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Innovator turned entrepreneur - Professor Gabriela Medero’s journey from laboratory to market is an inspiration for every academic. Professor Gabriela Medero, Associate Principal (Enterprise), is the creator of a revolutionary brick made from more than 90% construction waste material. Named K-BRIQ®, Prof. Medero’s invention was more than 10 years in the making and addresses a key global environmental issue that’s close to her heart. It all started when she joined Heriot-Watt University in 2006 as a lecturer in Civil Engineering within the School of the Built Environment. A keen environmentalist, Prof. Medero decided to combine her expertise with her lifelong interest in preserving the planet and its finite resources. "The environment has always been one of my greatest passions,” she says as a globally travelled scientist who’s deeply concerned about the future of the planet. The K-BRIQ®, which has less than 5% of the carbon footprint of a traditional clay brick, is manufactured by Kenoteq - a company Prof Medero co-founded with Dr Sam Chapman. The Edinburgh-based start-up is a prime example of a company that has successfully spun out from Heriot-Watt University. Prof Medero says: “Over a decade ago I was working on a research project into material composition. I was exploring sustainable, traditional construction methods, and identifying the many limitations of historical techniques for modern-day applications. Out of this research came the K-BRIQ® and in the years since, our team has worked with engineers, architects, chemists, and geologists to develop an eco-friendly alternative to traditional clay bricks.” Read more: https://lnkd.in/e22xy4PS #innovation #commercialisation #builtenvironment #netzero #circulareconomy #founders

Introducing NUtech Ventures' 2023 Innovators! Marc Maguire, Associate Professor in The Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, received the Breakthrough Innovation of the Year award. The award recognizes a technology developed in the past year that will likely have a profound effect on industry, business or a field of study. Maguire led a University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engineering research team that developed a plant-based mixture for concrete masonry blocks. This plant-based mixture is environmentally friendly and sustainable and helps meet the world’s construction demands. Additionally, the load-bearing capable, hemp-based composite is lighter than traditional cement while meeting the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) standards for load-bearing masonry units regarding strength, water absorption and weight. Maguire noted that this new product has the potential to significantly change the construction industry. #InnovationUnleashed #InnovationAtWork #techtransfer #construction #constructionindustry #innovators #entrepreneurlife #entrepreneurship

"Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) introduce a polymer-based material with unique properties in the journal Nature Communications. This material allows sunlight to enter, maintains a more comfortable indoor climate without additional energy, and cleans itself like a lotus leaf. The new development could replace glass components in walls and roofs in the future. The research team has successfully tested the material in outdoor tests on the KIT campus. Maximizing natural light in buildings is popular and can save on energy costs. However, traditional glass roofs and walls also present problems such as glare, lack of privacy, and overheating. Alternative solutions, such as coatings and light-diffusing materials, have not yet provided a comprehensive remedy." #transparentmetamaterial #selfcleaning #passivecooling

Tight budgets, combined with the utilization of standard materials, systems, and construction methods, often result in uninspiring prototypical schools. But when the School District of Osceola County reached out to Little to design NeoCity Academy, the design team took an innovative approach. Instead of looking at existing models, they incorporated sustainable features within the strict budget, resulting in Florida’s first high-performance, net-zero public school. Completed in 2019, the 500-student, magnet STEM public high school was designed to meet a performance goal of 76% less energy and realize zero-energy use over 12 months. Its solar power system produces enough electricity to offset what the building uses over an entire year. The school saves $112,000 per year in energy costs, and life-cycle costs will save the school system $3.2 million over 20 years! The NeoCity Academy story illustrates how forward-thinking design and sustainable practices can overcome budget constraints to create a high-performance, net-zero energy school. The project, along with Project Architect and Regen CoLab Director at Little, Philip Donovan, AIA LFA, is featured in the upcoming book Creating the Regenerative School by Alan Ford, Kate Mraw, and Betsy del Monte. The hardcover book will be published on September 1 and can be pre-ordered on Amazon here: #schooldesign #netzeroschools #netzerodesign

📣Calling All Construction Experts! Are you an expert from research, industry, policy, or civil society with deep knowledge and experience in the #construction sector? Then, you should join the construction workshop of the series “Pathway to DESIGN the circular bio-based transition” organized by SUSTRACK! ❓Why Attend?❓ This workshop series is designed to: 🔍 Dive deep into the policy, environmental, societal, and economic dimensions of transitioning from a linear fossil-based economy to a #circular #BioBased one in the construction sector and selected value chains. 🤝 Co-create tailored #policy recommendations, paving the way for future policy developments at regional, national, and European levels. Don't miss out on the opportunity to: 📌 Hear inspirational case studies from leading experts, who will share their success stories, challenges and insights: discover which case studies will be explored in the workshop by scrolling the images below! 📌 Make your voice heard in dynamic discussions on policy, environmental, societal, and economic dimensions of the circular bio-based economy transition in the construction sector. Let's DESIGN a #sustainable future together: Save the Date! 🗓️ 10th of July 2024 ⏰ 10:00 - 12:00 CEST 💻 Online Agenda and registration 👉 https://lnkd.in/dkNytNrK Università degli Studi di Roma UnitelmaSapienza Wageningen University & Research KnowlEdge Srl PEDAL Consulting DBFZ Deutsches Biomasseforschungszentrum gemeinnützige GmbH Universiteit Gent Woodlab Gent TECNALIA Research & Innovation TECNALIA Circular Economy FVA New Media Research CERCIS CEntre For Research on Circular Economy Innovation and SMEs Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung CIRCE - Centro Tecnológico

My project URBAN-DELTA: Metropolises in the Mud. Innovation in Delta Building Technology in Europe and China in the pre-Industrial Age has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant. Urban deltas are among the most densely populated parts of the earth, but their success is a relatively recent phenomenon. Until two centuries ago, most civilisations preferred higher, solid ground. This project studies technological innovations in the production of the built environment in three pioneering deltas that have been urbanised for centuries: the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt (Low Countries), the Po Delta (Venice) and the Yangtze Delta (China). It asks how builders overcame technological limitations. Did innovation occur incrementally or were there bursts at specific times and places? What were the dynamics of these processes and what factors stimulated innovation? Two PhD positions in Construction History and two postdoc positions in Economic History and Chinese Studies/Construction History will be advertised in 2024. European Research Council (ERC) KU Leuven

MSc MADE research forms a huge portion of our impact in tackling Amsterdam’s pressing urban challenges. Metropolitan Analysis, Design and Engineering (MSc MADE) - a joint degree from Delft University of Technology and Wageningen University & Research - is housed within the AMS Institute building on the Marineterrein Amsterdam, and the ‘urban engineers’ in training forge close links with our work via Living Labs, experiments, and more. With #Amsterdam as a Living Lab, students are connected to real-world challenges in the city and work alongside researchers, the City of Amsterdam, businesses, and others. 💥 The slider below highlights two brilliant pieces of research from MSc MADE students: 🌟 Jonas van der Ham’s circular economy research explores how biobased materials, such as straw and #hemp, can be used as low-carbon alternatives in building insulation materials. 🌟 Matias Cardoso Suter’s Mobility research into the ‘walkability’ of Amsterdam assesses different streets in the city, and the results are featured in a dashboard that the Municipality uses. 🌟 Check back next week for more student research highlights! 💭 Are you a student interested in pushing boundaries in practice and science and motivated to work on hands-on projects? Then read more about MSc MADE here: https://lnkd.in/ekuftwWa 👉🏼 Want to learn more about AMS Institute’s impact, from students to startups? Dive into our Annual Report 2023 here: https://lnkd.in/etvcU8Xy #research #sustainableamsterdam #circularbuildings #walkablecities Maurice Harteveld Vasileios Milias Stefan van der Spek Joke Dufourmont Francesco Pittau Juliëtte Mohamed Stijn Brancart Elizabeth Migoni Alejandre Arjan van Timmeren

The Nobel Prize #nobelprize #research #innovativesolution #engineering #innovation #creativity #design #socialinnovation #idea #innovative #railways #trains #rainetwork #transportation #transport #research #innovation #creativity #innovative #sustainable #sustainability Respected Thick Rubber facility at bottom of before wheels for trains if any stones present on tracks helps in removing or moves stones a sides provides better facility and safety Helps in reducing any problems this is my innovative solution

Here at the Cynefin Co. we talk a lot about constraints as things that might create possibilities rather than merely curtail behaviours or desires. David McPherson’s The Virtues of Limits outlines humility, reverence, moderation, contentment, neighbourliness, and loyalty as virtues that constrain us in order to set us free. It is interesting that at least three of the above virtues, if not all, are constraints that surfaced from the narratives in the SenseMaker® study. This #Sensemaker study (#research) is part of the CHARMS project, which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany (BMBF). Traditional buildings in northern Thailand are a matter of #cultural pride and make great tourist attractions, and even more importantly, they are structures in which people actually live, work and play, replete with the inheritances of emotions and memories. While these traditional buildings were built on principles of architecture and design that suited the local environment in terms of the materials available and the styles suitable for the climate, a lot of resources can be spent on preserving and renovating structures that are at times ill-suited to the realities of modern life – increasingly severe effects of #climatechange in terms of pollution and fluctuations in seasonal cycles, and of course, staving off the second law of thermodynamics, aka “things fall apart”. For more information about the project, please visit 👉 https://hubs.la/Q02CZ0mh0 Thanks to Jules Yim for the detailed and informative blog post. Also, Thank you to the Fraunhofer Center for International Management and Knowledge Economy IMW for the partnership & contribution.

💥𝗧𝗨/𝗲-𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 ‘𝗨𝗣𝗦𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗘’ 𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗴𝗼 𝗮𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸𝘀 𝘁𝗼 NWO (Dutch Research Council) 𝗞𝗜𝗖 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 - part as one of four research projects in the NWO KIC funding scheme for 𝘾𝙞𝙧𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙧 𝙀𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙤𝙢𝙮: 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙨𝙩, 𝙗𝙚𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙚𝙥𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚. 𝘜𝘗𝘚𝘊𝘈𝘓𝘌 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘪𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥, 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘪𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳. 𝘛𝘰 𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩-𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘨𝘰𝘢𝘭, 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮, 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘭, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘥. 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 €1.3 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘕𝘞𝘖'𝘴 𝘒𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘭𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘊𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘵 (𝘒𝘐𝘊) 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭 ‘𝘊𝘪𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘺: 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘵, 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘳, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦’, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘜/𝘦-𝘤𝘰𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵 ‘𝘜𝘗𝘚𝘊𝘈𝘓𝘌’, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳. 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲, 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗼𝘄 👇 Three PhD projects are granted in Eindhoven University of Technology, Delft University of Technology, and Utrecht University, under supervision of Pieter Pauwels, Ekaterina Petrova, Laura Piscicelli, Qi Han, Tong Wang Ph.D., Daniel M. Hall, Rik Eshuis, and Paul Chan. Hogeschool Rotterdam will actively participate and support in bringing this to market and practical application through the lead of Tomasz Jaskiewicz, and in interaction with SPARK Campus and VONK Rotterdam of City of Rotterdam. The project includes active industry participation by ABN AMRO Bank N.V. and Huisrijk, as well as VolkerWessels, Witteveen+Bos, Adex Groep, BIM-Connected, InnoTractor, Madaster, and Martens keramiek bv. Eindhoven University of Technology will contribute primarily with a novel IT infrastructure, besides coordinating. Congratulations to all involved, and especially to our Associate Professor Pieter Pauwels, and our Assistant Professor Ekaterina Petrova! 👏 🎉 We are looking forward to hearing more about the project and, of course, sharing it with the world! 🌐 #linkedbuildingdata #circularity #AEC #PhD #research #innovation #BIM #digitaltwinning #behavior #economy #circulareconomy