INNOVATION TRAIL
Trailblazing Innovation
Futurebuild is the industry platform for innovation and has again partnered with game-changing brands known as Innovation Partners, to showcase their latest innovative technologies, products and services.
Follow the Innovation Trail across the show floor to see these Innovation Partners. The Trail will give specifiers the opportunity to explore revolutionary products, solutions and materials and meet the leading thinkers behind innovations that will influence the future.
Take a look at the 2024 Innovation Partners below.
Department for Energy Security and net zero
This ground-breaking path to innovation
will culminate at the brand new FutureX
Innovation area sponsored by the
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
and in partnership with Ryder Architecture.
A dedicated Innovation Pavilion will
showcase 40 start-ups and SME’s and their
emerging ideas and technologies, that will
make net zero possible.
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: EDGE
EDGE
EDGE finds sustainable building materials and interior products that are produced by innovative sustainability focused brands and brings these to the attention of the general public and specifiers through a central london showroom and online shop.
EDGE is constantly researching the build and design industry to source like-minded brands that are striving for positive change within the sector, with the core of their ethos and vision being innovation. EDGE nurtures innovation through knowledge development by offering workshops, talks and events to architects, project managers, the general public and students. EDGE inspires those aiming towards the common goal of making a change through one eco-friendly material or product at a time.
Innovation Partner: leviat
leviat
Innovative windpost helps meet stringent thermal specifications
Materials, products and services define how our world is built and is why Leviat is taking a stand for sustainability and for generations to come. By striving to continually innovate, Leviat’s world leading range of connecting, fixing and anchoring products provide the global construction market with ground-breaking engineered solutions that deliver superior energy efficient buildings and help to preserve heritage structures around the globe.
The revolutionary Ancon Thermal Windpost is designed to span vertically between floors, to provide additional lateral support for panels of masonry. It has been specially designed and engineered to minimise thermal bridging in masonry cavity walls and offers up to an impressive 70% reduction in thermal transmission through the span of the windpost.
The Ancon Thermal Windpost, featuring integral non-combustible insulation, guarantees that the BRE level for thermal performance is met in all cases – an assurance otherwise unseen on the windpost market. This game-changing product is helping both contractors and building designers alike to realise the thermal performance aspirations of the detail.
Innovation Partner: SDS Limited
SDS Limited
An innovator in water technology, SDS identifies and delivers engineering solutions that enable global water infrastructure to operate sustainably and with maximum efficiency. In the 20 years since its founding, SDS has evolved to be a UK leader in sustainable drainage systems. Its comprehensive service range includes designing, manufacturing, installing and maintaining water management systems which capture and treat water before controlling its return to the natural water cycle or retaining it for reuse or recycling. Each solution is designed to meet the specific requirements of individual projects whilst delivering the best value in every application SDS is appointed to. Committed to continually developing innovative engineering solutions to meet the increasing threat of water scarcity and forthcoming market requirements, SDS continues to strive for a water-secure future.
At Futurebuild, SDS will showcase a range of its latest innovations in water recycling technology. Each solution facilitates the adoption of rainwater harvesting to address the declining availability of potable water supplies whilst protecting developments from flooding and pollution. SDS will be taking a stand for water security.
SDS Limited is standing for water security at Futurebuild 2023.
Innovation Partner: Ecobuild.brussels
Ecobuild.brussels
Discover the network of Brussels’ sustainability experts at ecobuild.brussels’ stand. Brussels has been building energy-efficient buildings for over a decade and the Passivhaus standard is mandatory since 2015. Our impressive results are not a reason for us to reduce our efforts, quite the contrary. Ambitious goals, such as elevating the energy performance of every existing home and making the whole building sector circular, should allow us to reduce the negative pressures on our environment drastically. Come and meet some of the 250 cluster members that made Brussels one of the frontrunners regarding sustainability and circularity in the built environment and that are making the transition happen today in Brussels. They will gladly help you with your green transition and assist you with innovative techniques and services the the following fields: regenerative architecture & urbanism, futureproof real estate, healthy living environments, circular retrofitting.
Innovation Partner: Cintoo
Cintoo
Cintoo Cloud bridges the gap between Reality Capture and BIM including Digital Twin applications. For AEC and Industry 4.0, Cintoo offers a cloud-based SaaS solution to manage 3D scanned data collected from the built environment.
Cintoo Cloud is agnostic to most scanning and VR offerings and supports static & mobile laser scan data, drone data & 360 panoramic images. Cintoo is browser based allowing experts and non-experts access to high res 3D scans and models, anywhere at any time. Cintoo Cloud uses a point cloud-to-mesh engine with no compromise on scan accuracy and density. Download scans from the cloud and distribute them in mesh or in their source point cloud format. Connect to Autodesk BIM 360, BIM Track and Procore to enable QA/QC and issue tracking workflows to compare as-builds to designs. Leading organizations benefit from Cintoo Cloud’s capabilities which meet the needs of Digital Twin, BIM and construction customers for their construction and asset management needs.
Innovation Partner: LKAB Minerals
LKAB Minerals
LKAB Minerals is an international industrial minerals group with a leading position in a number of product applications. We develop sustainable mineral solutions in partnership with our customers, supplying natural minerals engineered for functionality and usability. LKAB Minerals has sales representation, offices, production units and deposits in 12 countries in Europe, Asia and the US and employs around 400 people. LKAB Minerals is part of the Swedish company LKAB, one of the world’s leading producers of highly upgraded iron ore products, and a major supplier of mineral products for other industrial sectors.
Innovation Partner: 540 World
540 World
540 WORLD is a regenerative circular design consultancy. We help the built environment industry transform products and projects to non-toxic, circular design through safe, circular and sustainably certified, planet- positive material choices.
At Futurebuild 2023, 540 WORLD will showcase the largest UK collaboration of Cradle to Cradle Certified® material innovations to date, including Accoya wood, Graphenstone paint, International Timber – showing the world’s first Accoya timber fender, Honext fibre board, Shaw Contract carpet tiles, Staco Gratings steel and aluminium, Magna Glaskeramik sintered crystal, Wineo’s Purline flooring, Rewind event carpet, together with knowledge-partner, the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute, all on 540 WORLD’s stand H26.
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: Smart Architectural Aluminium
Smart Architectural Aluminium
A great addition to our portfolio, the new AluSpace Interior Screening System has been developed to create light and airy internal environments. The system’s sleek and elegant lines perfectly complement our window and door ranges.
AluSpace can be used to divide or delineate both residential and commercial spaces of any shape and size, while at the same time providing an effective acoustic barrier.
With a choice of hinged single and double doors, as well as pivot and sliding options to accompany the fixed glazed screen, the flexible and versatile system provides almost limitless design possibilities.
Extruded at our UK manufacturing plant in the southwest of England, the system has been designed and developed with ease of fabrication and installation in mind, delivering not only outstanding aesthetics, but also great value.
The elegant system requires only minimal maintenance, with the high-quality design providing many years of assured, reliable performance.
Innovation Partner: myglobalghome
Myglobalhome
MyGlobalHome’s sustainable property platform PropCode, provides the essential ESG data allowing lenders and property owners to measure, report and improve the carbon impact within the built environment in the drive towards net-zero.
The Minimum Energy Efficiency Standard (MEES) requires landlords to ensure that by 2025 all newly rented properties reach an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) rating of C or above. A recent study showed 58% of UK housing stock had an EPC rating of D and below.
PropCode provides the necessary intelligence to certify ESG accreditation on both new and existing buildings, in real-time throughout their lifetime. Certified ESG data allows owners and lenders to streamline the complex ESG data reporting requirements, increasing the flow of impact capital into the built environment.
MyGlobalHome in partnership with Beckhoff are standing for net zero housing at Futurebuild 2023. Come and visit us at stand P46.
Innovation Partner: calmfloor
Calmfloor
FSD Active is an exciting and innovative technology company that is working to bring advanced vibration control technologies to the building industry. Our founders have decades of expertise developed through academic research, commercial R&D and delivery of expert consultancy services in vibration engineering and control.
Our contribution to Futurebuild’s Innovation Trail is CALMFLOOR. First brought to market in 2022, this ingenious unit is destined to have a major impact on how vibrations are dealt with in building projects. Despite being widely available for less than a year, CALMFLOOR systems have already been supplied to customers in the UK, Europe and the US.
CALMFLOOR technology works like noise cancelling headphones, by continuously monitoring floor vibrations and generating forces to cancel them out. This provides world-leading vibration control performance that can be used to fix problematic floors, improve floors for change of use etc. CALMFLOOR reduces material usage in new buildings and in-turn, their carbon footprint. This exceptional performance means that FSD Active becoming an Innovation Partner at Futurebuild 2023 is a logical course of action.
INTERNATIONAL INNOVATION PAVILION
Innovation Partner: ADVANTAGE AUSTRIA
ADVANTAGE AUSTRIA PAVILION
GREENTECH FROM AUSTRIA is promoting climate action worldwide. Austria has a concentration of know-how in the greentech sector that is unparalleled the world over. Countless innovation, technology and market leaders from the fields of renewable energy sources, energy efficiency and environmental technology are based here. With their environmentally friendly and ecologically compatible solutions, companies from Austria are in the vanguard of efforts to enable sustainable use of our resources
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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