The first green suburb in Romania, Amber Forest, includes almost 500 green villas and over 200 green apartments, developed on 31 hectares, with only 15% of the built area, with the lowest land use coefficient. The suburb will have complete and high-quality infrastructure- 3 hectares reserved for school, kindergarten, afterschool and sport fields, 5.3 hectares for parks and green areas and also polyclinic, pharmacy, supermarket, restaurant and cafe, co-working space with conference rooms, bakery, market, running and bicycle tracks, as well as direct access to Baneasa forest, the largest forest around Bucharest. With 20 years of experience in the residential field and successfully completing the first green housing community in Romania, Amber Gardens, Alesonor has started the construction of the first green suburb in Romania, an investment estimated at 110 million euros. More than 400 Amber Forest green homes (villas & apartments) have already been sold. Amber Forest homes are the first homes in Romania that meet the NZEB energy standard, imposed by the European Union since 2021. Being energy-efficient buildings, and at the same time quality, sustainable constructions that integrate state-of-the-art technologies and smart homes, Amber Forest homes are accessible through the green mortgage which is specially designed by financial institutions to support the purchase of green, energy-efficient villas and apartments.

www.amberforest.ro

Bright Spaces boosts office marketing & leasing through 3D digital twins designed for today’s market. Through its two products – 3D digital twins and custom space planning, Bright Spaces aims to enhance marketing efforts, increase the number of relevant leasing requests and foster commercial real estate agreements. Real estate and proptech are becoming increasingly intertwined. Technology is guiding multiple processes and we are part of this shift with a solution built to scale globally. In just 3 years, starting out of Bucharest, Romania, Bright Spaces grew from 5 to 30 people, and created an awarded 3D digital twin platform helping landlords from 5 European countries lease more office space, faster. 3D digital twins are virtual representations of physical buildings that are created using 3D modelling and simulation technologies. They provide a digital replica of the building and its surroundings, offering an interactive and visually immersive experience. Through our product, we’re adding a new, optimised layer to the way landlords do business, thus making real estate players our partners in transforming and digitalising the industry. We’ve built a strong team of professionals, with workplace architects and real estate specialists that know the market needs, as well as the specificity of how things are done. With a flat organisation mindset, adaptable and iterative when it comes to the product design & development processes, we already managed to refactor our entire front & back-end solution with no downtime, now having a micro-serviced, agile and highly customizable code architecture, ready to be scaled globally. With our platform, our clients reduced negotiation time by 50%, increased time efficiency by 30% and saved an average of 30K euros on marketing materials per building. Working closely with our clients, capitalising on our mentors’ and partners’ experience, and building a team of real estate professionals helped us truly understand how the biggest asset class in the world works and what it needs in order to get to the next level of evolution. According to a US Proptech & Real Estate Study, “Over 85% of the potential tenants would like to digitally research and virtually visit a space before going to the building in person.” European Landlords spend over 3billion eur / year on marketing & sales. The pandemic emphasized the need for digital solutions and as we are moving away from the crisis, the need remains. Landlords must rethink their approach and digitalize their showcasing and selling – More than 80% of millennials actually want a 3D tour or digital floor plan when they look for their next home. Furthermore, with the launch of the Metaverse, it is important for real estate companies to be prepared for this new environment and bring all their assets into a digital ecosystem (our 3D assets are now becoming Metaverse-ready). Last but not least, sustainability becomes a must in real estate; using a solution like ours significantly contributes to reducing deforestation (through less printed materials) and to fewer CO2 emissions (through less travelling for live tours, i.e.). Plus we are now launching a 3D digital twin feature to map all the ESG characteristics of a building or space. We ask all of our potential clients how they see their commercial processes being conducted 5 years from now and, with no exception, they all see digital twins, automation, data-driven analysis and decisions and interconnected digital systems handling the majority of now manual processes.

www.brightspaces.tech

U•Center, Forte Partner’s office project developed in Tineretului area in Bucharest, transformed a derelict area, a potential hazard for the public health – an old abandoned hospital stood on the land-plot on which the first phase was developed – into a business and social hub that is already bringing added-value and benefits not only for the employees which work and will work there in the future, but also for the local community. Visually and functionally improving the area, the project is located between two parks, Tineretului and Carol, a short distance from Tineretului metro station, a 10- minute walk away from the Timpuri Noi metro station and has easy access to surface public transport (tram, bus). Forte Partners, founded in 2014 and owned by Johny Jabra, Jihad Jabra and Geo Margescu, is one of the most important real estate developers in Romania. The company has so far developed a portfolio of projects worth over 450 million eur, both on the office and residential segments.

www.fortepartners.ro

LagoonCity is the first carbon neutral mixed-use urban reconversion which will use the patented crystallagoons as main amenity. Designed around cutting-edge technologies and innovative solutions, such as heat pumps, heat exchangers and integrated solar panels, Lagoon City will ensure the production of all its utilities in-house. Forty brings into this development a 10.000 sqm unique man-made turquoise lagoon surrounded by 3.200 sqm of white sand beaches, 323 rooms international branded 5-star hotel, class A office and commercial spaces, 401 apartments, 3 restaurants, sky and beach bars, coffee shops, cinema, spa, gym, a beauty clinic, concierge services and even a heliport. The residents of Central District Lagoon City will experience a real paradise, a Holiday Mood all the year, with white beaches and a large crystalline blue lagoon, perfect for swimming and water sports,or just enjoying the idyllic view of the water in theire backyard, in the middle of the city.

Central District Lagoon City is the first urban reconversion to be designed and built according to the highest energy efficiency standards in the northern hemisphere and aim to meet the carbon-neutral, self sustenaible and NzEB environmental standards. The ambition is to further our goals and develop this scalable technology and operational know-how to replicate and introduce on other developments to reduce energy consumption, improve building standards and upgrade practice values and profitability. Central District Lagoon City is the first sacalable carbon neutral and self sustainable mixed use urban reconversion in Eastern Europe and will be developed in Budapest, Prague and Warsow also. We are using the following state-of-the-art technical solutions and innovative materials: Heating systems: – The heating source is provided by geothermal heat pumps – The operation of the pumps is based on the soil-water and lagoon thermal transfer (the solution of pipes embedded in foundation piles or buried construction elements and using the lagoon as a heat exchanger) – Indoor systems based on low temperature operation – Heat pump cascades (realization of thermal nodes – minimum 6) – Use of systems with renewable sources Hot water systems: – Hot water for consumption is produced by means of heat pumps – Use of systems with renewable sources Mechanical ventilation systems: – Systems with heat recuperators Cooling systems: – The cooling source is provided by geothermal heat pumps – cold ceiling technology Electricity: – electrical solar panels over the buildings (On grid operation, with injection into the network) Lagoon: – reduce of 40% of carbon footprint of the tourism and transportation services – generate oxygen because it’s using oxygen infusion to clean the water, oxygen which is going into at athmosphere Innovative materials and technical solutions: – active ceramic technology everywhere ( more about www.active-surface.com)

www.centraldistrict.ro

The development of Palas Iasi, the first mixed-use project developed in Romania, continues via Palas Campus, an urban regeneration project, which revitalizes an underutilized central area of Iasi. The official opening is schedule in April 2023. The project is developed by IULIUS company and is the largest office building in Romania (60,000 sqm leasable area), after an investment of 120 million Euro. The complex is fully rented by 12 large international companies from IT&C, automotive, and banking. Palas Campus represents the largest regional business community and one of the most competitive business hubs in the country. Over 5,000 employees will work here. Palas Campus is a sustainable project, being the only one in Romania to undergo a double green certification process: EDGE by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), and LEED. The project has also contracted the first green loan granted to a Romanian company by IFC, part of the World Bank.

The project will also accommodate:
– outdoor-type coworking spaces
– restaurants, coffee shops, medical hub, fitness center, supermarket, services area
– 650 m long bike lanes
– 500 bike parking spaces
– 6 changing rooms fitted with showers for those who use alternative means of transportation
– 16 charging stations for electric vehicles
– 625 underground parking spaces
– a new arterial road that connects two major central boulevards
– 5 adjacent streets, widened and upgraded
– 4,500 sqm of green areas, various trees and plants

Palas Campus will consolidate the regional business hub shaped downtown in the Palas Iasi complex, which will thus add up to 130,000 sqm of class A offices and 70-plus tenant companies operating in IT, automotive, banking, etc.

www.palascampus.ro

Project proposal: Creating a platform that will act like a bridge between the business environment in Brasov (company representatives) and the high schools in Brasov. This approach will be based on concrete actions and direct presentations highlighting the sustainability efforts applied by companies in Brasov. How does it work? Each company(from the local business environment)will been encouraged to get directly involved in “Saptamana Verde”(Green Week) in high schools, either by uploading to this platform a document presenting internal sustainability strategies that can be used by teachers in class (course base) ,or through physical presence in schools with the support of a presentation (accompanied by practical examples) of how the company implements ecological , sustainable technologies in their day-to-day activity.
The platform can be custom made acording to the precise indications from the County School Inspectorate by our IT specialists.

www.jungheinrich.ro

We offer the most complete gamification platform (Morfin,io) and an app (More).
By using the app, businesses will get more from their employees and their customers and vice versa. Morfin creates a game economy which helps organizations of any kind and their customers, employees or members to transfer value between them in a more efficient and fun way, by gamifying real life processes, tasks, actions, events etc.
Common use cases of Morfin platform and More app:
– mobility, climate change and sustainability
– employee engagement
– customer loyalty
– education, microlearning
– virtual shares
Morfin is not a product, it’s a platform and a product launchpad and everything is customizable to the client’s needs and desires.

www.morfin.io

Philip Morris Romania Wastewater Treatment Plant Project contributes to a clean environment and a better life for the community. Safe water disposal and a clean environment in order to enhance the quality of life in the Otopeni area is the main scope of the project. For a positive impact on the environmental as well as public health, WABAG is offring sustainable and safe water solutions.

www.wabag.com; www.pmi.com

SWAM is a novel product for better environmental sustainability addressing a new water market integrating emerging technologies. SWAM offered an innovative end-to-end solution from Smart Probe to Smart Visualization and by considering ground-breaking aspects: multi-protocol for IoT connectivity, cybersecurity and traceability by design to provide a valuable tool for water management encompassing quality monitoring, safe and security aspects, decision support and cost-efficiency management. SWAM support Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the implementation of EU initiatives (IEP Water) by providing a robust, smart, effective and tailored water management system. SWAM addresses the need to develop the market of digital services for water management stakeholders with those expected impacts: improve the decision making and performance of water infrastructures, enhance interoperability and real-time data accuracy, and reduce costs for water utilities and monitoring. The SWAM route to market is driven by a product sales model and a value-based pricing strategy to maximize market penetration. The main product is an IoT end-to-end solution composed of platform and probe.

www.beiaro.eu/swam

The aim of the STAMINA project is to develop an intelligent decision support platform for pandemic prediction and management. The project will enable national agencies and first responders to anticipate pandemic threats and plan daily efforts to enhance health security. The project’s objectives include the creation of real-time web and social media analytics for detecting potential disease outbreaks, predictive modelling of pandemic outbreaks and early warning systems. The crisis management part will define the roles of key actors during crisis management and include protective and diagnostic devices for first-line detection. Finally, STAMINA developed a common operational picture as the main interface enabling a coordinated response and demonstrate its application within and across EU borders.
The STAMINA project proposes to implement a suite of software tools involving state-of-the-art technologies such as Blockchain and Machine Learning, whose main functionalities include:
– Real-time analysis of websites and social networks in order to monitor public trust and report possible outbreaks.
– Deployment of portable smart diagnostic devices for frontline screening.
– predictive modelling of pandemic outbreaks and their impact, together with decision support for implementation
– implementation of an early warning system
– crisis management defining the roles and actions of key actors during crisis management
– scenario generation for the creation of training scenarios
– definition of a common operational picture as the main interface of the solution enabling a coordinated and timely response
STAMINA is a healthcare-focused project that uses a complex framework and helps take initiatives to maintain control over crisis situations. The project has created an online, secure platform and software based on a suite of Blockchain technologies for authorities, health services and relevant community parties.
On 01.09.2020, BEIA Consult International started the activities included in the H2020 project entitled “Demonstration of intelligent decision support for pandemic crisis prediction and management within and across European borders” (acronym STAMINA).
The project consortium consists of 38 partners (15 EU Member States and 2 non-EU Member States), of which 21 are technical partners, 9 are first responders and 8 are national planners responsible for pandemic crisis management. The project was completed at the end of February 2023.

www.beiaro.eu

The CityZen project will be developed on a 9-hectare land plot, covering a section of the former Griro factory, located on Calea Grivitei, District 1, Bucharest. It will be a mixed use one and will include apartments, office and retail spaces. Most importantly, a significant part of the existing historical buildings and infrastructure will be refurbished and integrated into the future ensemble. This will add architectural and historic value to the new development. Several massive halls will be transformed into open and semi-open public spaces that will use the original walls and roof metallic structure. Through these spaces, greenery will emerge with the help of a thoroughly planned landscaping concept, making the spaces feel alive. A valuable regeneration development starts with what exists and continues with adapting the spaces for the people that will use it. This former important industrial site will be transformed in a new part of city.

www.speedwell.be

Floating photovoltaic park, Dragomirna reservoir, Suceava. With energy storage in hydrogen production through electrolysis.

The Dragomirna reservoir, located on the territory of the UAT Suceava, at a historical minimum level, and practically unused for several years (in a state of disrepair), has a current water level of 81.30 ha, ensures an average surface water flow annually of 0.05 mc/s and has an average depth between 8-9 meters. To save arable land, pastures and areas suitable for industrial areas, in order to produce electricity with photovoltaic panels, the solution is floating photovoltaic systems on unused water bodies. The floating photovoltaic park installed on this body of water has an installed power of 63MW, composed of 3 structures of 21MW each, and has as backup 3 electrolyzers of 20MW each, to produce hydrogen that can be stored in gaseous or liquid form. Basically, water surfaces are covered with photovoltaic modules (islands) with anchored floating structures. The production of hydrogen in gaseous/liquid form is basically a way to store energy, and it replaces the use of classic batteries (accumulators). These floating structures are totally non-polluting, friendly to the aquatic environment, generate water oxygenation and substantially reduce excessive evaporation during the summer. Floating panel structures are 15% more efficient than those installed on land. The cost of the electricity produced is 0.12 EURO/KWh. The initial investment with average costs of 0.25 EURO/Wp for floating structures (with DC connectors and anchoring systems) and an additional 0.28 EURO/Wp for PV equipment (panels, inverters, spare parts) can be recovered in less than 5 years.

www.dannichiforel.ro