Projects | How a magma13 project runs, and how to bring us into one
Most of this site describes what magma13 is. This page describes what happens once you decide to use it: how a project runs, and how to bring us into one.
If you are an architect, a developer, an operator or a private client with a project in progress, this is the practical part.
When to bring us in
There are three ways this usually starts.
THROUGH A PROJECT: An architect or a design studio calls us in, and we work alongside them through construction and delivery. Timing matters here, and not only for coordination. At concept or early design the assessment comes first, so what we specify is built into the project rather than added to it: centralised solutions integrated into the MEP design, passive elements set into the foundations, others placed in the grounds and the garden. None of that is available once the building is finished. At fit-out we work at room scale instead, but the structural options have closed.
DIRECTLY: Someone calls about a space they already live or work in. We survey it, install, and measure the result. No building project, no permits, nothing to coordinate with anyone. It works the same way for one room or for a whole house. Most people start with one space, the bedroom or the room they work in, and extend from there once they have lived with it. Retrofit is straightforward for the passive formats: they sit in the room rather than in the structure, so nothing has to be opened. Mains filters plug into existing outlets. Only water and electrical work needs access to the relevant runs, which in a finished building is a question of where the risers are, not whether the technology works.
ON YOUR OWN: Many clients start here, with a single product: a Ray Clean Power filter for the office, a Ray 400 or 900 for a room. It arrives with instructions and you install it yourself. Send us a floor plan and we will tell you where to put it, working from how that format behaves and from what the drawing shows. There is no survey and no measurement in this case, so the advice rests on the product and the drawing rather than on readings taken in your rooms. If you want the measured version later, we can still come.
How a project runs
ASSESSMENT: We measure the space before recommending anything. A proprietary SOLS protocol and algorithm evaluate thirteen environmental parameters on site. These include body voltage at the positions people actually occupy, conducted disturbance on the electrical lines, site and subsoil conditions, localised variations in the geomagnetic field, air and water quality, hyperspectral imaging, and entropy-of-information analysis. From these, we build the SOLS Coherence Index. It is not a health assessment. The assessment is carried out by qualified environmental specialists.
SPECIFICATION: We select the formats for each space, based on room size, where people spend most of their time, and which building systems are involved. The specification is issued with the rest of the design, not after it.
INSTALLATION: The passive formats need nothing built in: no power, no cabling, no controls, no penetrations, and no wet trades. The near-field layer connects to an approved ground or ESD bonding point. Water elements fit onto existing lines without altering the plumbing. The mains filter plugs into an outlet.
DOCUMENTATION: We measure the space again and issue a report setting out what the second set of readings shows. The report is yours, and it is what makes the work verifiable rather than a matter of opinion.
[Link] The detail behind all of this is on the Technology page.
WHO WE WORK WITH
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Architects and interior designers. A specification you can put in a package and defend to your client. We work to your drawings and your programme.
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MEP consultants. Measured electrical-environment data, and elements that do not interfere with what you have designed.
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Project managers. A defined scope, a short installation window, no wet trades.
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Hotel and wellness operators. A configuration built for your building, not a product anyone can order, and a documented basis for talking about it.
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Medical practices and healthcare professionals. Waiting rooms, offices, staff areas and common spaces. The work is on the environment of the premises. magma13 is not a medical device and carries no clinical claim.
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Private clients. One room, or the whole house, on whatever timescale suits you.
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Material producers and industrial partners. Integration into products and systems, assessed case by case.
What we need from you
Plans and elevations of the spaces in scope. Electrical and MEP information where building systems are involved. Access for the assessment, and where a project is under way, ideally before the services are finalised. A decision on scope and phasing: most projects begin with one or two rooms.
That is all we need. The project does not have to be at a particular stage, and you do not have to have decided anything about the technology before we look at the building.
THE PRACTICAL ANSWERS
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Where we work. Across Europe, with most current activity in Switzerland, Italy and Germany. We travel further where the project justifies it.
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What it costs to start. The assessment is a paid engagement, priced to the size of the building, with travel billed where it applies. On larger projects it can be absorbed into the wider scope, so it is worth asking.
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How long the assessment takes. Roughly one to two hours per room, and about the same for a significant open space. An apartment is usually half a day, a large house a full day. Hotels depend on how many rooms you want sampled and what you want tested.
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Who installs. We do, or we supply the instructions for your contractor to install. Which route makes sense is agreed per project.
Where it has been done
Most of our work is done under confidentiality. In numbers, it covers many private homes, hotels in Switzerland and Italy, offices, banks and manufacturing plants in Switzerland and Italy, dental and chiropractic practices, part of a cardiology institute, a maternity clinic, care homes, a school, and an equestrian centre. Some of it is indoors, some in gardens and grounds, some in the water and electrical systems of the building.
In every professional and healthcare setting the work is on the environment of the premises — waiting areas, offices, staff areas and shared spaces. It is never on patients and never on clinical activity.
Beyond buildings
magma13 can also be integrated into materials, products and building systems rather than installed as an object: into a panel, a surface, a piece of furniture, a component that goes into a building. SOLS works with material producers and industrial partners on this case by case, and every application is assessed for technical fit and intended use before anything is agreed.
If you are considering integration rather than installation, that conversation starts differently and it is worth having early.
magma13 is not a medical device. It is not intended to diagnose, prevent, treat or cure any disease and is intended solely for personal well-being within an environment. The technical information given here does not constitute therapeutic, preventive or diagnostic claims. magma13 does not filter, purify or disinfect water and does not make water therapeutic or healthier. magma13 should not be used as a substitute for medical treatment, devices or procedures.