All projects from the School of Life Sciences and Facility Management
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Campus Challenge Sustainability Exchange
It is undisputed that every human being must make his or her contribution if global warming is to be limited to less than 1.5 degrees. However, neither research nor practice is clear about which behavioral patterns are best for each individual. It is also unclear how people are ultimately to get involved. The ...
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DeMo. Urban Ecosystems Design and Modelling: A spatial based approach to integrate habitats in constructed ecosystems
The project aims at developing a method bridging design and ecology to integrate semi-natural habitats in the built environment (constructed ecosystems). We seek to implement this method by using computational tools able to manage biotic and abiotic complex datasets in the form of 2D and 3D maps to generate ...
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Density and Quality - potentials of outdoor spaces
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Ecological Engineering Living Lab
In Ecological Engineering, the processes in nature serve as a model for developing new technologies. As in a natural ecosystem, where nutrients and water circulate, the researchers at ZHAW are developing closed-loop systems that function according to the same principle. The aim is to save resources and minimize the ...
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Food Waste Indicators and Data Monitoring Concept
The Sustainable Development Goals require halving food waste by 2030. The goal of this project is to develop indicators and a data monitoring concept for food waste in Switzerland. The goal is to measure food waste amounts annd environmental impacts periodically in order to evaluate if the reduction target is being ...
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Inspectorate for composting and fermentation plants
The Environmental Biotechnology Unit is a member of the Inspectorate Commission for Composting and Fermentation Plants and carries out plant inspections on a regular basis.
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Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA)
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Preventing capsular contracture by coating of silicone implants with bioglass
Due to its inertness, low toxicity and anti-adhesive properties, silicone is one of the most frequently used materials for medical implants. Amongst silicone materials typically transplanted to patients one finds silicone implants used for breast augmentations in plastic surgery. According to the “International ...
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Resource-Efficient and Sustainable Cultivation Equipment for MicroAlgae Manufacture
With focus on high-value-added applications (Food, Pharma, Cosmetics), this project aims at establishing resource-efficient reactor technology for the cultivation of microalgae. Photobioreactors, in current close-system design, are not fully optimized with regard to energy usage. Several other aspects, such as light ...
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Social and socio-spatial qualities in the Kartoni-Quarters in Glarus
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Sun-Oxygen-System: Energy efficient fishpond aeration enhancing integrated small-scale farming in Cambodia
In this project a solarpowered system, called Sun-Oxygen-System, for the aeration of aquaculture pond systems, will be developed and tested. The system should improve the usage of naturally occuring dissolved oxygen in aquaculture pond systems and through that, allow the operation of off-grid systems. Accompanied by ...
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Virtual Summer School - tackling climate change through global learning
Global challenges require international cooperation at eye level and innovative solution strategies. The ZHAW's virtual summer school "Tackling Climate Change through Global Learning" with partners in Brazil and India aims to train students to become global change makers. Global learning, intercultural communication ...
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Mikafi - Roast Intelligence
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Structural Stable Soils for Zurich
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PiaBreed: Machine Learning for automated ovulation and birth monitoring in horses
The project comprises the tasks of a comprehensive data collection (Piavita/ University of Bern) and the development of a mobile, non-invasive system (Piavita/ZHAW) for veterinarians and breeders. The goal is to collect important vital data and to develop a new algorithm scheme with which - ovulation in mares can ...
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Mission B - Development of Research Lab on Roof
As part of the "Mission B" project of the Swiss Radio and Television SRF, an innovative research laboratory is to be installed on a roof area in Leutschenbach in Zurich, where different types of substrate (ricoter, wool, vegetable charcoal, etc.) and vegetation methods are to be studied. This experimental area will ...
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Power yields of an alpine photovoltaic pilot plant
With the photovoltaic test facility in Davos-Totalp, the influence of the alpine region (altitude, snow cover of the surrounding area, snow cover of the modules, etc.) on the photovoltaic yield in the mountains is being investigated. During the several years of operation, different configurations (module technology, ...
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Using data analysis techniques for the interpretation of stable isotope labelling incorporation from real-time PTR-ToF-MS data
Proton transfer reaction-time of flight-mass spectrometry (PTR-ToF-MS) technology gives real time high resolution data of processes and reactions. While trends can be determined with the data the mechanistic pathway of the reactions cannot be conclusively determined. The most powerful way of elucidating these ...
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Analysis of Lipid Oxydation in Food
Oxidation aldehydes and ketones. Setup fast GC PTRMS.
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Atomo Coffee - Coffee Without the Bean
Developing coffee without a bean.
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Operational optimization of a composting plant in Costa Rica
As part of a bilateral cooperation between partners from Costa Rica and Switzerland, a concept for the technical and operational optimisation of the existing composting of organic waste is being developed for the municipality of Perez Zeledon, including the provision of training materials and operating protocols as ...
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Record natural, cultural and landscape values in the international natural park Rätikon
In this project special landscape values in the region Prättigau (GR) were collected, evaluated and documented. It is a part of an international project to develope the first trans-bordery natural parcregion Rätikon with regions in Switzerland, Austria and Lichtenstein.
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CO2 neutral insect production for PetFood
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Agrobiodiversity Summer School
Agrobiodiversity includes the diversity of crops and livestock species and varieties, the diversity of production and food supply systems, different agricultural practices and intensities and the biodiversity that indirectly supports agriculture through provisioning ecosystem services. Agrobiodiversity is therefore ...
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Sensor for a wearable device for early detection of symptoms of possible neurodegenerative diseases
We propose to develop and implement a sensor for a wearable device with the functionality of early detection of symptoms associated with the following neurodegenerative diseases: Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and Parkinson's Disease (PD). Specifically, we focus on the detection and quantification of symptoms associated ...