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BuildWind has been selected for the second cohort of the ACCEND Scale Up Accelerator, a Horizon Europe programme that helps European deep tech companies grow across borders. The programme will accelerate the commercial development of CLARA, our environmental digital twinning technology for cities. ACCEND is funded by the European Union through the ACCEND project, grant agreement 101193504.

BrusAir is live! Get real-time, high-resolution air quality data for every street in the City of Brussels and the Northern Quarter. Our platform combines Computational Fluid Dynamics wind simulations, up-to-date traffic data, and Brussels Environment monitoring-station readings to deliver hour-by-hour BelAQI maps.

BuildWind is one of the winners of the Smart City 2024 call for projects “Data-Driven Smart City” in the City of Brussels. BuildWind will develop BrusAir, an online tool for rapid and accurate assessment of air quality in Brussels.

Horizon Magazine, the EU's research and innovation magazine, features the MODELAIR project and BrusAir: how AI-powered digital twins give cities a street-level picture of air pollution, with Alessandro Gambale on where pollutants concentrate in Brussels. Read the full article on Horizon Magazine!

BuildWind aims to create a detailed, predictive model of air pollution in Brussels, addressing the limitations of current monitoring systems by combining real-time data with numerical simulations and AI. Read the full article on The Brussels Times!

BuildWind on BX1 talking about wind energy assessment for urban wind turbines. Watch the full interview!

Our recent interview with BBC News Arabic on urban wind energy is available online. Click here to watch the full interview! Thanks for having us!

BuildWind on Architecture Today: wind studies for architectural design and urban planning. Read the full article!

Thank you very much La Libre for the interview about our project Wind Energy Brussels. In collaboration with our partners at Université catholique de Louvain and with support from Innoviris Brussels. Read the full article here!

BuildWind has been invited to speak at the “Digital Twins for Sustainability” Interdisciplinary Workshop in Brussels. We will talk about “Digital twins for liveable cities: bringing high-resolution urban microclimate digital twins to citizens and cities“.

BuildWind is giving a presentation of BrusAir, our platform for high resolution air quality, at the Clean Air in Our Cities Inspiration Session in Amsterdam.

Meet us at the EUropean Sustainable Energy Week 2025. BuildWind, together with partners AIT Austrian Institute of Technology and University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), is presenting the PLENTY-LIFE project at stand 25.

Meet us at IN-VENTO XVIII conference! We are giving a presentation titled “A combined CFD and ML based approach to perform a feasibility study of wind energy harvesting in the vicinity of the built environment using medium-sized wind turbines“.

BuildWind is giving a presentation on wind-induced noise on building façades at the Performance-Based Façade Design Seminar and Workshop in Venice.

BuildWind pitch in Oslo at Brussels Innovation Breakfast, part of the Belgian economic mission to Norway. With hub.brussels and Innoviris. #BEmissionNOR

BuildWind will be at Build & Connect Summit in Strasbourg together with other entrepreneurs in collaboration with the cluster ecobuild.brussels

Visit us at #EUSEW2024, the European Sustainable Energy Week 2024, Brussels and online. We’ll be at stand C28 on Thursday June 13th together with our partners in PLENTY-Life project, funded by CINEA – European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency.

BuildWind will attend VIVATECH 2024, Europe’s biggest startup and tech event. Follow us on LinkedIn to discover more!

BuildWind will be in Paris for the SANTEXPO 2024, the annual event for health and medical-social sectors. Meet us to discover our expertise in designing safer and energy efficient healthcare buildings!

BuildWind will be in Cannes for the MIPIM real estate event!

BuildWind attending the ERCOFTAC workshop on Machine Learning for Fluid Dynamics in Paris. We’re presenting our expertise in Machine Learning applied on wind comfort and safety with the work titled “A CFD-based surrogate modeling approach for pedestrian wind comfort assessment“.

BuildWind will join the London mission 2024 organized by Agoria and Hub.Brussels. If you are an architectural, engineering firm, urban planner based or active in London, contact us to discuss air quality, wind comfort, and wind energy for a better built environment. Read our interview about the mission!

Visit us at Arab Health 2024, stand Z2.A37, and discover our numerical modelling and simulation of hospital ventilation systems for indoor air quality assessment and airborne infection prevention.

BuildWind will be in Atlanta and Miami as Belgian participant of the AGORIA mission “The Future of Digital” to learn from key innovators and visionaries about such topics as Web3, AI, augmented/virtual reality, IoT, quantum computing, cybersecurity, and blockchain.

BuildWind attending MEDICA2023. We’re presenting our simulation technology and expertise for safer and more sustainable hospitals and healthcare buildings. Visit us at Hall 15, booth B22!

BuildWind will be in Fundão (Portugal) for the annual PLENTY-LIFE meeting. Follow us on LinkedIn to discover more!

Meet us at ICWE 2023! We’re giving two presentations:
– CFD-based investigation of air quality in urban areas: a case study in Brussels, Belgium.
– A data-driven surrogate model framework based on CFD simulations to accelerate wind energy yield assessment.

Meet us at the Brussels Urban Summit 2023,  Hub.Brussels stand, to learn about our ongoing projects and create new collaborations for a better built environment.

We are ready for you at CREtech London 2023!

BuildWind will attend EGU23 and present the work “A Computational Fluid Dynamics based framework to assess the wind energy potential of an urban landscape: a case study in Brussels”.

BuildWind will attend JAS Belgique 2023. On the 28th Prof. Benoît Misset, head of IC department at CHU de Liège, will present “Prévention des infections aux soins intensifs : le COVID-19 dans un service réel”, result of our collaborative project on IAQ and airborne infection prevention in hospital buildings where our ASAPP simulation software has been extensively used.

We are presenting our expertise in urban wind energy and wind comfort and safety at the FutureBuild 2023 event in London, along with other Belgian companies active in sustainable technology.

BuildWind, along with other Belgian member and partners of ecobuild.brussels, will be in Paris for two days of meetings around the theme of wood and circularity.

BuildWind will be in Vienna for the PLENTY-LIFE kick-off meeting. BuildWind is contributing to this project co-funded by the European Union with their simulation technology and expertise in urban wind energy and urban heat island effect.

BuildWind, along with other Belgian companies active in sustainable technology, will be heading to Copenhagen on a mission organised by the Belgian Industry cluster Agoria to discover the city’s impressive tech scene.

BuildWind will attend the Tech4SmartCities 2022 event in Brussels dedicated to sustainable and smart technologies for cities. Check out our profile!

The IC and Microbiology Department at CHU de Liège, in collaboration with TERRA Research Center, the Research Unit in Epidemiology and Risk Analysis and the Department of Pathology at University of Liège are presenting the ability of ASAPP simulation software developed by BuildWind to predict the location of infectious droplets and aerosols in IC rooms at SRFL 2022.

BuildWind is presenting how ASAPP simulation software can simultaneously predict air quality, airborne pathogen infection risk and energy efficiency in hospital rooms at European Healthcare Design 2022.

The Department of Intensive Care at CHU de Liège in collaboration with BuildWind is presenting a work based on ASAPP at ECCMID 2022.

Sharing our experience in joining and building a consortium for #horizoneurope projects during the panel session of the workshop organized by NCP Brussels your contact for Horizon Europe.

We are presenting our work on urban environmental simulation at EuroHPC Summit Week | PraceDays2022.

– China International Import & Export Expo in Shanghai. Remote participation.

CELTIC Online Proposers Day (online event).

– Meet us at Global PropTech Speed Dating!

– BuildWind will attend E2Tech4SmartCities 2020 (virtual) event dedicated to sustainable buildings and energy efficiency for Smart Cities at the occasion of the EU Sustainable Energy Week.

– BuildWind attending business meetings at B2WORTH to present applications of numerical simulation with CFD to fashion and design sectors.

BuildWind will be in Cannes for the MIPIM real estate event => cancelled.

– BuildWind attending @CelticNext Proposers Day in Madrid.