EILO Best Project Awards 2021

EILO Best Project Awards 2021 52 indoor greenery projects from 15 countries show that the future is green! Every two years EILO – the European Interior Landscaping Organisation – organises its Best Project Competition. EILO’s aim is to connect professional interior landscapers to share knowledge, expertise and inspiration and with this competition it wants to generate attention for interior landscaping ...

2nd SEED Call

2nd SEED Call of the metabuilding Innovation plattform 2nd of November - 26th of January 2022 SEED Innovation Vouchers, up to €5000, are available to SME’s to support an innovation project or new idea. The vouchers can be used to finance (or part-finance) external support from technical, legal, financial, and business experts. SEED vouchers provide SME’s with a solid foundation ...

New MOOC – Nature-based Urban Regeneration!

New MOOC - Nature-based Urban Regeneration! MOOC = Massiv Open Online Course How can we use nature to improve life in our cities? ProGIreg is launching its first MOOC 1st of November on edX, one of the foremost massive open online course (MOOC) providers created by Harvard and MIT. The course gathers the best practices of the proGIreg Living Labs. The course will ...

Green Market Report Germany 2020

BuGG-Market Report on Building Greening 2020 Green Roofs, Green Facades and Interior Greening in Germany Excerpted translation of the original German version The German Association of Building Greening „Bundesverband GebäudeGrün e.V. (BuGG)“ has published the first BuGG-Market Report on Building Greening 2020 to present the most crucial available figures on roof, facade and interior greening in Germany. It intends to ...

Metabuilding – Cross-sectoral innovation Calls for SME´s

METABUILDING Cross-sectional and cross-border innovation ecosystem for European SME's H2020 METABUILDING (2020-2023) METABUILDING offers financial support for innovation. The METABUILDING project consortium will manage the open calls directed at SME’s that wish to engage in collaboration outside of their sector to bring innovation to the construction sector. Please follow this link to find out more information. METABUILDING target sectors. Innovation within the ...

International webinar showcasing how cities will benefit from taking an extra-dimensional approach to city greening through green roofs and walls

International webinar showcasing how cities will benefit from taking an extra-dimensional approach to city greening through green roofs and walls As the environmental, health and economic benefits of green roofs and walls are recognised across the globe, cities are integrating green infrastructure to both solve sustainability issues and create a greener future. ‘Green roofs and walls’ is the third climate ...

The Swedish Green Roof Handbook

The Swedish Green Roof Handbook - a new updated version The Swedish green roof handbook is a local adaptation of the knowledge that has been gathered over many years in Sweden, Germany and other parts of the world. The idea with our handbook has been to not only point out how to do but also try to explain how and ...

Scandinavian News: The Scandinavian Green Roof Award 2020 & The Blue-Green Event

An update on past events and awards in Scandinavia The Scandinavian Green Roof Award 2020 The Green Roof Award has been given out annually to the best green roof project in Scandinavia since the award's inception in 2000, as an initiative of The City of Malmö. The award is intended to inspire the Scandinavian green roof market toward excellence and ...

New reference-project in Budapest

New reference-project in Budapest The abundant brownfield lands of Budapest possess special potential in the green infrastructure politics of the Hungarian capital. The Millenáris Széllkapu Park completed in 2019 provides an excellent example for the development of these areas. The fact alone that one of the most valuable properties of the city has been used for urban green area development ...

ÖNORM LL1136 – New standard for vertical greening

Austrian standard for vertical greening (ÖNORM L1136) New standard for vertical greening is published MA31, Vienna (c) Weiss-Tessbach "The aim of the new ÖNORM is to establish and maintain sustainable greening of façades all year round, taking into account seasons, geographical and climatic location as well as the greening objective" explains Ing. Stefan Brunnauer, VfB’s Head of Technical Committee for ...