A Model for Sustainable Design?

Erwin Burth, Autodesk business development manager for clean technology, discusses the advantages of digital prototyping for realising advancements in the clean tech sector – and helping businesses bring creative visions to life in order to secure vital investment Clean tech is a bold and burgeoning field. From alternative fuels, to energy efficiency, water treatment, transportation, [...]

Rapid Re-Invention

Cleantech specialist Green Structures has used 3D modeling combined with conceptual building performance analysis and digital prototyping techniques to support the development of new carbon and energy-saving innovations With over 40 percent of the UK’s green house gas emissions attributed to the built environment, in recent years, far greater emphasis has been put on retrofitting [...]

Tomorrow’s World: Evolving Clean Tech Innovation with Digital Prototyping

Erwin Burth, Autodesk business development manager for clean technology, discusses the advantages of digital prototyping in realising clean tech advancements. Thanks to the significant investment that clean energy attracts, the global clean technology race has, in the last few years, continued to gain momentum. Even the unfolding European financial crisis and a slump in clean [...]

“A Place in the Sun” – How Clean Tech Partner Program Helped Cleaner Air Solutions Edge out the Competition

Founded in 2004 and based in the UK, Cleaner Air Solutions is a leader in the specification, design, supply and installation of photovoltaic (PV) systems. These are systems which use one or more solar panels to convert sunlight into electricity. Faced with growing competition and the need to develop custom made installations to meet rising [...]

10 Finalists of the Intesa Sanpoalo European Cleantech Challenge

The European Cleantech Challenge is part of Intesa Sanpaolo Start-Up Initiative a comprehensive program aimed at start-ups looking for concrete business opportunities. Every few months, a rigorous selection and training process leads the best start-ups to high-profile, technology-specific events called Arena Meetings, where they can pitch to international investors and corporations. Skipso has partnered with Intesa providing [...]

Autodesk to Provide European Cleantech Challenge Finalists with €120K worth of Free Software

The European Cleantech Challenge team is excited to announce a partnership with Autodesk, a world leader in Digital Prototyping. As part of the partnership, Autodesk will provide the 12 European Cleantech Challenge finalists with up to €120,000 worth of its industry-leading software applications for free. The Autodesk software is designed to support Cleantech companies in optimizing their product development process, allowing them to significantly reduce the number of costly physical prototypes.

“Greener Driving in the City” – Why Digital Design Can be the Catalyst

Few European countries are more focused on green issues than Sweden. The country ranks highly in international tables measuring environmental health, water quality and low air pollution and national emissions are low, whether calculated per person or per unit of GDP, compared with most other developed countries. This is largely due to the use of bio-fuels and of [...]

How Autodesk Helps Novacem Create Carbon Negative Cement

Cement holds the building and construction industry together. Globally, the cement market is worth around £100bn and the industry supplies 2.9bn tonnes of cement to support global economic development every year. This is set to grow to 5bn tonnes a year by 2030, mainly due to rapidly increasing development needs in India and China. However, [...]

Why Recycling has Become a PET Topic in the Netherlands – Echotect Uses Autodesk Design Software to Drive Innovative Plastics Recycling

Benelux is among the most heavily industrialised and densely populated regions in the Western world and has a highly developed waste management and recycling sector. The Netherlands, in particular, is widely known as an environmentally conscious nation and has a thriving recycling industry. In the past, however, plastics have been among the least recycled materials [...]

“Tide of the Future” – How Autodesk Design Software Helps IT Power Harness Energy from the Waves

This is the first of a series of posts explaining how Cleantech companies around the world are using Autodesk Design Software applications to develop their groundbreaking products. IT Power’s Bristol-based Marine Group, a division of IT Power Ltd, is a 12-person strong marine energy team, concentrating on delivering engineering services enabling the development of wave [...]