To waterproof the walk-in shower, ceramic tile over cement board runs floor to ceiling and wraps the edge of the window recess. This design delineates the walk-in shower that fills the space of the bathroom's original 1948 pink tub. “We hope to bring costs down to make it affordable enough to sell in water-deprived developing countries,” Mehrdad says. Fixed glass panels are one example of doorless shower ideas that make a small bathroom more spacious. Most buyers are commercial clients, due to the €6,000 cost of the shower. Hundreds of Orbital showers have already been installed around Europe and the US. A new mission for the Swedish space shower “The city’s tech scene encouraged me to set up Orbital’s headquarters there,” Mehrdad says. In 20, Malmö attracted more start-up investment than any other location in Scandinavia besides the capital cities. However, in the years since the construction of the Øresund Bridge between Sweden and Denmark, Malmö has become home to many biotech and IT companies. The company is based in Malmö, which has struggled in recent years to overcome its reputation as a gritty place. Swedish space shower helps reinvent a city The project, supported with a guarantee under the European Fund for Strategic Investments, will double the number of jobs in the company, which currently employs 70 people. “The company’s mission is truly inspiring and very much in line with the Bank’s environmental goals,” he says. This enhances the feeling of security, privacy and comfort. It was designed to cradle clients in a reclined position with an open front, padded toilet seat. “I immediately called my colleagues at the Bank to look into it,” Hoffsaes says.įrancisco Alves da Silva, the EIB loan officer working on the project, was impressed right from the start. Duralife’s Tilt-in-Space Commode Shower Chair is the leading Tilt-In-Space Shower Chair for adults featuring medical/furniture-grade PVC.

The EIB’s loan officer based in Stockholm, Jérémie Hoffsaes, saw Mehrdad present his company’s ideas at a tech fair in Sweden’s capital a few years back. Since developing the shower, Mehrdad started his own company, Orbital Systems, which the European Investment Bank recently supported with a € 15 million loan to scale up production and R&D. The system also saves up to 80% of the energy usually needed to heat a shower, and it allows you to track your savings and consumption with an app. “Our shower system usually needs from 5-10 litres of water,” says Mehrdad, “which is continuously recirculated at an ideal temperature.” A typical shower uses 100 litres of water during a 10-minute shower. Like the space systems, the shower he created uses 90% less water than a conventional shower, because the water is instantly purified and recirculated to the showerhead. ©Orbital Systems Houston, I’m ready for take-offĪfter the NASA internship, Mehrdad moved back to his hometown, Malmö, in southern Sweden, keen on developing his own space-style filter for use on Earth, where he believed it could have a bigger impact.

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