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Holcim Projects – reporting on progress of sustainable construction  From dream to reality: “Next Generation” (student category) winner, the “Coastal Fog-Harvesting Tower” in Chile aims to secure water supply for communities and agriculture - a prototype is under construction and further research will follow.
The new Holcim Projects section of the website reports on the progress of sustainable construction projects associated with the Holcim Foundation. The updates explain how projects including prize winners in the Holcim Awards competitions – have evolved from inspired ideas into tangible flagships of sustainable construction.
The initial selection of project updates includes the opening of the “New Monte Rosa Alpine Hut” in Switzerland which began as a two-year design project for students at the ETH Zurich and captured the imagination of some 11,000 overnight visitors in its inaugural season. Further Award winning projects featured include the “California Academy of Sciences” in San Francisco, USA which won a Holcim Award in 2005 and has since become the world’s largest Platinum-level LEED certified public building – and the “Ecological Boulevard” which has been fully constructed in a new suburb of Madrid and was also exhibited in the Spanish Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo.
Project updates will be regularly added at www.holcimprojects.org and can also be followed on the Holcim Awards Facebook page and via Twitter.
 Holcim Projects
Architect Harry Gugger joins Board of the Holcim Foundation
Newly-appointed member of the Management Board of the Holcim Foundation Harry Gugger is Professor of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Architect Harry Gugger has joined the Management Board of the Holcim Foundation. Harry Gugger is Full Professor of Architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) and Principal of Harry Gugger Studio based in Basel, Switzerland. Previously, he was partner-in-charge at internationally renowned architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron in Basel.
Harry Gugger has been a member of the Technical Competence Center (TCC) of the Holcim Foundation at ETH Zurich for more than a year; was Head of the Holcim Awards jury for Europe in 2008, and shall be a member of the jury for North America in 2011. Harry Gugger replaces Marc Angélil, Dean of Architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), who has been a member of the both the Management Board and the TCC of the Holcim Foundation since their inception 2003.
Profile - Harry Gugger
November 10, 2010 – Zurich/Switzerland
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