group is testing Madaster's material passport in a housing project in Holland. The building ID should provide insights for future portfolio management. Zurich…
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Empa shows the advantages of high-performance insulating materials
A research team from the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research (Empa) has illustrated the potential of high-performance insulating materials. Thinner materials such as aerogels already pay for…
Schindler and ISS become partners in vertical mobility
Schindler and ISS have signed a global framework agreement. The focus of the cooperation is the development of innovative and sustainable mobility solutions for buildings. Furthermore, the contractual partners are…
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Walo installs new flooring at Stadler
The Dietiker construction company Walo Bertschinger has provided the production halls at Stadler in St.Margarethen SG with a new floor covering. The Haypanol-D covering developed by Walo was used for…
Brivo integrates alarm management from Sitasys
The North American company Brivo integrates the cloud-based alarm management from Sitasys AG into its platform for automated building surveillance. This aims to centralize access, alarms and video surveillance on…
ConReal and ProMaterial want to digitize the construction industry
Proptech ConReal from Winterthur offers digital and analog services for real estate stakeholders. ProMaterial from Düsseldorf specializes in the online sale of construction products. Together they want to digitize the…
Implenia is building district heating tunnels in Hamburg
Client Wärme Hamburg has commissioned Implenia to build a tunnel for the city's new district heating network. The tunnel will cross under the Elbe about 2 kilometers west of the…
SWISSBAU WILL BE POSTPONED TO MAY 2022
Swissbau 2022 cannot take place from January 18th to 21st and will be postponed to May 3rd to 6th, 2022.
Bauwerk Schweiz is under pressure
A group of experts sees the Swiss structure with its buildings and infrastructure under great pressure to innovate. With their view of the big picture, the experts want to generate…
Holcim buys American company
Zug-based cement giant Holcim takes over Marshall Concrete Products from the US state of Minnesota. He wants to further strengthen his position on the American market.
Steel profiles from demolished objects should live on
The steel and construction industry is examining the practicability of reusing used steel profiles from demolition objects. A car park run by the Christoph Merian Foundation in Basel serves as…
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FHNW gets professor for circular building
The Institute for Sustainability and Energy at the University of Architecture, Building and Geomatics at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) is establishing a professorship for circular building.…
Construction of housing estate in Zurich's Guggach area begins
The Simple Living Foundation has started building a new housing estate in Zurich-Unterstrass. Representatives of the city administration broke the first symbolic groundbreaking for the project on the Guggach site.
Holcim is building a 3D-printed settlement
Holcim announces the construction of a housing estate made of 3D-printed houses in Kenya. The 52-building project is the largest of its kind in Africa. It aims to accelerate the…
Empa concrete project receives funding
The future fund of the Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs- und Forschungsanstalt (Empa) has received funding from the Ernst Göhner Foundation. They should enable a research project for new types of concrete.
Office space market is holding up better than expected
The trend towards working from home has increased the supply on the office space market less than feared. Credit Suisse found this in a study. According to her, the office…
Apartment rents and prices rise towards the end of the year
November revealed both rising rents and higher prices for the purchase of condominiums. There is no change in the offers for single-family homes. The resurgence of the pandemic is likely…
Implenia is building five buildings for SBB
Implenia is building five buildings on behalf of SBB Immobilien on the former Malley industrial site to the west of Lausanne. A sustainable residential and business district is being created…