(IN BRIEF) Vesteda has been nominated for an international BREEAM Award in the “In-Use Performance” category for existing buildings, with the nomination covering its entire residential portfolio of more than 28,000 homes rather than a single property. This makes Vesteda … Read the full press release
Posted in Awards, Business, Construction, Environment, Management, Netherlands, Real Estate, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged 000 homes, 28, Astrid Schlüter, B Corp certification, better insulation, BREEAM Award, BREEAM certification, BREEAM In-Use Performance, BREEAM Nomination Highlights Vesteda’s Portfolio-Wide Progress on Energy, certified residential portfolio, CO₂ emissions, data-driven sustainability, Dulce Rustenberg, energy consumption, ESG, existing buildings, Franc de Korte, Housing as a force for good, housing sustainability, independent benchmarking, landlords, London, lower energy costs, neighbourhood quality, Netherlands, Operational improvements, portfolio-wide certification, real estate sustainability, rental homes, residential portfolio, Stephan de Bie, sustainable property management, tenant comfort, VESTEDA, Vesteda Becomes Largest Certified Residential Portfolio Nominated for International BREEAM Award, Vesteda’s Entire Residential Portfolio Recognised in BREEAM In-Use Performance Award Nomination, Water and CO₂ Performance, water consumption
(IN BRIEF) TÜV Rheinland emphasizes the substantial environmental footprint of the real estate sector, which accounts for up to 40 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, while highlighting the significant opportunities for climate protection through sustainable construction practices. Certified buildings … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Construction, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Germany, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Management, Real Estate, Security & Safety, Technology
Tagged BNG, BNK, certification, climate neutrality, climate protection, DGNB, energy consumption, ESG criteria, EU taxonomy, Europe construction market, German Sustainable Building Council, green buildings, greenhouse gas emissions, Growing Demand for Green Buildings Drives TÜV Rheinland’s Expanded Support for Sustainable Real Estate Development and Certification, indoor air quality, LEED, life cycle assessment, logistics center Rhine-Main, property value increase, QNG, real estate industry, Rhineland-Palatinate housing project, sustainable buildings, sustainable construction, TÜV Rheinland, TÜV Rheinland Strengthens Role in Advancing Climate-Neutral Buildings Through Comprehensive Testing and Certification Services
(IN BRIEF) In celebration of World Environment Day, CERN has announced its updated environmental objectives for 2030, reflecting its ongoing commitment to sustainable research. These new goals focus on nine key environmental areas, including energy, emissions reduction, water management, biodiversity, … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Environment, Financial, Industrial, Investment, Management, Media, News, Science, Switzerland, Technology
Tagged biodiversity, CERN, CO₂ reduction, energy consumption, environmental objectives, environmental protection, greenhouse gas emissions, Large Hadron Collider, noise control, Radioactive waste, scientific research, sustainability, waste recovery, water management, World Environment Day
(IN BRIEF) Hexagon’s Mining division has acquired Drill Assist from Phoenix Drill Control, LLC, a move that accelerates AI-driven drill automation. The technology improves drilling performance by optimizing penetration rates, providing precise downhole data, and enhancing machine availability. Drill Assist … Read the full press release
Posted in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business, Industrial, Management, Metals and Minerals, Sweden, Technology
Tagged AI-Driven Automation, artificial intelligence, autonomous drilling, blast planning, downhole data, Drill Assist, drilling technology, energy consumption, Hexagon, machine availability, mining, mining solutions, operator training, penetration rate, Phoenix Drill Control
(IN BRIEF) Eneco’s latest white paper advocates for government policies to support households in shifting their electricity consumption to off-peak hours, which can ease grid congestion and better utilize sustainable energy. The company is also introducing a new off-peak energy … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Management, Netherlands, News, Technology
Tagged electrical grid, Eneco, Eneco VoordeelMomenten, energy consumption, energy data, energy incentives, energy savings, energy suppliers, flex bonus, government policy, grid congestion, home batteries, off-peak contract, smart energy use, sustainable energy, VAT removal, white paper
(IN BRIEF) Protergia, Greece’s largest private energy provider, has launched Protergia Picasso, a game-changing electricity product offering consumers the ability to pay a fixed monthly rate for their electricity bill over a year. This new product reflects Protergia’s rebranding around … Read the full press release
Posted in Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, European Union, Greece, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Metals and Minerals
Tagged Aigli Zappeion, customer-centricity, energy consumption, energy industry, energy market, energy product, energy solutions, fixed monthly payments, Greece, GROWTH, INNOVATION, Konstantinos Vouzas, market share, Metlen, Protergia, Protergia Picasso, residential customers, small business customers, smart technologies, transparency, Vivian Bouzali, Yiannis Kalafatas
(IN BRIEF) Železničná spoločnosť Slovensko (ZSSK) has signed a contract with Stadler for up to four KISS double-deck trains to enhance Slovakia’s rail network. The new trains, set to operate between Bratislava and Žilina, will improve passenger comfort and capacity, … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Environment, Financial, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, News, Slovakia, Switzerland, Technology, Transportation & Logistics, Travel
Tagged Bratislava, Emissions Reduction, energy consumption, fleet renewal, KISS double-deck trains, partnership, public transport, rail transport, Slovak Railways, Stadler, Stadler Polska, Stadler Prague, sustainability, train technology, Železničná spoločnosť Slovensko, Žilina, ŽSSK
(IN BRIEF) The press release announces that the NWO has allocated over 7.7 million euros for four projects aimed at digitizing energy renovation efforts in the built environment. A primary focus of these projects, especially the DPARt project coordinated by … Read the full press release
Posted in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business, Education, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Financial, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, Netherlands, News, Science, Technology
Tagged agent-based simulation, AI gamification, built environment, co-funding, consortium partners, Data Governance, digital models, digitalization, DPARt, Dujuan Yang, energy consumption, energy renovations, homeowners associations, INNOVATION, leadership, living labs, NWO, NWO-KIC, partnership, Public Private Partnership, Qi Han, sustainability, sustainable renovations, TU/e, Virtual Reality, VvE
(IN BRIEF) The National Wealth Fund has announced a significant financial guarantee of up to £400 million to support a series of new loans provided by NatWest Group for retrofitting social housing in the UK. The objective of this initiative … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Business, Economy, Financial, Industrial, Investment, Management, News, United Kingdom
Tagged biodiversity, decarbonisation, Decent Homes Standard, energy consumption, energy efficient, EPC rating, financial guarantee, green retrofit, insulation, John Flint, National Wealth Fund, NatWest Group, Paul Thwaite, private capital, renewable energy, Resilience Measures, retrofit, Royal Bank of Scotland, social housing, UK housing, Ulster Bank
(IN BRIEF) Researchers at the Technical University of Munich have developed a new method for training neural networks that is 100 times faster and more energy-efficient than traditional iterative approaches. By using probabilities instead of iterative adjustments, the method reduces … Read the full press release
Posted in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business, Education, Energy, Gas & Oil, Financial, Germany, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, News, Science, Technology
Tagged Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, AI, artificial intelligence, climate modeling, data centers, energy consumption, energy efficiency, Felix Dietrich, financial forecasting, iterative methods, large language models, Munich Center for Machine Learning, Munich Data Science Institute, Neural Information Processing Systems, neural networks, NeurIPS, Physics-enhanced Machine Learning, probabilities, Technical University of Munich, TUM
(IN BRIEF) Rothesay has committed £150m to a new unsecured debt facility for social housing retrofitting, launched by the National Wealth Fund (NWF) and The Housing Finance Corporation (THFC). The facility, with an initial £150m guarantee from the NWF, enables … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Insurance, Investment, Management, News, Real Estate, United Kingdom
Tagged bond market investors, capital, Chancellor of the Exchequer, decarbonization, demand, emissions, energy consumption, energy efficiency, financial guarantee, housing stock, institutional capital, John Flint, long-term loans, National Wealth Fund, net zero, NWF, NWF Chief Executive Officer, Priya Nair, Rachel Reeves, registered providers, Rothesay, Rothesay Chief Executive, RPs, secured lending, social housing retrofit, Sustainable Communities, The Housing Finance Corporation, THFC, THFC Chief Executive, Tom Pearce, unsecured debt facility, £250m
(IN BRIEF) KSB Group is set to launch its MultiTec Plus pump series by the end of February 2025, with the size 150 variant designed for drinking water transport. These pumps are optimized for hydraulic efficiency and energy savings, integrating … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Construction, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Germany, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, News, Technology
Tagged axial thrust balancing, carbon footprint, casing pressures, casing wear rings, customizable nozzle arrangements, drinking water transport, durability, energy consumption, energy efficiency, flow rate, four-pole three-phase motors, horizontal installation, hydraulic efficiency, KSB Cloud, KSB Group, KSB Guard, maintenance costs, maximum head, monitoring system, MultiTec Plus, noise emissions, pump series, PumpDrive, reliability, service life, silicon carbide, synchronous reluctance motors, temperature, variable speed systems, vertical installation, vibration data, wear-protected transition areas
(IN BRIEF) ANDRITZ has successfully launched a new pressurized refining system at the Wisewoods mill in Phetchaburi, Thailand, enhancing the mill’s production capacity for high-quality medium density fiberboard from rubberwood. The system’s high-efficiency technology improves fiber quality while reducing energy … Read the full press release
Posted in Austria, Environment, Industrial, Technology
Tagged Andritz, ASIA, collaboration, dewatering, energy consumption, fiber quality, global supplier, high-efficiency pressurized refiner, Ltd, MDF products, Medium Density Fiberboard, Middle East, panelboard industry, Phetchaburi, Plug Screw Feeder, pre-steaming, pressurized refining system, production capacity, Refining, rubberwood, technology group, THAILAND, Wisewoods, Wisewoods Co., wood panel industry
(IN BRIEF) Capgemini, the AI and Society Institute, the Ecole normale supérieure (ENS-PLS), and the ENS Foundation have launched a global Observatory focused on analyzing and mitigating the environmental impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) across its entire lifecycle. The initiative … Read the full press release
Posted in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business, Environment, Financial, France, Government, Industrial, Investment, Management, News, Technology
Tagged adjustment, AI and Society Institute, AI lifecycle, AI models, Anne Bouverot, artificial intelligence, Capgemini, Capgemini research, carbon emissions, collaboration, École Normale Supérieure, end-of-life, energy consumption, ENS Foundation, ENS-PLS, environmental footprint, environmental impact, Etienne Grass, generative AI, inference, Marc Mézard, methodology, Observatory, partnership, stakeholders, sustainability, sustainable AI practices, training, transparency
(IN BRIEF) Samotics, a leading Dutch company in electrical data analytics, has secured €20 million in financing from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to accelerate its research and development on AI-driven technology designed to enhance the reliability and energy efficiency … Read the full press release
Posted in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Banks, Business, Economy, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Financial, Government, Industrial, Investment, Luxembourg, Management, Netherlands, News, Technology
Tagged AI, AI-powered technology, condition monitoring, decarbonization, EIB, electric motors, electrical data analytics, electrical signature analysis, energy consumption, energy efficiency, energy inefficiencies, ESA, European Commission, European Investment Bank, green transition, industrial reliability, Industry 4.0, InvestEU initiative, Jasper Hoogeweegen, malfunction detection, microchips, operating costs, partnership, predictive analytics, Robert de Groot, Samotics, sustainability, €20 million financing
(IN BRIEF) Infineon Technologies AG has launched the OPTIGA™ Connect Consumer OC1230, a cutting-edge eSIM solution designed to reduce energy consumption by 50% compared to existing models, extending battery life while maintaining high performance. This compact, GSMA-compliant eSIM is ideal … Read the full press release
Posted in Electronics & Machinery, Germany, Technology
Tagged 28 nm eSIM solution, 5G routers, Arm® v8, battery life, BSI-CC-PP-0100-2018, chip-scale packaging, energy consumption, flexibility, GSMA SGP.22 v3, GSMA-compliant, Infineon Technologies AG, Integrity Guard 32, IoT applications, mobile network profiles, multiple profiles, OPTIGA Connect Consumer OC1230, PCB space, POS payment terminals, power/performance ratio, PQC, remote management, remote SIM provisioning, SECURITY, SIM card, Smartphone, smartphones, wearables, X2QFN20 package
(IN BRIEF) Alfa Laval has introduced Extend™, a pioneering technology that revolutionizes dairy processing by reducing water, chemical, and energy consumption during pasteurization. The system, which can be easily installed on existing heat exchangers, reduces bacterial buildup, extends the cleaning … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Environment, Financial, Food & Beverage, Industrial, Investment, Management, News, Sweden, Technology
Tagged Alfa Laval, Anna Andrys, bacteria buildup, biofilm, chemical use, CIP, cleaning chemicals, cleaning in place, climate change, compliance, dairy industry, dairy processing, efficient energy use, energy consumption, energy savings, environmental goals, environmental impact, Extend™, global trade, heat exchangers, heat exchangers compatibility, pasteurization, profitability, resource consumption, Scandinavia, Strategic Project Manager, sustainability, technical specifications, uptime, water consumption, water savings, water scarcity
(IN BRIEF) ÖBB Rail Cargo Group (RCG) has been ranked in the top 5% of companies globally in the EcoVadis sustainability rating, earning EcoVadis Gold status for the fourth consecutive year. RCG excelled in environmental sustainability, labor, and human rights, … Read the full press release
Posted in Austria, Awards, Business, Environment, Financial, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, News, Technology, Transportation & Logistics
Tagged 000 trains, 18 countries, 419, 78 million net tonnes, Advanced rating, Awards, Carbon Scorecard, Clemens Först, climate protection, CSR, diversity, EcoVadis Gold status, EcoVadis Sustainability Rating, end-to-end logistics services, energy consumption, energy efficiency, environmental sustainability, equal pay, equality, European economy, freight transport, greenhouse gas emissions, Inclusion, labor and human rights, leadership, logistics, logistics professionals, modern software solutions, ÖBB, ÖBB Rail Cargo Group, rail freight, rail logistics, rail transport, RCG, reclaimed materials, recruitment, sustainability, sustainable procurement, top 5%
(IN BRIEF) Electric vehicles (EVs) are essential for decarbonizing the transport sector, yet concerns regarding the sustainability of materials used in their electric motors persist. A recent IDTechEx report predicts a demand for over 160 million electric motors annually by … Read the full press release
Posted in Automotive, Electronics & Machinery, Environment, Industrial, Marketing, Metals and Minerals, Science, Technology, Transportation & Logistics, United Kingdom
Tagged acidification, aluminum, automotive, battery system, copper, decarbonisation, decarbonizing the transport sector, Dr James Edmondson, electric cars, electric motor, electric motors, electric vehicles, energy consumption, eutrophication, EV, EV components, EV market, EV's drivetrain, EVs, global warming, IDTechEx, ozone depletion, photochemical ozone creation, rare earth materials, RESEARCH, STEEL, sustainability, transport sector
(IN BRIEF) Logicor has renewed its lease agreement with BSH Hausgeräte GmbH for a 52,000 sqm logistics property in Nauen, Brandenburg, Germany. This renewal includes a Green Lease clause, committing both parties to resource conservation and energy optimization, thus contributing … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Germany, Industrial, Transportation & Logistics
Tagged Bosch Group, Brandenburg, BSH Hausgeräte GmbH, climate protection, competitive pricing, comprehensive solutions, Country Manager Germany, economic growth, economic hub, energy consumption, energy optimization, Germany, Green Lease clause, lease agreement, Logicor, logistics, logistics property, Moritz Heißenberg, natural resources, Nauen, resource conservation, Robert Bosch GmbH, Siemens AG, strategic value, sustainability
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