We are happy to announce that aerogel-it received a special mention award for particularly innovative solutions as part of the Vonovia Construction Contest!
We are extremely grateful and honored to have been considered next to the winners Kimm GmbH & Co. KG and STRAMENTEC GmbH as well the other special mention award to Bton Group. Thank you very much to the Vonovia team and congratulations to everyone!
Vonovia is a huge player in the European real estate market and owns more than 540.000 apartments. The Vonovia team was particularly impressed by the options our new aerogel materials offer regarding energetic renovation of the existing building stock – a challenge they are facing.
And energetic renovation is urgently needed. Around 40% of EU energy is used for buildings, but 75% of the buildings in the EU have poor energy performance (see here). Energetically more efficient buildings require less energy to heat and cool, which reduces CO2 emissions and helps to reduce the size and cost of heating and cooling equipment such as heat pumps. Less energy used means less energy that needs to be provided in the first place.
Aerogels are attractive as space-saving option especially for interior insulation where the available space is highly limited. However, current aerogel materials are costly and have high CO2 footprints. aerogel-it is developing aerogel materials and aerogel production technology to lower cost and CO2 footprint such as our aerogels from the wood side-stream lignin or from cellulose. We also market SLENTITE, still the best-performing interior insulation board available.
And we do not stop there. Together with our partners, we are working on ready-to-use solutions based on our new aerogel materials to tackle the challenges the Construction industry faces.
Photos: Vonovia, Dirk Weinrich
