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Avobis launches real estate platform

The Avobis Group has launched a real estate platform that covers all areas from search and financing to buying or selling. Property Captain uses artificial intelligence to compare claims and…

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Kompotoi is a finalist in the Swiss Excellence Product Award

Kompotoi is nominated for one of this year's Swiss Excellence Product Awards. The Zurich start-up rents, plans and sells environmentally friendly wooden composting toilets for events, public spaces and private…

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FHNW trains in geodata analysis

The University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) will offer practical training in geodata analysis from January. It is intended to convey digital skills for the intelligent cities of the…

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Lumineo installs translucent concrete for Vinci

The globally active construction and energy group Vinci has commissioned the Lumineo Group to design a wall with translucent concrete in the entrance hall of its new Paris headquarters. Lumineo…

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Mobiliar and Raiffeisen launch platform for home ownership

Mobiliar and Raiffeisen are launching the Liiva residential property platform. This is intended to support users in matters relating to the acquisition, modernization and sale of private residential property.

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Graubünden promotes recyclable building materials

The canton of Graubünden is trying to stimulate the demand for recyclable building materials. Together with the Graubünden Concrete and Gravel Industry Association, he has developed a brochure on this.…

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Lucerne University of Applied Sciences is dedicated to climate-friendly building

In its study “Ready for Climate Change?”, The Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts developed concrete recommendations for action for climate-friendly building. They should make cooling and air conditioning…

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Implenia is back in the black

Implenia closed the 2020 financial year with a loss in the three-digit million range. In the first half of 2021, the construction and real estate company reported a positive operating…

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Focus on ecosystems

More and more insurance companies and banks are trying to build their own “living” ecosystem - with the aim of strengthening or expanding their market position, for example in the…

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New perovskite solar cells pass the lead test

Researchers at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland have shown that the lead contained in the new and well-packaged perovskite solar cells hardly leaks out. Now they are developing…

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Drone creates digital twin of Zurich

The drone start-up Wingtra has created a high-precision digital twin for the city of Zurich. His drone only needed six hours to fly for this. Such 3D maps can help…

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The federal government is also aiming for net zero for soil protection

The federal government's net zero target applies not only to climate protection but also to soil protection: no more soil should be lost in Switzerland by 2050. The Federal Office…

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Empa strengthens concrete buildings

Researchers at the Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs- und Forschungsanstalt (Empa) have improved a technology in which concrete structures are stabilized with carbon fiber-reinforced plastic. Empa's pre-tensioned lamellas are now to be brought…

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Jaisli-Xamax is building underground in Bern

Jaisli-Xamax has connected the innovative Ethos devices to the new radio-oncology facility at Bern's Inselspital. The special equipment is housed in a three-storey underground building of the clinic.

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Holcim launches CO2-reduced cement

Holcim is launching a new sustainable cement. This causes 30 percent less CO2 emissions than conventional alternatives. In the current year it will be offered in 15 countries.

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Nidwalden receives facility for recycling building materials

ARGE EvoREC has put a new plant for the production of sustainable building materials into operation in the canton of Nidwalden. With this, high-quality new secondary raw materials are to…

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5 good reasons for a tech check

Every company should ask itself from time to time: Are we ready for the future? Logical - you will think so. Most of the time, however, these considerations revolve around…

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Urban Land Institute has a new chairman

Professor Jürgen Marc Volm is the new head of the Urban Land Institute Switzerland. Among other things, he wants to advance the sustainability debate in the domestic branch of the…

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