Nitrogen oxides, which are found in automobile exhaust gases, are injurious to health. Ammonia produced by agricultural activity pollutes the soil and damages other ecosystems. The one day meeting on “Nitrogen Compounds in the Atmosphere” organized by Empa offered about 120 experts the opportunity to look in detail at emission sources, transport mechanisms, new metrological techniques and pollution reducing concepts.
«Self» Living Module Makes its Debut at the Swissbau Fair
On 12th January 2010 the «Self» living module was presented publicly for the first time at the Swissbau exhibition in Basel. «Self» is a novel, highly innovative module for working and living which is self-sufficient in energy and water consumption. It includes a bedroom, bathroom, toilet and kitchen and is being used as a test bed and demonstrator for new building concepts and energy technologies by the research institutes Empa and Eawag.
«Empa Innovation Award» presented for the fourth time
17th December 2009
A Power-Packet to Improve the Properties of Concrete
The fourth Empa Innovation prize, with its 5000 Swiss Franks endowment, has been awarded this year to Josef Kaufmann, Joern Luebben und Walter Trindler. Together with fiber specialist Eugen Schwitter of industrial partner fibrotec ag, Mollis, they have developed a novel fiber made of two different synthetic materials which when used with concrete gives the building material additional ductility.
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