How smart resource-saving faucets help project planners tackle rising electricity costs
Today, keeping the carbon footprint of new builds low has become an integral part of project planning. Whether it’s about meeting strict sustainability targets or accommodating fluctuating energy...
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How digital guidance and rewards help children wash their hands well
Smart and engaging technology can have a true impact on hand hygiene. Pilot projects in several kindergartens have confirmed the success of the digital system, leading to a significant increase in...
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Integrated hand hygiene: How can healthcare institutions use faucet data for better hand hygiene?
Most of today’s hospitals are left with no other option than relying on direct observation and a general trust in staff and visitors to comply with hand hygiene standards. However, this often comes...
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Sustainable hotel bathrooms: How to choose the right bathroom fixtures
Hotel guests are more conscious of water and energy consumedduring their stays than ever before. Smart bathroom installations can save resources without compromising on eleganceor customer...
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How to choose the right faucet for your next hospital project
Wondering about sanitary guidelines and ergonomics in medical facilities? Here’s how to elevate hygiene, safety and comfort in sensitive environments by choosing the right faucet.
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Find the right faucets for daycares and school projects
Smart installations are increasingly becoming prevalent features of modern public spaces. And educational institutions are no exception. Here’s how to find the right faucets for schools and daycares.
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How to select a bathroom and kitchen faucet for residential projects
For your next residential building project, here are a few tips that help you find the right faucet for your needs.
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Why are certain faucet components built out of plastic?
If carefully selected, plastic is an essential material used for faucet components – to ensure water safety and to provide hard-wearing and long-lasting fixtures.
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How to save water and electricity in residential buildings
Showers use a considerable amount of water. For your next residential project, here’s how smart showers can significantly cut your building’s water and energy use.
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5 easy ways to cut water waste in public buildings
Saving water in larger buildings isn’t always a hefty task: from detecting leaks to installing water-saving fixtures, here are 5 easy tips that will help you get things right.
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Health & Safety series: The touchless future of airports
As safety and hygiene move to the top of airport planners’ priority list, what solutions are they deploying to keep passengers comfortable and secure?
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When durability is your client’s priority: picking a faucet that lasts
Diving into your next project and wondering which faucet to pick? Are you and your client both keen on investing in well-built, durable fixtures? Look no further. We compiled an easy checklist for...
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Health & Safety series: Smaller upgrades that improve hospital safety today and tomorrow
After experiencing the hardships of operating under a pandemic, how are planners working to ensure present and future hospitals are pandemic proof?
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Health & Safety series: How to build hygiene into our schools
As schools across Europe work to improve hygiene and manage contagion, many seek short-term upgrades with long-term potential to keep students and staff safer. Discover some of the most impactful...
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Choosing the right faucet range for every project – big or small
Whether you are designing a residential project or hospital, you need a range of faucets that can be made to fit every demand. Faucets that can be installed anywhere, for any purpose.
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The top water-saving faucets of 2020
Shorter showers are just one way to reduce water waste in our homes. And with technology helping us to cut consumption by up to half, here is how these top-selling faucets can help you cut water...
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Debunking myths about touchless faucets
Why touchless faucets are a good match for any project – no matter the size Smart faucets are more efficient and cost-effective than you might think.
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Which faucets can help buildings become more sustainable and how?
The current construction landscape shows a continuing rise in sustainable building projects. A 2019 Ramboll survey of architects, developers, real estate investors and contractors found that of their...
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Quality brings comfort to a new Children’s hospital in Finland
Upon entering the New Children's Hospital in Helsinki, Finland, visitors are met with an overall design that feels warm and inviting with thoughtful touches such as a tap for cleaning wheelchairs in...
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How the right faucets and showers can contribute to green buildings
From energy use and materials to waste and recycling, a building needs to meet several requirements to be certified as a green building. Find out how water usage and faucets fit into that picture.
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Why choose smart faucets for your next building project?
Automatic and touchless faucets are becoming increasingly prevalent in public places. Find out what’s behind the movement to smart faucets and why your project customers may want to switch.
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Building Information Modelling (BIM) with Oras
As per the overall digitalization, the manufacturer industry really needs to stay ahead of the game with the offering for digitalized ways of working. In this article we will have a look on how...
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How SMART faucets promote hygiene in health and care facilities
Now more than ever, hospitals and elder care homes have safety at the top of their agenda. Planners and installers can help by offering SMART sanitary solutions that prevent contamination and fight...
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What is the modern consumer looking for when choosing faucets?
As consumers are becoming more eco-conscious, their preferences for faucet features change. Here are what modern consumers look for when choosing faucets for their household.
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Hygiene, safety and sustainability in focus: tips for choosing the faucet
Do you work in an institution that has special concerns and responsibility for patients, residents, co-workers and the environment? Read on for five essential tips for choosing right sanitary...
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Oras product highlights from 2018
There are lots of interior tips and trends you can apply in your home, but some little changes make a bigger difference than others. Upgrading your faucets in the bathroom or kitchen can give the...
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WATER COMPETENCE – Materials used in Oras products
With our products we want to ensure that the water we use is safe and not impaired by chemical substances. As a result, Oras products do not contain any materials classified as hazardous. Moreover,...
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Differences between Oras Shower panels
Oras shower panels are very popular all over the world in public places and they are very easy to install. By using Oras shower panels, up to 50% of the water consumption can be decreased.
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New Oras Inspera: Aesthetics, functionality and sustainability
Good product design is about more than good looks. It is about how high performance and functionality is enhanced by the product's shape and features, and how it all works together to support the...
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Oras Esteta Wellfit and shower system - installation
Oras Esteta Wellfit is a shower system with a modern and elegant design, featuring hot and cold-water treatment, or contrast water therapy. Despite its advanced features, the installation of this...
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The creation of Oras Esteta Wellfit told by NOA designer Michael Lammel
Developing new Oras products is an intricate and time-consuming process. At Oras, there is no compromise between design and functionality, which can create a challenging and exiting design process.
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Stylish, smart and functional solutions for kitchens
Oras Optima 2728F with smart Oras functions The kitchen is at the heart of every home – a place where people gather and enjoy time together. So it’s natural that consumers demand faucet solutions...
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A choice that can’t go wrong: Hybrid faucets combine the best features of touchless and manually operated faucets
There’s good news for those looking for a faucet that combines the best features and latest technology of modern touchless and manually operated faucets. The new generation of hybrid faucets offers a...
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The future of faucets: design and technology
In the Nordics, it is believed that people will move toward faucets offering even more technology-supported benefits in the future.
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Intelligent faucet solutions are part of today’s smart home
Homes digitize rapidly and new kinds of intelligent applications will make it easier to use and maintain home technology. Water is also part of the future of intelligent homes.
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Water is part of an intelligent home of the future
Technology and digitalization are coming to homes in the form of new product features and applications that make professionals’ work easier. Utilizing the latest technology has always been part of...
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Trends are guiding the design work of sanitary fittings
Oras' products combine timelessness and trends. Megatrends are even reflected in classical products that have been subtly modernized in response to changing preferences and a changing world.
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The trend of functionality comes to the bathrooms
Usefulness, quality and stylish design have for decades made Oras products classics for all kinds of homes. Trends like the now-enhancing functionality also extend to bathrooms and professionals.
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