Cal Poly Students and Startup Help Divert 10 Tons of Library Flooring from Landfill

Cal Poly Students and Startup Help Divert 10 Tons of Library Flooring from Landfill

Contact: Emily Slater805-756-6593, 805-266-0208; [email protected]  Tech-powered reuse platform gives construction waste a second life across the Central Coast SAN LUIS OBISPO — When Cal Poly alumnus Jason Wheeler returned to Kennedy Library, it wasn’t to relive his student days — it was to reimagine its transformation as a catalyst for environmental change. A business graduate…

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A Swiss Startup Reinvents Concrete Flooring with Gothic-Inspired Engineering

A Swiss Startup Reinvents Concrete Flooring with Gothic-Inspired Engineering

✕ Imagine fully demountable, prefabricated concrete floors that reduce emissions by two-thirds and are beautiful to boot. This is what Swiss company Vaulted claims to deliver with its Rippmann Floor System (RFS), named for the late Matthias Rippmann, a member of the Block Research Group (BRG) at ETH Zurich, Switzerland’s prestigious polytechnic university. The RFS…

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Innovative startup promoting urban gardening

Innovative startup promoting urban gardening

The innovative creative agency “They That Do” has recently launched a home-based startup, Seedfolk. Seedfolk combines antique botanical designs and timber vegetable engravings to enhance home gardening. It offers unique plant varieties beautifully packaged, not typically available at garden centers, capitalizing on the urban gardening trend. Gemma Hudson founded Seedfolk, born out of the national…

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