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The importance of water: Adapting to climate change

The global demand for water services is rising rapidly. The demand is driven by several factors, including worldwide population growth, urbanisation, industry and irrigation. In North Western Europe, this demand is furthered by climate changes in the form of heavy rain storms and more stringent EU legislation aimed at managing flood risks and improving water quality.

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Climate change has significantly increased the risk of floodings

Taking waste-to-energy facilities to the next level

The face of waste-to-energy is changing. New engineering and architectural approaches to integrating or interacting with the surrounding environment are leading to a new generation of waste-to-energy facilities. These are based on creative designs and multi-functional purposes. Adding a new dimension to the urban landscape, the modern waste-to-energy facility breaks with all known standards of functionality and design. It aims to enhance efficiency and peacefully co-exist or create an architectural dialogue with its neighbours.

Solar heating: a bright alternative

Energy from the sun is the single largest source of energy on Earth. The daily insolation of light from the sun on our globe is approximately 6,000 times the total amount of energy consumed daily on Earth. Energy, light and heat from the sun have been used by humans since ancient times. Already at the end of the 15th century Leonardo Da Vinci suggested that solar energy could be used at a large scale to heat up water. Today the utilisation of solar energy is much more than just an idea.

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Solar heating represents a great potential

Urbanisation

The world’s attention is on cities, and for a good reason. From a global perspective, cities have become the engines of economic prosperity and development. The city is the place where the great advances occur – intellectual, technological and also organisational. You need urbanisation if you’re going to get development. Urbanisation is a basic precondition for development. But it doesn’t of itself guarantee development.