Anyone who owns property bears responsibility. Not only for the preservation of value, but also for the sustainable use of resources and structures. The Real Estate Symposium 2025 organised by the Swiss Association of the Property Industry (SVIT) impressively demonstrated how strategic management

The construction sector is facing a historic turning point. While traditional materials such as cement and steel cause enormous emissions, low-carbon and carbon-free alternatives are opening up new avenues for climate-friendly construction. Start-ups, technologies and forward-looking construction

Pistor's geothermal storage system saves the wholesaler 100,000 liters of heating oil per year. This prevents the release of 330 tons of CO2, as much as 200 direct flights from Zurich to Tokyo. The construction costs of 1 million Swiss francs are amortized through the elimination of heating oil

Hans Kohler AG and Suter Inox are joining forces. The two companies claim to have developed the most sustainable worktops, sinks and basins for kitchens by using green stainless steel. It is said to reduce CO2 emissions by up to 92

The Swiss Power-to-X Collaborative Innovation Network (SPIN) is now working together with the Coalition for Green Energy & Storage (CGES) of ETH, EPFL, PSI and Empa. The aim is to create an interactive search tool that facilitates access to information on Power-to-X

Cowa Thermal Solutions has won the Clean Energy & Storage category at the Start Up Energy Transition (SET) Award 2025. The jury praised the fact that Cowa's compact thermal storage systems with thermodynamic materials are five times smaller than water-based

The cooperative Elektra Baselland (EBL) has set up a new online service for property owners. They can use wärmecheck.ch to check whether it is possible to connect their property to an EBL district heating network. The aim is to expand district heating

A long-term Swiss study shows that it is not just the number of trees in cities that can increase our life expectancy, but above all their intelligent arrangement. Particularly in densely built-up neighbourhoods, well-connected tree areas act as a protective shield against disease-related deaths,

The Lausanne-based AI start-up inait and Microsoft are joining forces. Together, they want to develop a new generation of intelligent systems with the aim of fundamentally transforming the world of finance and the robotics industry. At the centre is an AI platform that is based on the way the human

Conspark GmbH has published a fact sheet on the life cycle assessment of construction products. It compares the different rules in the EU and Switzerland. As they also produce different results, the company, which specialises in the circular economy, advocates

Digitalisation and artificial intelligence (AI) are neither a curse nor a blessing in the construction industry, but a necessity. The 110 industry experts who took part in this year's seminar organised by the Institute of Building Technology and Energy at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and

Researchers at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) have developed an automated system that controls the production, feed-in and consumption of renewable energy in a building and saves CO2. It was tested at NEST in

Energy supplier ewb and the municipality of Köniz want to use surplus water from the Schönau pumping station to generate renewable heat for 5,000 households. To this end, they are building the Bern-Wabern heating

AEW Energie AG is investing over CHF 8 million in the new Augst heating network. This is to be operated with 100 per cent renewable heat. Waste heat from the Augst hydropower plant and water from the Rhine will be

Construction of the workplace of the future is set to begin in Winterthur this year. The Green Spin project has now found its second anchor tenant in the form of Stiftung Sprachheilschulen. The expected move-in date is summer

The energy supply of the future requires more than just the expansion of renewable energies. Smart technologies must ensure that energy is used efficiently and integrated into the power grid. Empa researchers have developed an algorithm that optimises energy management in buildings, reduces CO2

The University of Zurich (UZH) is establishing the "UZH Centre for the Future of Personal Mobility". The centre researches central questions of personal mobility and is being realised with a donation of 12.7 million Swiss francs from the Emil Frey

Empa has inaugurated a new high-tech laboratory that researches quantum effects in carbon nanostructures. Using state-of-the-art scanning tunnelling microscopy and microwave technology, the laboratory is intended to pave the way for sustainable quantum technologies, from sensors to quantum

The real estate industry faces the challenge of reducing its material intensity and the associated grey energy. The reuse of building components offers a promising solution that has already been successfully implemented in numerous

K51 places data centres in locations where the waste heat can be used sensibly for heating. In collaboration with BKW, the Thurgau-based start-up is optimising the electricity costs for computing power. The data centres are also used in the balancing energy

Thurgauer Kantonalbank has installed a new photovoltaic system on the roof of its branch in Arbon. At 500 square metres, it is the largest in the bank's operations and is expected to supply 105,000 kilowatt hours of electricity per

The Berner Kantonalbank (BEKB) supports sustainable renovation with mortgages at preferential conditions. To this end, BEKB has teamed up with the Bernese online platform myky. The mortgages are based on the myky renovation

The municipality of Thalwil and Elektrizitätswerke des Kantons Zürich (EKZ) have agreed to work together on district heating. Wärme Thalwil AG was founded for this

The term "descaling" is not protected and many products on the market only soften tap water insufficiently or not at all. A powerful and forward-looking look at the challenges and solutions in the field of water

The demand for electricity storage systems in private households is increasing rapidly. But what advantages do battery storage systems really offer and when does the investment pay off? A powerful and forward-looking look at developments in the property and site development

With the new digital platform MatcH2, Axpo is bringing together the players in the hydrogen market and promoting decarbonisation in Switzerland and Europe. A powerful step towards a sustainable energy

Neustark has realised a system for the permanent storage of CO2 in demolition concrete at the joint venture RECULAR of the Oettinger Group and peterbeton. It can store 10 kilograms of CO2 per tonne of demolition concrete. The plant is the third of its kind from Neustark in

Energie 360° has put the Tiefenbrunnen energy network into operation. In the first stage, 80 properties in the Riesbach neighbourhood of Zurich will be heated using water from Lake Zurich. This figure is set to rise to around 400 properties in the final

The FRZ Zurich Airport Region founded a Sustainability Advisory Board on 6 February. Its purpose is to support companies, cities and municipalities in the region with the introduction of sustainable business

IWB has put the Frick heating network into operation. The demand for sustainably produced heat is high. Extensions are already being