This heat reflecting coating is based on a different operating principle as compared to other well-known insulating materials such as polystyrene, mineral wool or fibreglass. As a result, the coating has several advantageous features to provide even heat distribution, improve personal thermal comfort, increase energy savings, reduce moisture conden

Data centres and telecommunications sites require reliable and cost-effective cooling solutions as they need to be cooled 24/7 and to operate optimally at 24-28°C. Typically, these sites are cooled using centralised chiller plant systems. With growing concerns on increasing energy costs by facility owners, there is a need to seek alternative means

This technology offers a novel model-predictive distributed control method and a flexible and cost effective IoT implementation architecture for energy saving in building HVAC systems. It is scalable and real-time optimally responsive to changes in a large building that has more than 500 zones via a patented token-based HVAC scheduling strategy. Th

Typically, buildings with centralised air-conditioning have one or more air filters in each of the air handling units. While air filtration plays an important role to improve indoor air quality, it requires a significant amount of energy consumption to achieve high filtration efficiency, which is the extent to which filters remove airborne particle

About two decades after its first proof-of-concept, 3D concrete printing is on the threshold to become more matured. It provides new opportunities such as higher degree of architectural freedom, lower costs due to a lack of scaffold, less labour intensive manpower and less material required. To achieve these, the print processes need to be more rob

It is highly desirable to keep various types of surfaces clean and easy to maintain to retain their aesthetic appearance and/or functional performance. This can be achieved through self-cleaning coatings, that work by breaking down organic materials and by creating a water-loving surface to allow rain or other water sources to easily wash them off

Photocatalytic effect is a crucial element for achieving self-cleaning surfaces in an indoor environment. Self-cleaning surfaces minimise the need for labour intensive and costly cleaning and maintenance services. However, commercially available self-cleaning solutions are typically in the form of coatings that wear off with time and require re-app

Aerogel is the world's lightest solid material and exhibits the lowest thermal conductivity. Aerogel has more than twice the insulating performance of still air. It also has an open structure that allows vapour to readily diffuse through its matrix. Incorporating aerogel into existing or new insulation materials can displace air and replace it with

This technology presents a 'materials by design' approach to develop tunable coatings utilising functionalised nanoparticles. Coatings that incorporate these nanoparticles can be designed to impart optimised efficiency, optimised functionality, reduced corrosion, retention of appearance, improved fuel efficiency and improved airflow, and are applic

This optical fibre sensor has been developed in cooperation with an industrial collaborator that has an application requiring a sensor capable of measuring humidity in a harsh waste water treatment environment. The sensor employs a Fibre Bragg Grating (FBG) which acts as the basis of the Relative Humidity (RH) sensor design and the humidity sensing

In recent years, rapid development of state-of-the-art equipment in offices, hospitals, shopping malls, food-courts, residential apartments, modern buildings, transportations and other manufacturing industries lead to serious noise pollution, which has significant adverse effects on the personal health, environment, productivity, reliability of ele

Existing electric air purifiers applied to closed, indoor environments have to be closely monitored and controlled due to potential hazardous ozone emissions. Alternatively filter based purifiers have an issue of power losses owing to the raised pressure drop of filters as well as a difficulty in filter management. Existing filter-based air purifie

The technology provider has developed an innovative process for the chemical-free disinfection of open cooling water from climate control systems. The technology aims to replace conventional water disinfection with the addition of chemicals through an green technology using open electrolysis with ceramic electrodes. This new technology can be appli

Our technology features a three state optical modulation between transparent, color and mirror appearance of a given surface, primarily on glass substrates. The switching between the three states can be triggered by a small voltage application. The versatile electrochromic device allows user to enjoy outdoor view in transparent state, blocking of s

Buildings consume an enormous portion of energy in the world. And in a building, the heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) system accounts for more than half of the total energy consumption. Property management practitioners tend to choose conservative setpoints for indoor temperatures, aiming to allow a maximum number of occupants to en

We have developed a hardware cum software IoT platform that will make it easier and cheaperto collect data or send alerts/messages from standard machines, instruments, sensors and meters installed in remote places - over low power wide area wireless networks (LPWAN) such as Sigfox, LoRa &NB-IoT. Our first products arenovel plug & play communication

This patented technology, first of its' kind, is a revolutionary approach to eliminating scale, preventing corrosion and bio-fouling in cooling water systems. Through proprietary electrochemistry, anti-bacteria technology and software control, it removes water hardness, silica and control bacteria growth in cooling systems without the need for haza

An unmanned aerial vehicle that stably moves along walls under circumstances including regions inaccessible by people such as safety inspection of massive structures and high-rise buildings, access to a fire scene to complete a given mission. 1. A building inspection robot that uses a conventional vacuum lifter or independent infrastructure has a l