Inventa Partners and Qinetiq have scooped the first Bright Spark Award hosted jointly by BSj and BSRIA and given at the annual BSRIA Briefing 2004.

The Award recognises companies and individuals who are generating new ideas in the building services sector.

The two organisations worked on a new idea to aid water harvesting in evaporative heat rejection processes.

At the heart of this project is material based on the wing surface of a Namibian desert beetle. The material is a film applied to slats placed in the air stream above a cooling tower. Water collects on surfaces, running down against the airflow to be collected and recycled as required.

See next month’s BSj for more details on this project.

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