Design Competition for Sustainable Street Cabinet from Enel Group

Enel Group ,in cooperation with Open Innovability, is inviting all creative designers all over the world to participate in its competition and find a new design for Sustainable Enel Street Cabinet. Enel Global Infrastructure and Networks is looking for a new design for a sustainable street cabinet (a built-in container for the distribution of electricity containing new diagnostic devices and tools) which must have innovative features in design and materials, incorporating the principles of circular economy and sustainability.

Competition Description:-

• The street cabinets constitute electrical infrastructures on the street dedicated to the control of the low voltage electricity grid by Enel's expert workforce.
• The technological development of the Enel Group has recently led to a technological evolution of the street cabinet: it is now defined as SMART because it contains a special terminal block, remote switches and an advanced sensor kit for monitoring electrical and environmental data measurements.
• The use of street cabinets follows daily and ordinary activities that require internal operations and inspections only by Enel workers, aimed at checking the structure and verifying its integrity in the event of accidental impacts or any tampering. For the safety of Enel’s specialist workforce and third parties such as pedestrians, the cabinet complies with specific safety conditions.
• The new design must ensure the complete observance of the technical and safety regulations currently in adoption for its use and installation. Its dimensions must also take into account the need to contain all the equipment internally required.

Evaluation Criteria:-

Enel will evaluate the proposals using the following criteria:

• Technical and normative compliance.
• Better integration in urban and rural context.
• Adoption of circular economy and sustainability principles.
• Aesthetic and communication quality.
• Innovation.
• Economic and realization feasibility, according to cost estimates.

• The first-place winner will get an amount of 20,000 euros.
• The second-place winner will get an amount of 10,000 euros.
• The applicants selected for the option/p re-emption right will get an amount of 7,000 euros.

• Designers, startups, scale-ups, SMEs, and industries are eligible to participate in this challenge.
• The development of the new street cabinet will have to address the following requirements;
• Comply with the technical, safety and security requirements currently in adoption by Enel for the external container and its internal components.
• Have suitable dimensions for the installation of all components.
• Respond to a better integration with the urban or rural context where it is installed (possibly with the possibility of foreseeing more variations of its version based on the context).
• Incorporate into its design and implement as much as possible, the main principles of circular economy and sustainability.
• Promote and valorize the corporate image of Enel and its vision through the cabinet's design.
• Provide the possibility to convey messages aimed at various stakeholders of the Company.

About Enel Group:-

Enel Group is an Italian multinational manufacturer and distributor of electricity and gas. Enel was first established as a public body at the end of 1962, and then transformed into a limited company in 1992. Enel is the 73rd largest company in the world by revenue, with €65.0 billion in 2020. As of 2020, Enel had a stock market capitalization of €82 billion, making it Europe's largest utility by capitalization.

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