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Building Better Fire Protection with Smart Technology
The destructive relationship between fire and buildings is as old as the history of buildings themselves. Fire protection has been a key reason for the development of new materials, construction methods, and safety protocols since the earliest buildings and each major fire acts as a trigger for innovation and regulation. The response to the Great Fire […]
When a Billionaire Who Wants to be an Architect Works with an Architect Who Wants to be a Billionaire!
“I think this building is more futuristic than the latest Blade Runner movie,” said London’s Mayor Sadiq Khan at the ribbon cutting ceremony for Bloomberg LP’s new European Headquarters in the British capital. After 30 years in London the media agency is bringing staff from its four campuses into one huge and futuristic office building, […]
We Should Democratise Smart City Planning
A smart city project in the UK has crowdsourced ideas in order to better plan the urban redevelopment. As part of a new smart city report, thoughts on the project were welcomed from hundreds of experts across six different domains through a series of 37 workshops at the Hypercatevent in London this year. Hypercat enlisted some of […]
Canary Wharf’s Smart City Cognicity Challenge Announces Winners
The second phase of Canary Wharf’s Cognicity Challenge in London has produced two new winners of the £50,000 prize. Innovate smart city technology firms Demand Logic and SEaB Energy will implement their technology in the docklands business district. The Cognicity Challenge is the starting point for the Cognicity initiative, which aims to encourage participating companies […]
Canary Wharf Advances Smart Cities Accelerator Initiative
London’s iconic Canary Wharf, and Docklands business district, is taking a progressive step towards “smart city” status as two streams of its pioneering Cognicity Challenge enter the short-listing phase. The Cognicity Challenge is the starting point for the Cognicity initiative, which aims to encourage participating companies to respond to the current and future elements of […]