Environment

Although the recession had a positive impact on the world's energy demand, buildings are still using too much energy and using it inefficiently. Buildings must become greener are smarter to lower the global energy demand and reach CO2 reduction targets. This is easier to achieve than making Generation & Transmission more efficient, especially if fo...

The European fire protection market is a conservative but large market with limited growth opportunities. To stimulate new demand and exploit opportunities that exist within various vertical applications, market participants are increasing their vertical focus, offering products and expertise specific to end-user applications. End-user markets wer...

The European BIPV market has seen exceptional growth in recent past. What started as a luxurious niche segment of the PV market, has today established itself as an active and more feasible option for buildings. Yet, demand is highly linked to legislative support and the industry is led by government and EU set targets for the adoption of renewable ...

The French ozone market is the largest and most established market in Europe. The usage of ozone is wider spread in France than it is in other European countries, primarily due to the efforts of one company  Trailigaz. Trailigaz, a French company that now belongs to Wedeco, specialises in ozone treatment and has aggressively marketed this technolo...

The European lighting control systems market is seen as a growth market with strong growth opportunities in the coming years. It is a fragmented market hosting companies from various backgrounds including lighting companies, building automation manufacturers and lighting control specialists. Market participants range from established multinational ...

The European fire suppression systems market took a major hammering in 2009 as the recession and collapse of construction markets kicked in. The next few years will remain tough as construction remains depressed, although the underlying market drivers of fire and safety solutions remain strong and a return to growth is expected by 2012. This stud...

This market insight presents an analysis of the influence of EU Directives on the growth of water & wastewater treatment systems market. It also shows the influence of specific legislation on key treatment technologies, compliance levels across the region and future market opportunities that will be driven by legislation.

The Russian fire and safety market is very much in the growth stage of its life cycle and this can be seen in both the fire detection and fire suppression markets where strong growth is expected to the end of the forecast period in 2015. Driven by both construction growth and increased regulation, growth in Russia will outstrip other European marke...

With the rises in energy prices and the increase in environmental awareness over the past 5 years, a number of entrepreneurs spotted a gap in the market for tools that enable consumers to save money on energy bills by monitoring domestic energy consumption. With a very modest start, these small start-ups have found a great response from a growing s...