Sebo Gabor is with Lico Consulting. He shares with the listeners the exciting world of green  technology, how it has the potential to improve quality of life and place, improves air quality, looks  more aesthetic, and changes communities to the better. There are three parts to this interview.

Part 1 Transcript:

Suzanne Bowen: Welcome to DIDX podcast channel where we bring you the expertise of  technology leaders around the world. I’m your host Suzanne Bowen and today we have Gabor Sebo  from Lico Consulting. He was introduced to us by another editor of Techistan.net named Ali Memon so we do appreciate that. Hello Gabor.

Gabor Sebo: Hello Suzanne.

Suzanne Bowen: Really good to meet you and I appreciate you giving us this time. I know one thing, obviously we were attracted to what you do because Green Technology is very important for many reasons around the world. Your company as Lico Consulting. I was wondering if you could give a little background about it.

Gabor Sebo: It is a small consulting company that was established almost 20 years ago. I met friends from Belgium during an era of change the system of Hungary from the communism to the market economy. There was a huge demand that brought capital investments and knowledge technology investment in Hungary. It was time to make many business consulting services to match-making companies with investors from abroad to Hungary. Some mixtures of capital ventures…

After a certain period ,my Belgian partner withdrew from the business. I stayed on and made several task forces for different type of businesses. I gathered experts from business and from the universities to solve several problems emerging in technical or financial types in joint ventures or privatization process. The green projects I made first time in 2000th year. I met several experts, and I saw the Kyoto agreement and green technologies’ potential of big market, based on the technology needs for enterprises and the environment problem.

This was mostly in the densely urbanization cities in Europe and other parts of the globe … the desertification problem, I thought,  it could be oriented for Green Technologies. Green facades was the first and still is the main project we are doing now.

Suzanne Bowen: I do want to ask you something about that, but let me just summarize what you just said. It shows that you used good timing, good choices, you had mentors, you are quite aware of what’s important to the world taking note of the Kyoto situation and knowing that green technologies could save people money, improve societies, I mean everything you can imagine for that kind of goes right in to the next question that you just brought up. Green Façade, green wall project. Tell us about that please.

Gabor Sebo: The Green Façade project. You know in Hungary, there are plenty of so called block houses made in 60’s and 70’s. There was much need of medium quality for occupied flats for many people. There was some flow from the countryside to the industrialized cities. There were many families without any flat , so a new system was created called pre-fabricated block houses. This in general included 10 floor house with concrete banners and not the best solution from aesthetic, ecological or environment point of view.

There was a social decision by the government to have people living in the cities. But now many cities in Hungary and also much of Eastern Europe were using these type of houses. In Hungary there are 600,000 flats. The idea was this huge volume of flats cannot be destroyed within one year or ten years perspective. We can resolve the problem with some new quality. We give them a more socially and environmentally-friendly lifestyle. That was the idea… to find the best technology and adapt it. These concrete blocks… who can give an environment and condition that must be better.

Suzanne Bowen: Right, I can see the emotional implications, social, physical. There are so many different problems that it solves.

Gabor Sebo: Yes it is a very complicated process, and it is one of the greatest problem in Hungary. Do you know there was some privatization after the social system changed and all these block house are managed by thousands of small proprietors. This makes decision making very slow.

Suzanne Bowen: Oh, I can imagine.

Gabor Sebo: To make an investment. Because it is an investment and these come with decisions and approval by the proprietors.

Suzanne Bowen: Exactly and people are afraid to make radical changes. We all know that.

Part 2 transcript:

Suzanne Bowen: Welcome to DIDX podcast media channel where we bring you the expertise of technology leaders around the world. I’m your host Suzanne Bowen and today we have Gabor Sebo. He is involved in Green Technologies. You might have heard him in the first session. This is part two. Glad to have you back, Gabor.

Gabor Sebo: Yes. Good to see you again.

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