Covid-19 rapid deployment test centre
Two of the most pressing needs worldwide in the coronavirus pandemic are for more hospital beds and testing centres. No country in the world has enough hospital beds or intensive-care unit (ICU) beds for a pandemic. We need structures that can be quickly and easily assembled, are inexpensive and meet technical requirements. Architects have always […]
Instant emergency shelter
The idea was to design a shelter that will be built in phases so that it can satisfy the need for instant emergency shelter and grow up with time to provide a temporary habitat for a society. I chose bamboo as a primary material for partition and shell which is easily available in Southeast Asia. […]
Burn green to breathe clean – BB CLEAN
In the Alpine Region (AR) there is a need to support a better use of local resources and an increase of energy self-sufficiency while reducing impacts on climate and the environment (EUSALP, AG9). Biomass is a local and affordable RES and its combustion avoids fossil CO2atmospheric emissions. For these reasons biomass use is strategic in […]
New Challenges on innonatives: National TOP-RUNNER-INITIATIVE
Neue / New Challenges: Nationale TOP-RUNNER-INITIATIVE (for english version please scroll down) innonatives startet drei neue Challenges für die Nationale Top Runner Initiative NTRI, eine Initiative des deutschen Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Energie (BMWi). Entwickle Ideen zur effizienten Nutzung von Energie im Haushalt und Steigerung der Energieeffizienz. Worum geht es? Haushaltsgeräte bieten ein enormes Einsparpotenzial […]
Biodiversity conservation and business
The biological diversity makes our lives livable in the planet trough an array of ecological processes which provide us vital products and services, such as foods and materials that contributes to the economy. Although, factors such as habitat destruction, biological invasion and climate change have been taken numerous species to extinction. The lasting natural areas […]
#sonomacountystrong — Written by Maxwell James Hedayati
Written by Maxwell James Hedayati / Photo: Peter DaSilva, Special To The Chronicle To representatives of the College Board, Let me start off by introducing myself, and put a person behind the email address. My name is Maxwell Hedayati, and I am a student at Maria Carrillo high school in Santa Rosa California. I have an immense […]
Project VIDARR
The Vidarr project is an integrated system that aims at minimizing the costs and timing of having high-quality temporary housing in case of disasters, earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, wars … The accommodations you get are of the highest quality, high flexibility and ease of use and handling When needed, the technical part in a very short […]
Additive Manufacturing – Rapid Operator Support System
The “Additive Manufacturing – Rapid Support System” (AM-RS2) is a turn-key, fully integrated/automated, user friendly, deployable system made of a “Fused Deposition Modelling” (FDM) unit, a 3D Scanner unit, a “Human Machine Interface” (HMI) unit and a library of pre-loaded “Pilot Geometries”. The AM-RS2 is intended for delocalised manufacturing, in-theatre next to the point of […]
Blue Freedom – Providing reliable first aid electricity from hydropower
Electrical power supply is among the first critically important services in disaster areas. Especially natural disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes or floodings lead to a destruction of the installed power grid and portable electricity becomes indispensable. One innovative solution is Blue Freedom Portable, a lightweight hydropower generator with 5W output capacity. With a weight of […]
Transition of Shelters – Portable Emergency Shelter
Migratation of refugess are indeed a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a Society involving widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses and impacts, which exceeds the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own resources. It affects both physically and mentally. It also causes health and safety […]
