This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Andrew Crimston, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Washbox Global Global building floor space is projected to double by 2060. This is the equivalent of adding an entire New York City to the world, every month, for 40 years. […]As construction accelerates globally, implementing sustainable building practices is critical
February 27, 2024 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Andrew Crimston, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Washbox Global Global building floor space is projected to double by 2060. This is the equivalent of adding an entire New York City to the world, every month, for 40 years. […]Sustainable construction will help those living in the world’s many informal settlements
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This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Greg Munro, Director, Cities Alliance COP28 has convened to address the daunting challenge of climate change, including a thematic focus on the built environment emphasizing the need for a breakthrough in mitigating the impact of the construction sector. Yet […]What is ‘bio-based’ construction and how could it help cities get to net zero?
July 10, 2023 by 1 Comment
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Amanda Sturgeon, CEO, Built by Nature, Robyn van den Heuvel, Program Lead, Climate Smart Forest Economy Program Over half the global population lives in cities and by 2050 this is expected to rise to 70%. All these people […]4 ways AI is revolutionising the construction industry
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This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Meirav Oren, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Versatile Even in today’s modern world, the construction process is mostly fractured and low-tech. It’s nearly indistinguishable from building sites in the 1990s. Site leaders still rely on outdated designs, lagging […]Governments need better data to guide green construction
October 11, 2022 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Tareq Emtairah, Director – Department of Energy, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Rana Ghoneim, Chief of the Energy Systems and Infrastructure Division, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) A growing number of consumer companies have developed “carbon […]4 promising digital technologies for circular construction
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This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Catherine De Wolf, Professor, ETH Zurich To ensure there will be enough housing available for a growing population by 2060, recent studies suggest that we need to construct the equivalent of the building space of New York City […]Trump badly cornered at home by agribusiness and steel consumer lobbies: Trade
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Donald Trump, the real estate mogul and TV reality show star, as President, discovered the hard way that international trade is a much more complicated issue than he could have ever imagined. His poor cognitive abilities and his rampant nature didn’t allow him to realize that international trade is a much more complex issue, than […]Economic sentiment and business climate stagnate in miserable euro area
January 31, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Tantalizingly slow proves the tempo of Eurozone’s economic resumption, if such a thing exists at all. According to the European Commission Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs (ECFIN), “in January the Economic Sentiment Indicator (ESI) increased by 0.5 points in the euro area (to 100.91) and by 0.9 points in the EU (to 104.7)”. […]Towards a seamless internal EU market for industrial goods
January 13, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Twelve years after the ‘internal market’ initiative launched in 1992, with which the European Union erased the technical, fiscal and any other barrier impeding the internal circulation of goods within the boundaries of the club, and still there are impediments to the free internal circulation of industrial products. The European Commission in order to neutralise […]Eurozone: Economic Sentiment Indicator recovering losses
September 28, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The Economic Sentiment Indicator (ESI), despite a mild rise in September by 1.6 points in the euro area is still below its long-term average (100), and oscillates around the levels of the third quarter of 2010. However if it continuous on its present upwards course, it may soon recover losses of three years. In […]EU economy: Between recession and indiscernible growth
August 2, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Triumphant announcements, that the European economy has entered in a new growth path just because unemployment in June has decreased in the EU27 by one decimal point and the Economic Sentiment Indicator (ESI) in July increased by 1.2 points in the euro area cannot stand a rigorous critic. Incidentally unemployment in the euro area was […]Eurozone: Even good statistics mean deeper recession
May 21, 2013 by Leave a Comment
One after the other the main indicators of Eurozone’s economic health are deteriorating slowly but surely. Even positive statistical findings, like the March Euro area surplus in international trade of goods, having reached a record €22.9 billion, if looked more closely reveal a deepening recession of the internal economy, while the rest of the world […]
