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BuildEXT: Hungarian company among top 10 BIM providers in Europe

BuildEXT Ltd. is the only company in the region to be included in Construction Tech Review magazine’s prestigious „TOP 10 BIM Solutions Providers in Europe 2022” industry ranking. The leading global construction industry magazine’s 2022 list places BuildEXT among leading building information modeling giants such as German ArchiCAD developer Nemetschek AG, BIM Facility, and Irish Pentagon Solutions.

Following a complex, multi-stage rating process – involving readers, their own market researchers and an industry panel – Construction Tech Review’s editorial staff published a list of the continent’s top 10 BIM solution providers for the third time. BuildEXT Ltd, one of the leading digital building information modeling (BIM) design companies in the domestic market, is the only corporation in the region to make the list.

“It is a great honor and strong positive feedback that an international professional magazine has ranked us as the only company from the region in the European TOP 10. BuildEXT is truly at the forefront of putting digitalization into practice in the construction industry by developing and applying BIM design and construction coordination workflows. We aim to radically transform construction processes with our knowledge and new tools for digitalization. This will save our customers time, energy, and budget. We will create a more sustainable built environment with lower CO2 emissions for our children,” said Csaba Livják, the company’s founding owner and managing director.

The full interview can be read online in Construction Tech Review Europe and in its print magazine in May 2022.

Download the press release in Hungarian or read it on Magyar Építők. BuildEXT has had a busy year, which we have summarised and illustrated here.

20.06.2022

100% recyclable KeelClipTM cardboard packaging replaces shrink foil on Coca-Cola aluminium can multipacks – Domestic plastic usage is reducing by 230 tons per year due to the new development

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Budapest, 23 March 2022 – Coca-Cola Hungary has reached another milestone on the road to a World Without Waste: the company is replacing the previous shrink foil used for its multipacks of 4 and 6 aluminium cans, with the 100 percent recyclable and innovative KeelClip^TM cardboard packaging technology.

Instead of shrink foil, KeelClip™ technology uses a strong cardboard lid to hold the aluminium cans sold in 4 and 6-packs together. The cover is made of recyclable cardboard that the consumers can use conveniently. With the investment of more than 800 million forints (2,3 million euros), the company will reduce its plastic usage in Hungary by nearly 230 tons per year.

„We have improved the packaging of our soft drinks many times in the past few years to enable us to introduce more sustainable solutions. Thanks to our packaging innovations, the amount of plastic needed to make our PET bottles has been reduced by 20 percent in recent years, since 2020 we are using nearly 170 tons less aluminium per year for of our aluminium cans, and we have also reduced the amount of our secondary packaging materials. Developing innovative packaging solutions is also an important part of our strategy: we have recently introduced our paper bottle prototype and the KeelClip^TM technology, which is now being introduced, is also a part of this initiative. With the introduction of KeelClip^TM we are taking another important step closer to a World Without Waste.” – said László Békefi, the Managing Director of Coca-Cola HBC Hungary.

The raw material of the 100 percent recyclable cardboard used for KeelClip^TM packaging comes from a sustainable, responsible forestry and certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), which guarantees that the marketed products meet the requirements of environmentally and socially responsible production and manufacturing.

With the investment of 15 million euros by the Coca-Cola HBC Group and with the introduction of KeelClip^TM packaging innovation for The Coca-Cola Company-owned brands in all of its markets in the European Union, the plastic usage will be reduced by approximately 2000 tons per year at Group level.

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Coca-Cola Hungary

Coca-Cola has been present in Hungary since 1968, the company’s domestic production began in 1996. So far the Coca-Cola Hungary has invested 120 billion forints in Hungary.

The Coca-Cola Company is a beverage company producing a full portfolio of soft drinks, which markets more than 500 carbonated and non-carbonated brands in more than 200 countries around the world. The company is continuously shaping its portfolio, reducing the sugar content of its products and making significant efforts to reduce its ecological footprint by recovering the water used in beverage production, making improvements in packaging technology and promoting recycling.

The bottler of Coca-Cola Hungary is Coca-Cola HBC Hungary, a company that operates twp bottling plants in Hungary, employs 1,050 people and provides jobs for nearly 13,000 people in its entire operations. The company is one of the largest one of the most important Hungarian food processing companies, it exports its products to 26 countries. Nearly two-thirds of the raw materials used to make soft drinks are provided by domestic suppliers.

Thanks to the continuous product development over the past years, Coca-Cola HBC Hungary now offers more than 100 types of non-alcoholic beverages to its consumers: carbonated soft drinks (Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola light, Coca-Cola zero, Coca-Cola lemon, orange and vanilla, Fanta, Fanta zero, Sprite, Sprite zero, Kinley, Royal Bliss), natural mineral waters (NaturAqua), flavoured waters (NaturAqua Emotion, Aquarius), innovative water drinks (Smartwater), juices, nectars and fruit drinks (Cappy, Cappy Pulpy, Cappy Junior, Cappy Lemonade, Cappy+), ice teas (FuzeTea, FuzeTea zero), sport drinks (Powerade), energy drinks (Monster, Burn) and plant-based drinks (AdeZ) are also part of the portfolio. As of May 2020, the company’s product portfolio includes the Rainforest Alliance certified premium Costa Coffee, and this year its offering has already been expanded with the Caffé Vergnano brand. The company also sells premium spirits, including Rézangyal, Jack Daniel’s, Finlandia, Bacardi, The Famous Grouse and Campari.

20.06.2022

Shell: Steps Towards a Sustainable Future in Hungary Too

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Shell aims to become a driving force for progress towards more and cleaner energy solutions also in Hungary, together with its customers and the society. Shell has recently taken several steps towards a sustainable future in our country. Among others, Shell Hungary zRt. announced in December 2021 that it had acquired the LNG filling station at the M0 motorway, which is planned to be the first in its nationwide network to be built in the coming years, to expand its domestic fuel portfolio. Liquefied natural gas (LNG) has significant potential to make transport fuel cleaner and more economical and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from heavy goods vehicles.

This February, two new ultrafast chargers were added to the Shell Recharge network at the Péterhegyi út Shell site in Budapest. A few weeks ago, the European Union announced a list of successful Connecting Europe Facility (CEF2) tenders, thanks to which in the near future the Hungarian high-performance (at least 150 kW) electric car charging network will be expanded by 220 charging posts at 70 locations. The investments will give a new boost to the uptake of climate-friendly vehicles in Hungary. Within this, Shell Hungary is going to install 2 ultrafast chargers with 150 kW capacity at 20 retail sites.

In less than a year, the joint effort of Hungarian drivers and Shell has contributed to the offset of more than 44,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide under the Shell Carbon Neutralisation Program, launched last May. This huge amount can best be captured by imagining it in hot air balloons. A hot-air balloon[1] can hold around 1 tonne of gas, meaning that last year, in a fraction of a year, drivers and Shell together extracted more than 44,000 balloons’ worth of CO₂ from the atmosphere – a hot-air balloon festival of that size would be a world record.

Shell also focuses on sustainability of its delicious coffee. In Hungary, Shell launched Shell Café, the new brand for the “concept store” type café and high-quality coffee as well as other products offered by Shell in August 2021.The coffee offered by Shell Café is “Rainforest” certified, confirming that the coffee beans are sourced in accordance with the three main pillars of sustainability – social, economic and environmental. Suppliers and farmers are required to adhere to strict criteria in their production and distribution. International FSC certification then assures customers that the packaging in which Shell Café products are packed uses wood which has been responsibly harvested in accordance with sustainable forestry practices as a raw material.

[1] Calculated with a hot air balloon of 500-560 m³ in which 1 tonne of CO₂ can be charged.

10.06.2022

Self-driving, ABS, sustainable mobility – BCSDH weekend as a guest of Continental Automotive Hungary Kft

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BCSDH’s weekend provided an exciting program for the 13 senior executives and their partners involved on 27-28 May.

Both days were hosted by the Veszprém factory of Continental Automotive Hungary Kft. As part of the first half-day program, we gained insight into the development, production and testing activities of the Veszprém company with the help of Zoltán Dapsy, plant manager, and Zoltán Hornyacsek, Continental’s sustainability sponsor.

Csaba Livják, the founder-owner of BuildEXT, spoke about the use of building information systems and the hi-tech tools of digitalisation in the construction of the Continental factory and the process of factory construction.

The next morning on the test track, we were also able to experience how the developments to promote safe and sustainable mobility that we learned the day before work in practice.

It made the experience unforgettable when participants sat down next to the test drivers to experience the same for themselves.

The two-day program ended with a pleasant lunch on the test track. We thank the host Continental and their leaders for their comprehensive professional program and hospitality.

01.06.2022