OKI Innovation Award for Infrastructure Management

The city of Thun wins the OKI Innovation Award for its "Futuricum" electric waste collection vehicle. Also nominated were the joint solution of the cities of Morges and Pully for the electronic processing of excavation applications and the experience-oriented and interactive visitor tour of the Thurgau waste incineration plant (KVA).

The winning project of the city of Thun convinced the jury through the combination of technical innovations, the contribution to climate protection and the pioneering role assumed by the public sector. The successful communication, which clearly informs the population about the closed energy cycle, was also convincing.

Novel innovation award

The joint digital platform for processing excavation applications of the cities of Pully and Morges and the new interactive visitor experience at the Thurgau waste recycling plant made it onto the shortlist. The jury praised the electronic processing platform of the cities in western Switzerland as a successful e-government project. The tour of the waste incineration plant is forward-looking, the jury praised. It makes waste recycling accessible to all generations in a modern and attractive way.

The Innovation Award of the Organisation of Municipal Infrastructure (OKI) honours innovative projects with pilot character of cities, municipalities and inter-municipal special-purpose associations that facilitate, optimise and make the operation and use of municipal infrastructures customer-friendly. Solutions from the fields of technology, management and communication were sought.

"It would be nice if the OKI Innovation Award served to encourage cities and municipalities to share best-practice solutions with each other," explains OKI President Alain Jaccard during the award ceremony at the OKI General Assembly in Bellinzona on 15 June 2018.

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