2022, Sep 1

Event

2022, Nov 18

2023, January

• Project Grant from German Federal Ministry for the environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection
• German Partners get together for celebration
• Team members visiting envisioned partners 

• Green Growth trip to Hamburg, Germany for a site survey about how to use and integrate plants into a building as seen at the Flakbunker
• Continuing to Dusseldorf, Germany to meet the gardening company that covered the Ko-Bogen II with 30.000 ordinary hornbeam hedge.
• Finally the trip took us to Eindhoven where a very detailed tour through the Trudo Toren - a sister building of the Bosco Verticale from Milan - provided with stunning information about plants and technical issues to solve. 

• KICK-Off conference in Hanoi visited by an audience of ministry members, engineers, architects, urban planner, designer, green growth consultants, decision makers, researchers
• Site survey at Smart City location
• MoU signing procedure

2023, March

• SUA Team on site in Hanoi
• Receiving LoRaWan (Long Range Wireless Area Network) equipment for micro-climate data measuring. Test run.
• Comparison of smart pumps with pilot building.
• Several site survey to study climate impact
• Thermal camera imaging

Event

2023, July 4

• The SUA Expert Workshop at the International Meeting Center IBZ of the TU Dortmund University was pleased about an interested attendance of about 80 visitors. 
• The workshop served to discuss the expertise of the expert audience in the German-speaking region with regard to synergies of digital twins, green buildings and AR/VR applications through contributions and think tanks. 
• Deliberate care was taken to discuss these three different topics in depth with experts from industry, science and society. An unusual mix of building stakeholders, which motivated very stimulating conversations and led to meaningful approaches.
• The workshop was accompanied by the visual recording designer Marie Jacobi, who summarised the events and results of the day.
• The accompanying exhibition of suppliers of software, hardware and products of building greening offered the possibility of lively exchange during the breaks of the compact day program.
• The idea of building an expert network from the successful SUA workshop was welcomed by many participants in order to continue these three topics on a regular basis. 
• The social happening at the end of the day by a BBQ and beer stand was very positively perceived.
• We are looking forward to the SUA follow-up symposium in 2024.

2023, July

• SUA Team visits DATA Week 2023 in Leipzig.
• Within the sessions, the topic will be presented around digital twins, stand-alone solutions and methods of application for urban neighbourhoods as well as municipal level.
• Exhibition about related companies in accordance to VR, GIS software and APIs. 

2023, Aug

• Achieving project Milestone 2

2023, Sep/Oct

• Prof. Thinh visited Geoforum and represent the SUA project in front of the audience.
• Preparing M-Project for greening facade in Hamburg, Germany.
• Preparing project trip to Vietnam to meet partner and adjust hardware.
• Hand over LoRaWAN sensor equipment hand over to Vinhomes for implementation, legal works and sensor placement
• Visit Vietnam Green Building Week 2023 in HCMC. Contribution with project outcome after a year of project procurement.
• Meeting with Vietnam Innovation Center - NIC
• Meeting with Vietnam Institute for Building Science and Technology - IBST
• Meeting with Vietnam Institute of Architecture - VIAR
• Meeting with Hanoi Architecture University
• Meeting with Vin University
• Meeting with Vietnam National University - CEMM
• Meeting with Vietnam Green Building Council - VGBC
• Site survey with Viglacera

Events

2023, Nov

• Contract Signing Ceremony between all partners. Achieving Milestone 1.
• Conference for legal statements in green development at NIC building.
• Meeting with VNU/CEMM in order to set up a green pilot project as template to scale up.
• Visiting audience with officials at NIC building in Hoa Lac Techno Park.
• Initial meeting with VinUni at Vinhomes OceanPark to conduct scientific collaboration together.

2024, Mar

• Site survey and implementation phase part I,  systems for sensors, greening, rain water collection in Hanoi as pilot project.
• A official delegation from ZUG/BMUV, the federal funding agency, is visiting Vietnam and ongoing EXI-Projects.

2024, April

Event

2024, April 29/30

• Project achieves milestones 3 & 4. 
• The TestBed01 Green roof and facade successfully implemented.
• 26x LoRaWAN sensors for relative air humidity & temperature and 2x LoRaWAN Gateways successfully installed at TONKIN 2 tower. 
• DAVIS weather station is running

• SUA Symposium at the IBZ building on TU Dortmund University campus. A two day event with participants from academia, industry and economy. 
• Tree-planting ceremony
• Site visit at WILO SE Campus Dortmund.

2024, May

2024, June

• The third session of the TU Dortmund Global Gallery Awards was held at IBZ and the SUA project was nominated for one of the three Awards. 

• The Vietnamese delegation from Ministry of Education Hanoi under Huynh Thanh Dat visited TU Dortmund and Wilo SE in a brief session about future collaboration in academia.
• The official delegation with members of the ministry and the Frankfurt consulate later unite with their peers of the Vietnamese Embassy in Germany in a scheduled meeting with the Ministry of Education Germany, Berlin. 

2024, July/August

• The project implementation phase part II. Location: Eight storey tall building, residential type:
  Within couple weeks the team enabled the installation of the beforehand designed and engineered roof and facade greening. 730 plants have been planted in 105 containers of different sizes. Besides a roof green - following the Miyawaki forest method (adopted) - a huge green curtain was set in front of the two exterior walls to the South and West.
• A DAVIS weather station, gateway and sensor network was placed atop the roof gathering data about relative air humidity,  air temperature, wind speed & direction, precipitation, solar radiation, UV and in addition to that by single sensors leaf & soil wetness, wall & surface temperature, relative air humidity and air temperature on specific designed sensor axes in the green and on a separate control and reference axis.  
• An automatic irrigation system with meter was installed as well to provide decent wetness in the morning and evening hours to the plants. Several fine adjustments due storm season from July till September were made in order to pledge the best solution for the green. Observations are measured by meter and camera. 
• Preparing work for the Wilo SE / Abionik GmbH water treatment unit has been engineered and adjusted due space arrangements on site. Later the water unit filters rain, grey and black water from the building. This service water takes over the automatic irrigation system and closes the cycle of water. 

2024, September

2024, November

• Prof. Thinh is guiding a group of young students to Vietnam where the teams contribute thoughts to flooding prevention & green urban areas.
• SUA project presentation at the NRW Ecocenter within the 13th workshop “Sustainable and intelligent buildings”. 

• TU Dortmund University becomes member of Vietnam Green Building Council VGBC.
• Prof. Thinh is on a business trip to Hanoi to meet important contacts from politics and business in order to promote the final conference on May 6, 2025.
• Technical planning and manufacture of the membrane filter system by Wilo Abionik for filtering rain, grey and black water from TestBed_02 in Hanoi. Installation of the system is scheduled for February 2025.