‘Green’ Spanish Construction Company Gets EU Award
February 24th, 2012
Noem has won the first European Entrepreneurship Award from the EU for its proposal on “sustainable construction”. Another Spanish company, ParkGreen was also a finalist.
The company Noem received the award in the category “InnoEnergy” for projects focusing on renewable energy. In the same category, the other finalists were a Swedish company and also the Spanish company, ParkGreen, which develops recharge facilities for electric cars based on solar energy.
Noem, short for No Emissions Living, has been chosen to create “the ideal home of the 21st century: mobile, flexible and sustainable,” and for its objective of achieving “a zero-emissions building”, explained the European Commission.
The company specialises in sustainable modular buildings, which are assembled in two days under the turnkey system. (A turnkey project is a type of project that is constructed by a developer and sold or turned over to a buyer in a ready-to-use condition.)
Cinco Dias reported that the other two award categories – climate change and information technology, and communications – have gone to the British design and innovation company, Naked Energy, who specialise in solar technology and energy conservation, and the German company, Trifense, who specialises in protecting computer networks against cyber attacks.
According to the European Commission, the award winners are the “most promising” of those companies created with Community support within the public-private projects of the EIT partnerships in the three aforementioned areas. (EIT : European Institute of Innovation and Technology)
The European Commissioner for Education, Youth and Culture, Androulla Vassilioum, said that the aim of these awards is “to promote the entrepreneurial culture in Europe” and to “inspire the entrepreneurs of tomorrow.”
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