“The incorporation of the Internet of things is a necessity for construction companies”
Interview with Mikel Barrado, manager of new technologies and systems applied to Smart Buildings and Cities at TECNALIA.
BIM momentum
By Ignasi Pérez Arnal, CEO BIM Academy and Content Director of the European BIM Summit.
New online campaign for sustainable and energetically-efficient construction
The campaign will also be accompanied by articles in the industry's leading magazines and online portals, and will be presented at trade fairs and exhibitions for construction across Europe.
We have grown in a solid and steady fashion by creating long-term, trust-based relationships
Interview with Jaume Remolà, Marketing and Communications Manager at Mapei Spain.
“I can’t design without having the material in my mind’s eye”
Interview with Francesc Rifé, interior architect.
The absence of scale
By Jaume Prat. Architecture is the art of space. Architecture creates spaces, and these make up its primary raw material. What architecture does in these spaces it creates is, essentially, propose relationships. And it is these spatial relationships that allow the different creations proposed to mobilize and function.
“The CODIC, as a collective involved in BBConstrumat, wanted to do something different this year and play a more active role”
Barcelona Building Construmat is presenting a major new feature at this year's edition: the coordination of the National and International Contract Forum will be undertaken by the Association of Interior Designers and Decorators of Catalonia (CODIC) with the aim of showcasing the work of these professionals. The president of CODIC, Teresa Casas, explains what an interior designer's work entails and tells us more about the Association's involvement in the show.
El CODIC impulsa el Foro Contract Nacional e Internacional de BBConstrumat
El Colegio de Diseñadores de Interiores de Cataluña (CODIC) y Barcelona Building Construmat han hecho una apuesta conjunta para poner en valor el trabajo del diseñador de interiores en la próxima edición del Salón Internacional de la Construcción de Fira de Barcelona que se celebrará del 23 al 26 de mayo en el recinto de Gran Via. Se organizarán también sesiones de networking con profesionales y con empresas de todo el mundo, especialmente del mercado sudamericano.
Displaced centres of gravity
By Jaume Prats. The discussions we tend to have about our cities almost always respond to a reality that imposes (in a literal sense) the issues to be worked on, often without any previous work having been carried out on such issues: urban transformations happen in this way, and if they are not discussed the situation develops without the control of technical planners and politicians, who could do something to direct such transformations, if, that is, they had sufficient awareness of them.
“The combination of raising a building’s height and public grants can facilitate the energy rehabilitation of a building”
Interview with Gerardo Wadel Architect and director of R&D and Quality at ‘La Casa por el Tejado'
“People should be the focal point of every architect’s work”
Interview with Ibon Bilbao and Josep Bohigas, the founders of Arquitectes de Capçalera.
Confiamos el diseño de los espacios comunes a Anna & Eugeni Bach Arquitectes
El estudio de arquitectura afincado en Barcelona dará forma a las Arenas de la próxima edición.
News Back to list “The networks will shape the urban space itself”
Nacho Martín (Manager of IED Innovation Lab and Co-founder of Mi5VR) talks about IOT with Rosalía Simón Navarro (Smart city leader at Telefónica's IoT department).
Towards the kaizen era
By Jaume Prat. At the moment, we search for the information that surrounds us actively. Or rather, we still conduct active searches. The revolution will begin when everything that surrounds us is capable of generating, sending and processing this information passively. And is able to transform itself thanks to this information: welcome to the era of the Internet of Things.
Awareness of the continuum
Por Jaume Prat. La estructura urbana de la ciudad se ha entendido siempre desde la densidad, desde sus espacios llenos. La sensibilidad actual respecto de ella nos ha llevado a considerarla también desde sus vacíos en un viaje de ida y vuelta que nos ha llevado a cuestionarnos la naturaleza de nuestras calles y espacios urbanos.
“Superblocks are the solution for a greener, safer, more sustainable and liveable city”
Interview with Janet Sanz, Deputy Mayor for Environment, Urban Planning and Mobility at Barcelona City Council and councillor for the district of Nou Barris.
“Rather than constructing buildings, we should be building liveability”
Interview with Coque Claret and Dani Calatayud
Configuring the Earth
By Jaume Prat. Technology surrounds us. Literally. When you think about technology and construction, it is not so much about adding gadgets to buildings but rather about what has configured all the elements used in the construction of, or found inside, any of the spaces we inhabit, regardless of whether it uses electricity or electronics.
Sustainability is the only way forward for the future of building
By Bruno Sauer. When I became managing director of GBCe, a journalist asked me what my goals were as the association's top manager. I had no doubts what to answer: to make GBCe one of the leading associations in the sustainable building industry, while at the same time providing a rallying point for all the players who, in their respective areas, are working towards the same goals.