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  • Competition launched to promote circular solutions in building construction

    Competition launched to promote circular solutions in building construction

    The sixth call for entries for the Circular Building Industry Innovation Booster(CBI Booster) invites you to submit radical ideas for circular product, service or systemic innovations in interior design by 19 September 2024. The focus is on installation solutions in buildings such as stairs, floorboards, kitchens, sanitary facilities, lighting, doors and lifts. However, we are also looking for services that facilitate the circularity of built-in building elements and systemic innovations that encourage the construction industry to implement circular business models for interior design solutions.

    The call for proposals also aims to promote collaboration with partners in Ticino. The teams are therefore called upon to include at least one partner from the canton in their ranks.

    The leading house of the CBI Booster is the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. For this sixth call, the CBI Booster is collaborating with the Institute for Corporate Management at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland and the Humanitas Living LAB powered by Blanco Architecture & Design. The proposed solutions are to be implemented in the housing project, which combines sustainability and adaptability and tests new forms of living.

    In addition to methodological and technical support, seven teams will receive direct funding of CHF 20,000 to develop their project. In addition, they must each raise 2,000 francs themselves. The award ceremony will take place on 10 October 2024.

  • New training centre to be built of wood

    New training centre to be built of wood

    The general planner and architect team consisting of Chur-based atelier tsu GmbH and Zurich-based studiospazio/bersa inc. has won the open project competition of the Canton of Graubünden for the replacement of the Civil Defence Training Centre(ZAC) in Meiersboda on the municipal territory of Churwalden, the cantonal registry office informs in a statement. The winning project, ZicZAC, envisages a sustainable three-storey wooden building. ZicZAC was unanimously selected by the jury from a total of six proposals submitted.

    “This project fulfils all the desired requirements to a very high degree and convinces with its holistic and future-oriented approach to sustainable building,” Cantonal Councillor Carmelia Maissen, jury chairwoman and head of the Cantonal Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Mobility, is quoted as saying in the statement. The jury was particularly impressed by the clear basic structure of the building, the natural building materials and simple construction principles, the low-tech building services concept and the high flexibility in the use of the premises. Already in the project tender, emphasis was placed on recyclability, optimised microclimate, solar power production and energy storage.

    Once the project has been selected, the corresponding building bill is to be discussed by the Grand Council in April 2024. If approved, it will be up to the Graubünden electorate in September next year. Construction could begin in spring 2025.