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The recipients of the first Holcim Foundation research grants were announced at the Holcim Forum for Sustainable Construction in Shanghai on April 19, 2007. They received research grants amounting to a total of USD 200,000, and a certificate handed over by Rolf Soiron, Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Holcim Foundation.
View presentations on the scope of research to be conducted within each project by following the links below:
Odair Barbosa de Moraes,
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
 Environmental quality evaluation in informal urban settlements using fuzzy logics (PDF, 810KB)
Lei Pang,
Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Integrated computer-aided technology for ecological evaluation in urban design for historic areas (PDF, 1.45MB)
Rozana Montiel Saucedo and Arturo Ortiz Struck,
Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City
Sustainability in poverty areas: Chimalhuacan informal squatter settlements in the context of the local and the global discourses (no presentation available)
Deane Simpson,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Switzerland
Gerontological urbanism: emerging forms of urbanism for the elderly demographic (PDF, 5.62MB)
Jörg Spangenberg,
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Sustainable and climatically adapted urban transformation: the impact of urban vegetation on energy efficiency and quality of life in the South American metropolis of São Paulo (PDF, 2.94MB) | | |  | Workshops on sustainable construction in the municipality of Chimulhuacán have been followed by the successful construction of 17 new houses.
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