Which is the most visited city worldwide in 2016?
The multinational financial services corporation Mastercard published for the seventh year in a row the Global Destination Cities Index. In total there are ...
Why infrastructure needs to become resilient
In the United States there is a consensus in both parties that the infrastructure of cities needs to be improved. A comprehensive approach is still missing ...
Bio-mass machine helps to reduce radioactive material in Fukushima
The German company Entrade Energiesysteme AG is going to provide its so called E4 plants to generate power from contaminated timber in Fukushima. The mass ...
Upcycling of waste from the construction industry
StoneCycling, an Amsterdam-based startup, made it its business to produce interior equipment that is based on waste material of the building sector. By ...
How to make use of the big data opportunities
While most companies have recognized the big opportunities of big data, the real challenge lies within finding opportunities to efficiently process and ...
Deutschlands Ladeinfrastruktur für E-Autos lückenhaft
Deutschland hinkt im Vergleich mit anderen europäischen Staaten wie Norwegen oder den Niederlanden beim Netzausbau von Ladesäulen für Elektroautos ...
Sweden is going entirely for renewables
Sweden aims to run on renewable energy by 2040. Last year Sweden drew 57 percent of its energy from renewables such as hydropower and wind. The country has ...
The resilience of the built environment
How old and abandoned buildings can be revitalized, is exemplified with these eight projects. The designers and architects found unique ways to introduce ...
Generating energy by footsteps
At the University of Wisconsin-Madison a team of engineers developed a flooring material capable of generating electricity by a footstep. The manufactured ...
A helmet that makes Playmobil fans cycle
At the moment still a prototype, the Playmobil hair helmet could bring way more people on their bikes to ride to work, once released. Designed by two DDB ...
