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  • Sensor gate from dormakaba receives iF Design Award

    Sensor gate from dormakaba receives iF Design Award

    The new Argus V60 sensor interlock from dormakaba has won an award in the building technology category at this year’s iF Design Awards, the globally active locking technology group from Rümlang informs in a press release. The Argus V60 is designed for foyers with lift systems or office buildings.

    The sensor barrier can also be used to separate floors or parts of the entrance area of buildings. Here, the airlock, which can be integrated “in the smallest of installation spaces”, “blends into the architecture like a piece of furniture”, writes dormakaba. As further advantages of the Argus V60, dormakaba lists “security, elegance and efficiency in the smallest of spaces”.

    With the iF Design Award, the iF International Forum Design GmbH annually honours outstanding achievement in the design of products in a variety of categories. For this year’s iF Design Award, almost 11,000 entries from 56 countries competed for the quality seal for excellent design.

    The iF Design Award is not the first award for the Argus V60. In February, the sensor-equipped personal interlock from dormakaba had already convinced the jury at the German Design Award of the German Design Council.

  • SVSM Awards 2022 awarded

    SVSM Awards 2022 awarded

    The Swiss Association for Location Management SVSM has been presenting the SVSM Awards since 2007. These are awards for particularly innovative projects in the fields of location marketing, location development and economic promotion. For the 2022 awards, 14 applications were received – from municipalities, cities and organisations from Lake Constance to the Upper Valais. A jury evaluated them on the basis of defined criteria and nominated six projects for the 2022 Awards. The nominees then had the opportunity to present their project to the jury. The presentation of the coveted awards finally took place at the beginning of November at the Capitol in Olten as part of the “SVSM Dialogue on Economic Promotion” conference. The SVSM Award 2022 went to the Upper Valais Regional and Economic Centre for the “valais4you” project, which aims to promote the immigration of skilled workers. According to Katharina Hopp, jury president of the SVSM Awards and SVSM board member, the regional cooperation and exemplary collaboration between the private and public sectors were the deciding factors in the jury’s decision: “The various contact points and services cooperate across sectors and thus cover the various needs of newcomers. In addition, the jury found the agile organisational form, which can react flexibly to requirements, to be particularly innovative,” said Hopp in her laudation.

    The jury president was also able to award a second prize on the stage of the Capitol: a special SVSM recognition prize. This went to the Stadtufer cooperative, which is promoting the conversion of the old spinning mill in Lichtensteig, Toggenburg. According to Katharina Hopp, the young, fresh organisation has defied a difficult environment and adverse circumstances: “The jury would like to appreciate the commitment of the cooperative, which has given the project charisma at local and regional level and created an example of innovative location promotion in rural areas, with the recognition award.” The jury president also paid tribute to all the other nominees who received a nomination certificate.

    As part of the SVSM Awards, the SVSM also honours a deserving personality as location manager of the year. in 2022, Christoph Lang, CEO of the Zurich Airport Region FRZ, received the award from Sonja Wollkopf Walt, CEO Greater Zurich Area and jury member of the SVSM Awards. In her laudation, Wollkopf Walt noted that Christoph Lang was not only an undisputedly deserving location manager, but had also played a significant role in shaping the SVSM, as he had been a member of the board since the association was founded in 1998 until 2008.

  • SVSM Award 2022: projects are nominated

    SVSM Award 2022: projects are nominated

    The Swiss Association for Location Management SVSM has been presenting the SVSM Awards annually since 2007. These are awards for particularly innovative projects in the areas of location marketing, location development and business promotion. 14 applications were received for this year's awards – from municipalities, cities and organizations from Lake Constance to Upper Valais. A jury evaluated these based on defined criteria and nominated the following six projects for the 2022 awards:

    • “Big Air Chur” city event – submitted by the city of Chur's business contact point

    • Conversion of the old spinning mill in Lichtensteig – submitted by the Stadtufer cooperative

    • "valais4you" project to promote the immigration of skilled workers –

    submitted by the regional and economic center of Upper Valais

    • Joint project "BIGNIK" to strengthen identification –

    submitted by REGIO Appenzell AR-St.Gallen-Bodensee

    • “Werkstadt Zürisee” to develop the Rütihof workplace area –

    submitted by the city of Wädenswil

    • Launch of the integrated location promotion for the Zurich Oberland –

    Submitted by the Zurich Oberland Promotion Association

    With the nomination, however, the applicants are not yet guaranteed an award: At the end of August, all nominees have the opportunity to present their projects to the jury. The jury consists of the following experts: Katharina Hopp, jury president and board member SVSM; ambassador dr Eric Jakob, Head of the Directorate for Business Promotion SECO; Pascal Jenny, President of Arosa Tourism; Karin Jung, Head of Office for Economy and Labor Canton of St.Gallen; Prof. Dr. Markus Schmidiger, Head of the Real Estate Competence Center

    University of Lucerne; Sonja Wollkopf-Walt, CEO Greater Zurich Area.

    The awards will be presented on Wednesday, November 2, 2022, as part of the hybrid conference "SVSM Dialogue Economic Promotion" in the Capitol cinema in Olten. Incidentally, the location manager of the year is also honored at this event.

  • Nüssli expo pavilions have received numerous awards

    Nüssli expo pavilions have received numerous awards

    Despite the pandemic, the Nüssli project teams built ten country pavilions for the Expo in Dubai on time. As the company has now announced , they have received numerous nominations and a total of 23 awards.

    Five pavilions have been nominated for one of the Expo’s governing body’s prestigious BIE (Bureau International des Expositions) awards . The German and Kazakh received gold and silver in the Theme Interpretation category. The Japanese Expo building also won gold in the Exhibition Design category. Silver and bronze in the architecture category went to Austria and China. The pavilions of Belarus, Germany, Kazakhstan and Luxembourg received one, and the Japanese pavilion even two Honorable Mentions in the various categories.

    With its unusual and sustainable architecture, the Austrian Pavilion attracted a lot of attention. It also won the renowned Global Architecture & Design Award 2021 , the BLT Built Design Award 2021 , the Austrian Green Planet Building Award and the German Design Award 2022 .

    According to the information provided, the Austrian pavilion consumed 70 percent less energy than comparable buildings. The structure and facade of the Kazakh building can be largely recycled. And when the Baden-Württemberg house was built from wood, 200 tons of CO2 could be saved compared to conventional steel structures. According to Nüssli, these three examples are “exemplary for the innovation and sustainability of Nüssli’s pavilion range.