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  • Scandens presents digital redevelopment planning

    Scandens presents digital redevelopment planning

    With its innovative software technology,Scandens wants to revolutionise digital renovation and investment planning for the decarbonisation of buildings. According to a media release, the Scandens web app provides users – homeowners, energy advisors, financial institutions, public authorities as well as architecture and construction firms – with an analysis of the current climate compatibility of the property with just a few clicks. It is intended to show over 400 different renovation strategies and concrete measures with which the current CO2 footprint and energy consumption of the building can be reduced.

    The spin-off of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich(ETH) was founded in 2021 and supported by the Migros Pioneer Fund. The machine learning algorithms were developed at ETH and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, according to the founders. The software reportedly combines them with the latest energy modelling techniques for digital twins and official planning standards.

    It updates the entire planning process, from data collection to feasibility testing and component and building design to economic calculation and CO2 balancing, including grey emissions. According to Scandens co-founder Dominik Bucher, the pilot customers have confirmed in daily use that “with our solution, time savings of 80 percent are possible. Our product will have a lasting impact on the construction and real estate industry.”

  • IWB tests alpine solar plant on Melchsee-Frutt

    IWB tests alpine solar plant on Melchsee-Frutt

    IWB has concluded a cooperation agreement with the Kerns Alpine Cooperative outside the stone bridge. According to a press release, the agreement provides for the feasibility of a solar plant on the Melchsee-Frutt plateau to be examined. In addition to the technical details, the effects of a photovoltaic system on the existing management and the environment will also be analysed.

    The good accessibility, the high altitude and the snow favour the production of electricity, especially in winter, according to the statement. The plant would be connected to the Obwalden electricity company.

    The two contract partners have already begun talks with the municipality of Kerns and the canton of Obwalden. Other stakeholders and environmental organisations are also to be included in the talks.

    Markus Ettlin-Niederberger, president of the Kerns Alpine Cooperative, welcomes the expansion of the project. “We can make an active contribution to a renewable and secure energy supply and even increase local added value,” he is quoted as saying in the press release. Pascal Semlitsch also sees great potential in the project. “Melchsee-Frutt offers very good conditions for an alpine solar plant,” the head of investments at IWB is quoted as saying. “We have the goal that more renewable, domestic solar power can be produced very locally and in an environmentally friendly way.”

    IWB has already built an alpine solar plant at the Muttsee dam in the canton of Glarus together with Axpo.