On Wednesday, March 21st, 2018, Walas BlueWorxx launched the first meet-up in Germany. The meet-up was held at our World of Walas office in Hamburg, and focused on smart cities. Companies discussed the combination of products and solutions to support a sustainable digital transition in cities.
On February 14th – 15th 2018, World of Walas will be at Buildex Vancouver 2018 as part of our innovation pavilion to present our expertise in sustainable urban development and innovative building trends. Buildex Vancouver is Western Canada’s largest tradeshow and conference for the Construction, Renovation, Architecture, Interior Design and Property Management industries.
World of Walas is proud to host a diverse community of sustainable and innovative business at our Innovation Pavilion at Buildex 2018. Buildex Vancouver is Western Canada’s largest tradeshow and conference for the Construction, Renovation, Architecture, Interior Design and Property Management industries. With over 600 exhibits, and more than 80 educational seminars, Buildex attracts over 14,000 attendees annually.
For eager attendees of the conference and tradeshow, we will provide some of the best in expertise and products that Europe has to offer. The pavilion covers a variety of key trends in the urban development industry. These trends are sustainable materials, sustainable designs and digitization of cities. As World of Walas, we are thrilled to be the point of access for advancing the adopting of these new building trends of sustainable material, sustainable design and the digitization of cities.
The Dutch newspaper Nieuwe Oogst is a widely read newspaper for farmers and gardeners with stories about the agricultural sector. In the edition of January 13, an interview was published with our colleague from Walas, Zilal. She is working with Farm2Future on various systems, including zero-tillage. In the article they discuss conservative agriculture, zero-tillage and the workshops that Zilal gives about this.
On February 14th and 15th. World of Walas hosted the European Pavillion at Buildex 2018. Partners from Europe joined us to showcase their innovations at one Western Canada’s largest industry event in sustainable development.
On December 13th 2017, World of Walas Canada was invited to visit the SOS Children’s Village in British Columbia, Canada. SOS Children’s Village directly serves over 500,000 children and 168,000 young adults in 135 different countries with educational, health, and emergency response programs reaching over a million additional individuals. They are the largest non-denominational, non-political child development charity in the world and well known in Europe, Africa, and Asia. They are becoming more well known in Canada.
The “midwinterhoorn” is a traditional wooden instrument which resembles a horn. The instrument is well known in the eastern parts of the Netherlands. At Spinnerij Oosterveld, the “Enschedese Midwinterhoornblazers” worked together with soccer team FC Twente to make a promotial video with warm Christmas vibes.
Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without a nice dinner. Therefore Sheltersuit, Appeltjes van Oranje and Spinnerij Oosterveld organized a Syrian Christmas dinner. The Syrian refugees and volunteers from Sheltersuit worked hard on the tastiest dishes. The proceeds go to the Sheltersuit project on Lesvos. A great Christmas dinner, the Walas way!
“The goal is to make all of you saviors,” says Bas Westerweel. Tenants of the Spinnerij and members of the Walas team attend a session hosted by Bas Westerweel to teach people how to help victims of cardiac arrests.
World of Walas is expanding to Germany! With a bright, new space in historic HafenCity, Walas has a new home for Walas Concepts Germany, and offers a public space for Hamburg to meet and discuss sustainability in their community.
Tenant Buro Blink organized “Blink’s Daydream” at Spinnerij Oosterveld, for a fun meeting with inspiring and heartwarming stories.
Did you know Spinnerij Oosterveld uses solar panels to generate energy for the building and the tenants? The generated energy can be used immediately and a surplus can be returned to the electricity network. A valuable addition to the property!
During TOM’s Business Blow-Out Event, various prizes are awarded to entrepreneurs in Twente. Tenant Axign won the price for Best Start-up of 2017, a great achievement!