INNOVATION TRAIL
Showcasing Innovation
Net-zero pioneer Futurebuild has partnered with innovative brands to showcase their latest products at Futurebuild. The partnerships have been formed will be brought to life through the renowned Innovation Trail.
This trail will give leading specifiers and decision-makers the opportunity to explore revolutionary products, solutions and materials and meet the leading thinkers behind these innovations.
See the latest products from our Innovation Partners along the Innovation Trail in March.
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
Innovation Partner: AICO
AICO
Aico is the European market leader in home life safety, pioneering new technologies and offering high quality alarms. HomeLINK are a multi-award-winning high-tech software team in Aico that develop cutting edge home integration and analytic technologies to address the needs of social landlords and their residents.
The new HomeLINK Environmental Sensors from Aico, designed to create better maintained, healthier, more energy efficient homes, are placed throughout the home to monitor temperature, humidity and Carbon Dioxide (CO2). Insights from the new Environmental Sensors on indoor environmental conditions allow for preventative measures and proactive maintenance, creating safer and healthier homes for people and the planet.
Innovation Partner: ACO TECHNOLOGIES
ACO TECHNOLOGIES PLC
ACO is a world leader in the design, development and implementation of sustainable surface water management systems.
For over 50 years ACO has pioneered unique solutions that satisfy the need for high performance, environmental excellence, optimal return on investment and long operational life across a vast range of applications…
Innovation Partner: INTU YOUR HOME (AET)
INTU YOUR HOME - AET
INTU Your Home reimagines everyday items, adding improved safety, sustainability and advanced technology to create the essential products for modern homes. The company is passionate about innovation, design and development to create better, smarter and safer products.
Its INTU Evolution hot water taps, for example, are designed with safety, sustainability and speed in mind. The tap systems are not pressurised, which means quicker installation, less damage to the kitchen and a safer option. INTU hot water taps offer many benefits for the home and environment, it’s the company’s goal to ensure the product is in every home across the UK, reduce energy, water and plastic consumption while improve safety at the same time.
Innovation Partner: BOSCH THERMOTECHNOLOGY
Bosch Thermotechnology
Worcester Bosch is the UK’s leader in domestic boilers, while also manufacturing a range of renewable technologies, intelligent heating controls, heat pumps and hot water cylinders.
At Futurebuild 2022 Worcester Bosch will showcase its award-winning hydrogen-ready boiler prototype. This boiler is very similar to natural gas predecessors — it is constructed and functions in a similar way. The boiler can run on natural gas until the day that hydrogen becomes available, saving costs all round. This also means that homeowners can future proof their homes for when any switch over to hydrogen occurs.
Innovation Partner: C-PROBE GROUP
C-Probe Group
C-Probe Systems produces smart, low carbon alkali-activated cementitious materials (AACMs) for the repair, protection, and monitoring of structural corrosion in the built environment. It develops sustainable corrosion management systems that reduce the need for structural maintenance by pre-empting the development of problems caused by corrosion, chemical attack, fire and environmental damage.
C-Probe’s latest innovation, which will be revealed at Futurebuild 2022, is the LoCem® Modular Anode Unit (MAU). As opposed to restoring existing infrastructure, the MAU is used at the initial construction stage to provide long-term resilience and control over corrosion.
Innovation Partner: Huawei technologies
Huawei Technologies
Huawei plans to achieve its goal of carbon neutrality in the energy industry using three strategies — replacing fossil fuels with clean energy, electrification of energy consumption and enabling digital transformation of the energy industry. Huawei’s LUNA2000 Smart String Energy Storage System is an energy storage solution for utility-scale solar power plants, industrial and commercial campuses and PV and energy storage scenarios.
The system features an innovative high-voltage DC architecture allows the energy storage system to comply with multiple platforms, a built-in energy optimiser that increases charge and discharge capacity by ten per cent and a grid-tied, off-grid switching mode that provides emergency back up power in three seconds.
Innovation Partner: iNTERNORM WINDOWS UK
Internorm Windows UK
Internorm products stand for highest quality and individual solutions for self-builds, extensions, as well as renovation and large commercial projects. We are proud to be Europe’s leading, award-winning window brand.
Internorm’s pioneering spirit and passion from the early years is as strong today as it was on the very first day 90 years ago. The company produced Austria’s first uPVC window as early as 1966 and since then has evolved and developed many new and innovative technical solutions and designs – always with one goal in mind: to make every home smarter, more energy-efficient and secure.
Innovation Partner: JAMES LATHAM PUBLIC LIMITED
James Latham
James Latham is one of the UK’s largest independent trade distributors of timber, panels and decorative surfaces. The company consistently pushes the boundaries of materials selection, from its origins in timber products, panels and doors to the modern day, making James Latham one of the sectors’ most recognised suppliers of cutting-edge materials technologies, including decorative laminates, veneers, thermoplastics and acrylics.
Timber is one of the oldest construction materials. As such, it is often seen as traditional and sometimes uninspiring. However, as companies aim to achieve zero carbon construction, timber is now important in reducing construction’s carbon footprint.
Innovation Partner: KENSA CONTRACTING
Kensa Contracting
Kensa Contracting is an award-winning specialist delivery partner and contractor for communal heating with district ground source heat pumps.
According to ‘The Future Homes Standard’, which will come into effect in 2025, all new homes must be equipped with low-carbon heating and be zero carbon ready by 2025. Kensa’s networked Shoebox ground source heat pump solution will inspire the change needed to propel the construction industry to net zero. 1.5 per cent of the home projects completed each year are new, so ensuring that all new homes are low carbon, we can address emissions in over 25 per cent of UK homes in the next three decades.
Innovation Partner: Microgeneration Certification scheme (MCS)
Microgeneration Certification scheme (MCS)
MCS is a standards organisation that certifies low-carbon products and installations used to domestically produce electricity and heat from renewable sources. MCS sets the standards that installers of domestic renewables must follow to ensure that vital technology works for the people who invest in it.
Futurebuild visitors will see how MCS is shaping the way that low-carbon domestic renewables heat and power our homes. By upholding quality and compliance, it sets the standard for home-grown energy, giving consumers confidence in the vast array of technology available to them.
Innovation Partner: PROCORE UK LTD
Procore UK
Procore is a leading provider of construction management software that connects information and teams on one powerful and easy-to-use platform purpose built for construction, by construction.
Procore believes that construction’s openness to innovation could lead to a smarter future for the industry. Sustainability is also a key contributing factor — capturing data digitally enables construction businesses to look at how they can reduce their carbon footprint and encourage best practice.
Innovation Partner: VIESSMANN
Viessmann
Viessmann is the leading provider of climate solutions for all living spaces. The ‘Integrated Viessmann Solutions Offering’ enables users to connect products and systems seamlessly via digital platforms and services for climate (heating, cooling, air quality) and refrigeration solutions.
All solutions are based on renewable energy and maximum efficiency. All activities of the family company, founded in 1917, are based on its purpose.
Innovation Partner: 540 World
540 World
540 WORLD helps authentic companies to create low carbon buildings via three main pathways — knowledge sharing, assisting in material swapping and material innovation.
At Futurebuild 2022, 540 WORLD will showcase a variety of Cradle to Cradle Certified® materials including Accoya, a Cradle to Cradle gold certified wood produced from a fast-growing pine. In addition to being more sustainable to produce than traditional hardwood, Accoya is anti-fungus and anti-mildew and does not require sanding or coating, which can be a drain on resources. Another innovation 540 WORLD will showcase is Graphenstone paint, which absorbs carbon dioxide and does not offgas any toxins.
Innovation Partner: MPA THE CONCRETE CENTRE
MPA The Concrete Centre
The Concrete Centre provides material, design and construction guidance. Our aim is to enable all those involved in the design, use and performance of concrete to realise the potential of the material. They provide published guidance, seminars, courses, online resources and industry research to the design community.
Innovation Partner: Soprema Group
SOPREMA GROUP
SOPREMA is a global leader in waterproofing and insulation offering high quality products and technical expertise. With solutions for flat roofs, green roofs, walls, floors and much more through our range of waterproofing products including bituminous, liquid , single ply and hot melt, as well as a range of insulation solutions including XPS, Pavatextil P recycled cotton insulation, Pavatex high-performance natural wood fibre insulation and the Tecsound range of acoustic insulation.
INTERNATIONAL INNOVATION PAVILIONS
Innovation Partner: ADVANTAGE AUSTRIA
ADVANTAGE AUSTRIA PAVILION
Meet solution providers looking for business partners on the Austrian Pavilion. Discover innovative technologies in the following fields:
– Passivhaus, energy efficiency and heating systems
– heat networks
– AI materials optimisation
– structural timber
– drywalling
Innovation Partner: AIMMIP
AIMMP
At the Future Build Innovation Pavilion, AIMMP will showcase a group of companies – Achilles 1905 (Limalha), Cicomol, Covema, CWFloors, Fibereco, Magna Natura (The Cork Magicians), Nogueira & Fernandes, Ribadão, Listimber and X8 Solutions Group – where products from sustainable forests will be presented, valuing wood and its derivatives as quality raw materials and irreplaceable in the circular economy in the production of floors, coatings, wooden structures, among others.
Innovation Partner: REGIONE PUGLIA
Regione Puglia
Apulia is an emerging region in the southeast of Italy, steeped in history but as innovative as the Silicon Valley, where the endless beauty of the sea and rural landscapes have turned it into a top tourist destination and where the high quality of life represents an asset for local businesses.
It is an authentic and modern, forward looking region, which offers many advantages to potential investors and represents the ideal location for smart companies looking to strengthen their presence in Europe, at the heart of the Mediterranean.
EPISODE TWO
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In this episode, you can listen to Maria Smith, Director of Sustainability & Physics at Buro Happold in conversation with Martin Hurn and Dr Oliver Jones. Maria talks through the ten key principles from the latest publication from the RIBA and Architects Declare and shares their opinion on why the built environment has the capability to accelerate our delivery of a net zero future and what we need to do next.
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Tune in to the FutureX series of podcasts and hear Martin Hurn and Dr Oliver Jones in conversation with the brightest minds, the disruptive thinkers and most exciting innovators.
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