Announcements and press coverage around CLARA and BrusAir, its first application, built for the City of Brussels. Newest first.
Horizon Magazine, the research and innovation magazine of the European Union, looks at the MODELAIR project and at how AI-powered digital twins give cities a street-level picture of air pollution. BuildWind is featured as a project partner, with BrusAir as the platform that maps pollution across Brussels, including near schools, and Alessandro Gambale on where pollutants concentrate.
Read the article on Horizon MagazineThe Brussels Times on the gaps in the city's air quality monitoring and on BuildWind's plan for a detailed, predictive model of air pollution in Brussels, combining real-time data, numerical simulation and AI. That model became BrusAir.
Read the article on The Brussels TimesBuildWind is one of the winners of the Smart City 2024 call for projects "Data-Driven Smart City" of the City of Brussels, with BrusAir: an online tool for a rapid and accurate assessment of air quality in Brussels, street by street. BrusAir has been live since June 2025 and is the first application of CLARA-web.
The winning projects on smartcity.brusselsJournalists can reach the team at [email protected]. The company behind CLARA is presented on the About page, and the peer-reviewed publications on the Science page.