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Smart Transition of EU cities towards a new concept of smart Life and Economy (mySMARTLife)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2021,

mySMARTLife project aims at the development of an Urban Transformation Strategy to support cities in the definition of transition models, as a suitable path to reach high level of excellence in its development process, addressing the main city challenges and progressing to the smart people and smart economy concepts.The main instrument to achieve this very ambitious strategy will be the definition ...
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Nature Based Solutions for re-naturing cities: knowledge diffusion and decision support platform through new collaborative models (Nature4Cities)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2020,

Based on a detailed mapping of urban challenges and relevant nature-based solutions (NBS), Nature4Cities aims at developing complementary and interactive modules to engage urban stakeholders in a collective-learning process about re-naturing cities, develop and circulate new business, financial and governance models for NBS projects, as well as provide tools for the impacts assessment, valorisatio ...
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Cost-Effective Recycling of CDW in High Added Value Energy Efficient Prefabricated Concrete Components for Massive Retrofitting of our Built Environment (VEEP)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

Around 461 million ton/year of C&DW are generated in EU28. Recent studies on the characterization of C&DW samples at European level revealed a predominant fraction of concrete (52% average). Over the last years, novel technology has been developed aiming to guarantee high quality recycled concrete aggregates for use in new concrete, thereby closing the concrete loop. The most advanced concrete re ...
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Innovative Ecological on-site Sanitation System for Water and Resource Savings (INNOQUA)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2020,

INNOQUA will accelerate the path to market of a modular set of innovative, patent protected, award winning and scalable fully ecological sanitation solutions that address wide market needs in rural communities, for agricultural industries, for sustainable home-builders or collective housing owners and for developing countries worldwide. The modular system is based on the purification capacity of b ...
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Training Engineers and Researchers to Rethink geotechnical Engineering for a low carbon future (TERRE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2019,

TERRE aims to develop novel geo-technologies to address the competitiveness challenge of the European construction industry in a low carbon agenda. It will be delivered through an inter-sectoral and intra-European coordinated PhD programme focused on carbon-efficient design of geotechnical infrastructure. Industry and Research in the construction sector have been investing significantly in recent ...
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Highly Innovative building control Tools Tackling the energy performance GAP (HIT2GAP)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

Measurement campaigns have shown major discrepancies in buildings energy performance between planned energy demand and real energy consumption, while nowadays most of the newly constructed offices buildings are equipped with BMS systems, integrating a more or less extended measurement layer providing large amounts of data. Their integration in the building management sector offers an improvement c ...
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Building-integrated photovoltaic technologies and systems for large-scale market deployment (PVSITES)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

Building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) is currently an expansive market. Market analysts estimate a compound annual growth rate of 18,7% and a total of 5,4 GW installed worldwide between 2013 and 2019. One of the main drivers for BIPV market growth in the EU is the increasingly demanding legislation related to energy performance in buildings. The large potential for energy savings in buildings l ...
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Optimised Energy Efficient Design Platform for Refurbishment at District Level (OptEEmAL)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

OptEEmAL aims to develop an Optimised Energy Efficient Design Platform for refurbishment at district level, which will deliver an optimised, integrated and systemic design based on an Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) approach for building and district retrofitting projects, reducing time delivery and uncertainties, resulting in improved solutions when compared to business-as-usual practices. This ...
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Demand Response in Block of Buildings (DR-BOB)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

The aim of the DR-BOB project is to demonstrate the economic and environmental benefits of demand response in blocks of buildings for the different key actors required to bring it to market. To achieve its aim the DR-BOB project will:• Integrate existing technologies to form the DR-BOB Demand Response Energy Management solution for blocks-of-buildings with a potential ROI of 5 years or less. • De ...
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Built to Specifications: Self-Inspection, 3D Modelling, Management and Quality-Check Tools for the 21st Century Construction Worksite (Built2Spec)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

Built2Spec brings together a new and breakthrough set of technological advances for self-inspection and quality assurance that will be put into the hands of construction stakeholders to help meeting EU energy efficiency targets, new build standards, and related policy ambitions. B2S will expand upon a cloud based construction support platform, conceived following the most advanced integrated desi ...
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Energy Efficient Ventilated Façades for Optimal Adaptability and Heat Exchange enabling low energy architectural concepts for the refurbishment of existing buildings (E2VENT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

EVENT will develop, demonstrate and validate a cost effective, high energy efficient, low CO2 emissions, replicable, low intrusive, systemic approach for retrofitting of residential and commercial buildings, able to achieve NZEB retrofit standard levels, through the integration of an innovative adaptive ventilated façade system, including: • Embedded, breakthrough smart modular heat recovery units ...
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REtrofitting Solutions and Services for the enhancement of Energy Efficiency in Public Edification (RESSEEPE)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

RESEEPE will bring together design and decision making tools, innovative building fabric manufacturers and a strong demonstration programme to demonstrate the improved building performance through retrofitting. The core idea of the RESSEEPE project is to technically advance, adapt, demonstrate and assess a number of innovative retrofit technologies. Reductions in the area of 50% will be achieved i ...
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Intelligent NeighbourhooD Energy Allocation & Supervision (IDEAS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

IDEAS aims to illustrate how communities, public authorities and utility companies across the EU can be engaged in the development and operation of energy positive neighbourhoods and the economic and environmental benefits of doing so. To this end IDEAS will demonstrate how energy positive neighbourhoods can be cost effectively and incrementally implemented by designing, testing and validating:•\t ...
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Thermal and Acoustic Insulating Material from Finished Leather Waste (TAIMEE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

The project aims at the production and market implementation of an innovative leather composite material which has thermal insulation properties in addition to acoustical isolation properties for immediate application in building sector. The material is elaborate with the waste generated in industries at the end of tanning process and the companies that use leather to elaborate its products. The i ...
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Building Energy Efficiency for Massive market UPtake (BEEMUP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

BEEM-UP will demonstrate the economic, social and technical feasibility of retrofitting initiatives, drastically reducing the energy consumption in existing buildings, and lay the ground for massive market uptake. BEEM-UP involves the building owners at 3 sites in France, Sweden and the Netherlands to implement an innovative approach to go beyond a 75% reduction in space heat energy consumption, i ...
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Evaluation de limpact du cycle de vie et amélioration de lefficacité énergétique en zone urbaine (UrbiLCA)

Start date: Jun 30, 2013, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

Le secteur de la construction représente un secteur stratégique d'intérêt dans l'espace SUDOE, qui présente des interactions évidentes entre ladurabilité environnementale, la compétitivité économique et la R&D.Le projet UrbiLCA a pour objectif de promouvoir les économies d'énergie, de matières premières et la réduction des impacts environnementaux liés à la gestion des zones urbaines durant leur c ...
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SMART HERITAGE BUILDINGS (SHBUILDINGS)

Start date: Oct 31, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

Il existe une demande de technologie parmi les administrations pour gérer les bâtiments historiques afin d'éviter l'actuel modèle de conservation, qui se base sur la restauration d'une part ou, la consommation d'énergie non contrôlée d'autre part. Face à ce paradigme, le projet SHBUILDINGS propose un changement en matière de conservation de bâtiments historiques, en promouvant la conservation prév ...
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E3SoHo- ICT services for Energy Efficiency in European Social Housing (E3SoHo)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

The overall objective of E3SoHo project is to implement and demonstrate in 3 Social Housing pilots an integrated and replicable ICT-based solution which aims to bring about a significant reduction of 25% of energy consumption in European social housing by:-providing tenants with feedback on consumption and offering personalised advice for improving their energy efficiency-reducing the energy consu ...
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Life Cycle Assessment for Energy Efficiency in Buildings (EnerBuiLCA)

Start date: Dec 31, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

El objetivo último del proyecto EnerBuiLCA es fomentar la sostenibilidad en la construcción y rehabilitación de edificios, ya sean de viviendas o de uso terciario o industrial. Para ello, se plantea el desarrollo de una herramienta destinada a realizar el análisis de ciclo de vida de edificios existentes o de nueva construcción, permitiendo identificar las mejores soluciones en términos de eficien ...
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INASMET-NOBATEK-CANBIO-CDAPP (INNOCAPP)

Start date: Jun 30, 2008, End date: Dec 30, 2010,

La gestión de los recursos derivados de subproductos de explotación forestal y agrícola se convierte en un foco de interés para el sector energético biomasa. La región objeto del proyecto tiene una fuente de recursos: el bosque de las Landas. El sector químico y de materiales está tan presente en el sur de Aquitania como en Gipuzkoa. A pesar de este activo, resulta destacable que son pocos los act ...
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Vocational training on sustainable buildings maintenance and refurbishment

Start date: Oct 1, 2013,

Nowadays, the training references that are part of the national catalogues of qualifications do not integrate Units of Short-term Training (UST) concerning sustainability issues. Although the construction industry has adopted several new technical improvements enabling companies to build more sustainable buildings, the training offer is still limited and the European cooperation is relatively weak ...
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