NEST at Swissbau 2024
NEST will once again be present at the upcoming edition of Swissbau – with a booth and four interesting events on the topics of circular construction, CO2-negative building materials, joint innovation and "Integrated Project Delivery". Come by and visit us! You will find our booth in the Swissbau Focus in hall 1.0.
STEP2: A new NEST unit is taking shape
Construction is underway, once again, at the research and innovation building NEST. The new unit goes by the name of STEP2. Over the past three years, project partners from various disciplines have developed innovations with high market potential, which will be implemented in a real-world construction project for the very first time.
Together to the recyclable house
Stahlton Bauteile AG and zirkulit AG have formed a strategic partnership – initiated by their collaboration in the latest NEST unit, STEP2. The goal is to jointly realize circular concrete buildings. The two companies demostrate with the novel STEP2 slab what resource saving, innovative solutions they can create when they combine their expertise.
"NEST provides the ideal environment to further develop our innovation"
As part of the HiLo project at NEST, researchers from the Chair of Architecture and Building Systems at ETH Zurich have developed an innovative adaptive solar façade that simultaneously optimizes electricity production and energy savings. Demonstrators of the façade were tested at the HiLo unit. With the founding of the ETH Zurich spin-off "Zurich Soft Robotics", the product is now to be brought to the market under the name "Solskin".
"At NEST, the MESH technology has achieved the breakthrough"
The innovative MESH technology uses robots to produce a 3D grid structure that simultaneously forms the reinforcement and formwork. This enables the production of complex, customized concrete structures. The ETH researchers used their process for the first time on the construction site during the construction of the NEST unit DFAB HOUSE showing They now reached another milestone on the way to market maturity: the founding of the ETH spin-off MESH AG.
"Thanks to our participation in the NEST project, we can now be part of the change"
In the Sprint project, partners from research and industry worked together from the very beginning to build a new NEST unit in the shortest possible time, largely with reused materials. In this interview, Maike Stroetmann from Bouygues Energies & Services talks about the challenges of the project for her and her team and the knowledge they gained in the process.
