EcoCocon: prefabricated straw wall panels, now made by robots in Slovakia
EcoCocon takes a waste product from wheat farms, compresses it into a timber frame and ships it as ready-made walls that meet Passive House standards.
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Stora Enso CLT: Europe's biggest cross-laminated timber maker hits 1 million m³, then hits the brakes
Stora Enso helped turn cross-laminated timber from an Austrian niche into a mainstream way to build offices, schools and apartment blocks.
Strawcture Eco AgriBioPanel: Indian crop stubble pressed into building boards, now sold in Europe
Every autumn, farmers in north India burn millions of tonnes of rice straw, and Delhi chokes. Strawcture Eco buys that straw and presses it into wall and ceiling boards.
VELUX vacuum glazing: a roof window with triple-glazing insulation in an 11.5 mm pane
VELUX has squeezed the insulation of a triple-glazed window into a pane less than half as thick, by replacing the gas between two sheets of glass with a vacuum.
Viessmann Vitocal 250-A: the propane heat pump built for old radiators, in Germany's new heating rules era
Viessmann's Vitocal 250-A is designed to replace a gas or oil boiler in an existing house without changing the radiators, using propane as a natural refrigerant.