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  • Umwelt Arena presents new exhibition on micro-apartments

    Umwelt Arena presents new exhibition on micro-apartments

    According to an announcement, the Umwelt Arena in Spreitenbach is presenting a pioneering living concept with the new exhibition “Micro-apartment – 50 m2 for 4 people”. Sustainable, affordable living is one of the major challenges of our time, it continues. With a concrete example, the Umwelt Arena shows that intelligent spatial planning, multifunctionality and energy-efficient construction are not visions of the future, but reality.

    Visitors learn how the project is created, which solutions are implemented and what impact micro-apartments have on sustainability, it continues. The show flat demonstrates how space for a family of up to four people can be created on around 50 square metres without any loss of comfort. Through space planning and multifunctional furnishing, the living room can be transformed into a bedroom at the touch of a button and the children’s room can become an office or playroom if required.

    The 1:1 scale model flat can be viewed during short guided tours. They take place twice a day at 2 pm and 3.30 pm.

    Guided tours for companies, clubs and schools can be booked on request, according to the Umwelt Arena. The topic of micro-living can be chosen as the focus of the two guided tours Sustainability in Everyday Life and Building and Modernising.

  • Umwelt Arena presents solar sunshades

    Umwelt Arena presents solar sunshades

    The Umwelt Arena is presenting two new photovoltaic sunshades in front of its restaurant in Spreitenbach. According to a press release, the parasols not only offer protection from the sun’s rays during the day, but can also generate electricity to charge electronic devices such as smartphones, laptops or tablets thanks to their extendable solar panels.

    Two Solaris 1000W models from Streetopia, a manufacturer of mobile photovoltaic solutions from Teufen, will be presented in Spreitenbach. They could be intended for use in restaurants or company buildings. The smaller Solaris 600W model could be used in the home garden and reduce the energy requirements of a two-person household by 30 to 50 percent, according to the press release. Both models are reportedly easy to install and work according to the plug-and-play principle.

  • Trade fair for the timber industry takes place in the Umwelt Arena

    Trade fair for the timber industry takes place in the Umwelt Arena

    Impuls, the trade fair for the wood industry, will take place from 22 to 25 August in the Umwelt Arena in Spreitenbach. According to the announcement, Impuls is being organised for the third time by Kuratle & Jaecker from Leibstadt AG. Together with 32 producers from Switzerland and abroad, Kuratle & Jaecker will transform the 2000 square metre arena area into an industry meeting place for four days. The organiser will also be represented with an exhibition stand.

    Players in the wood industry will have the opportunity to find out about innovations, trends and product applications in the fields of flooring and parquet, doors and door technology, decorative interior fittings, building envelopes and timber construction in a very short time, the press release continues. In addition, there will be specialist presentations, special shows and training courses at the networking platform.

    The programme includes the main topic “Building with wood: from the floor to the roof” as well as innovative application techniques, products for a good indoor climate, system solutions and practical knowledge transfer and acoustic solutions. A range of products made from Swiss wood will also be on show. And, according to the programme, it is also about fire protection solutions, timber construction and industrial prefabrication as well as logistics, transport and storage. The digitalisation of the wood industry will also be a topic.

    Trade fair organiser Kuratle & Jaecker serves the woodworking industry throughout Switzerland from twelve locations with a balanced range of products and own brands for structural timber construction and decorative interior finishing, according to the company’s website. It also acts as an agent for other producers at home and abroad.

  • Umwelt Arena shows new exhibition on insulating materials

    Umwelt Arena shows new exhibition on insulating materials

    The Swiss Environmental Arena is opening a new special exhibition. According to a message on Facebook, it is about the recycling of old insulating materials in the construction industry. Instead of old insulating materials ending up in the dumpster and then in the landfill during renovations and demolitions, they are taken back and processed again, according to Facebook on the subject. The Flumroc company based in Flums is showing how this is done in the new exhibition in the so-called Recycling City in the Umwelt Arena. Flumroc is a “pioneer in the field of insulation recycling”, according to the press release.

    On its website , Flumroc advocates the sustainable use of insulating materials. “Rockwool becomes rockwool”. it says there. Flumroc stone wool is 100 percent recyclable. This “closed cycle” should be maintained as far as possible. The company therefore appeals not to simply throw away construction site cuttings and construction site waste made from Flumroc stone wool during demolition, renovation or conversion work. “We’re happy to take them back in the bags or containers provided and recycle them,” says the company.

    The new exhibition provides information about the procedure for reprocessing.

  • Umwelt Arena presents "Building 2050 Urdorf".

    Umwelt Arena presents "Building 2050 Urdorf".

    The Swiss environmental arena has presented its latest future energy policy project, “ Building 2050 ”. According to the press release , the pioneering project in Urdorf shows how, thanks to the use of the latest building technology, residential developments can already become a CO2-neutral power plant in which tenants can live within their own energy budgets without electricity and heating costs.

    The Umwelt Arena is presenting all of these innovations in the new exhibition “Bauen 2050” in Spreitbach from mid-July 2022 with a construction documentary and interactive elements relating to modern construction.

    The pilot project in Urdorf is referred to as a “power house”. The building by René Schmid Architekten AG Zurich shows that surplus solar energy from the summer can be used to produce renewable, non-fossil gas for the winter using photovoltaic systems on the roof and facade. There is also a wind-solar small power station. The facade and roof insulation protects the house against cold and heat. In midsummer, excess heat can be withdrawn from the apartments and used to heat the water. The rest is stored in the ground via the geothermal probes.

    The excess electricity from the summer is used to produce hydrogen in a power-to-gas plant. It is temporarily stored in the existing gas network for the winter.

    The house in Urdorf shows the residents their daily current consumption level in order to control their personal energy budget. There are sun blinds that can be controlled depending on the weather, energy-efficient, networked household appliances of the highest efficiency class and showers with heat recovery as well as CO2-controlled comfort ventilation. Even when using the lift, the braking energy produces electricity.

  • Umwelt Arena implements lighthouse project in Urdorf

    Umwelt Arena implements lighthouse project in Urdorf

    The development of the Umwelt Arena in Männedorf received the Watt d'or 2021 from the Federal Office of Energy. The two multi-family houses in Männedorf can cover their energy needs with photovoltaic modules on the facades and roofs and two wind turbines. This means that your residents are exempt from electricity and heating costs up to an upper limit.

    The Umwelt Arena is now following up with a new lighthouse project. In Urdorf, three more energy self-sufficient residential buildings are to be realized, is explained in an article on energeia + . The blog of the Federal Office of Energy will accompany the implementation of the project in a loose series of articles. In the first article, Walter Schmid, investor and initiator of the Umwelt Arena, explains the planned development.

    As in Männedorf, the buildings in Urdorf will also produce their own energy, explains Schmid. “Photovoltaic systems are installed on the facade, on the flat roof or the entrance to the underground car park.” Excess energy produced in summer is to be fed into the gas network and withdrawn in winter. In order to convert the gas back into electricity and heat, a hybrid box will be installed in the basement of the building. The tenants of the residential buildings are to be exempted from electricity and heating costs up to an upper limit.

    In the brochure for the project, the development in Urdorf is referred to as a “national future project”. Because the project should show "that it is worthwhile to build energy-efficiently and win everyone in the process," says the initiator Schmid. Männedorf has already shown that the idea works, that the larger project in Urdorf should "make it even cheaper, more economical". Because this is the only way to attract imitators.