Assemble's Granby Workshop releases "extremely vibrant" Encaustic Tiles
Granby Workshop, the social enterprise set up by Turner Prize-winning architecture collective Assemble, has launched a range of brightly coloured tiles. The marble-patterned Encaustic Tiles were launched during London Design Festival. They are produced using the traditional encaustic method, a process where colours and patterns are not surface-applied, but are instead formed from the co....
Durable canvas cloth with embedded solar cells generates 120 watts per square meter
Tents, sun shades, and canopies could generate renewable energy with Norway-based Tarpon Solar‘s photovoltaic canvas. The company’s flexible tarpaulins are topped with bendy solar cells from Swedish company Midsummer. Tarpon Solar laminated solar cells onto a flexible canvas to create a product with numerous potential applications – shade....
This living solar wallpaper harvests energy thanks to photosynthesis
Researchers at Imperial College London just created incredible energy-harvesting wallpaper by inkjet-printing circuitry and cyanobacteria on paper. The cyanobacteria live through the printing process, and then perform photosynthesis to harvest power. The team describes the product as a two-in-one bio-battery and solar panel, and they say an iPad-size....
Saudi Plastics & Petrochemicals 2020
Breaking barriers and exploring endless possibilities in Plastics, Petrochemicals, Print & Pack. The 17thedition of Saudi Plastics & Petrochemicals 2020 held concurrently with Saudi Print & Pack 2020 is being hosted at the RICEC from 13th till 16thJanuary 20....
Oman Design & Build Week 2020 Presents New Business and Investment Opportunities
30 MARCH – 1 APRIL 2020 Hall 3, 4 and 5 Oman Convention & Exhibition Centre, Muscat, Oman TIMING: 3:00 PM TO 10:00 PM Incorporating .....jpg)
With over $224bn-worth of public-private partnership (PPP) projects planned or under way in the Middle East and North Africa
PPP MENA Forum takes place on 11-12 Dec, 2019 in Dubai and isofficially supported by some of the industries leading associations and authorities including the World Association World Association of PPP Units & Professionals (WAPPP), Saudi National Center for Privatization & PPP (NCP), Abu Dhabi Investment Office to name a few. “With over $224bn-worth of public-private partners....