Founders

Knauf Insulation

Knauf is Slovenia’s biggest manufacturer of insulation and green solutions for construction and infrastructure product, as well as one of the country’s biggest exporters. Its 60 years of excellence and its speedy growth are ample proof of their quality and development. Knauf draws from a rich pool of knowledge and experience, as well as a highly trained and motivated workforce. At the same time, Knauf realizes its place as part of the local environment where it works. This vision was concentrated into the slogan Challenge. Create. Care., which communicates that their mission is founded on encouraging and seeking an alternative to the traditional way the business world thinks. It is also the slogan that drives their innovative solutions for a future in which we all want to live. In doing so, they dedicate special attention to people, the environment, and society at large.

 

They have joined the Living with a Green Heart initiative with their innovative Urbanscape® solutions, a blanket name for a group of products, concepts, and systems for providing green urban infrastructure, which in practice results in additional vertical and horizontal green surfaces, especially in urban environments and in traffic. All of their products are part of a new concept for green walls, green roofs, and other green islands in urban landscapes. The basis of all Urbanscape® solutions is a premium substrate of mineral wool as a growth medium that, depending on its purpose, also incorporates other system components.

 

For more information, take a look at their concept solutions for green roofs, landscaping, green walls, and other green innovations at na www.urbanscape-architecture.com and www.knaufinsulation.com

Riko

Riko is one of the biggest engineering companies in Europe. With its highly trained and qualified experts, comprehensive service range, dependable management concept, and long list of references in the region, Riko is well known as a provider of exceptional green technological solutions. The company is renowned in several different industries, including traffic safety, civil projects, environmental protection, energy infrastructure, and construction per se. It is in this very field where, with its proprietary system of wooden construction, Riko does not strive merely for sustainable concepts to become a mainstay in construction practices, but it also encourages green orientations far and wide among the culture of homeowners. It was with pride that it joined the Living with a Green Heart initiative.

 

Riko’s prefabricated wooden houses, which are trusted by responsible investors of residential and tourist complexes, daycares, and schools throughout Europe, have blazed a path of responsibility for sustainable development in the spatial, ecological, and social sense. They further give their residents the chance for a healthy and comforting living space. This is complemented by the P.A.T.H. line of houses, designed by Phillip Starck with Riko, a partnership that ensures a high living standard for homeowners.

 

Not just in business, but in its entire mission and philosophy, Riko follows, respects, and initiates sustainable guidelines in every sense of the word. The company has dedicated its mission to inclusion in its support for social, cultural, and other segments that are crucial for comprehensive development and a rich life in all aspects. This commitment is summarized in Riko’s tagline: global engineering for happy people.