Call | HORIZON-CL4-2022-RESILIENCE-01

Project duration | January 2023 – December 2026

Sustainability | Materials | Buildings | Energy

Objective | The Exploit4InnoMat OITB (or Ecosystem) aspires to provide a sustainable solution across Europe for the design, upscaling and validation of new material concepts for the building envelope that will facilitate toward the achievement of the EC target for nearly zero energy buildings (nZEB).

The project will provide services across the supply chain of materials, through installation, validation and assessment scenarios for the end of life. The core of the Exploit4InnoMat is the 8 Pilot Lines, situated in 7 EU countries, able to process different type of advance and/or nano-enabled multifunctional materials, including sorting and processing of construction and demolition wastes (CDW) to be used as secondary raw materials. Exploit4InnoMat OITB will make available a high-end Open Innovation Testbed network for building envelopes including roofs and facades, enabling the replication of prototypes in different buildings taking into consideration the trade-offs between the three sustainability pillars, thus, Environment, Social, Governance, the life cycle stages as well as their impacts.

End-user market needs for low-cost, flexible, on demand material-based solutions which will be assessed through an extensive partnership knowledge on materials’ characterization and modelling, monitoring and process control, environmental and assessment, regulatory and standardization, social acceptance, and innovation management, thus achieving nZEB solutions. In order to accomplish this target, a wide range of expertise has been brought to the OITB covering fields, such as Open Innovation Testbeds for nano enabled cement, non-cement premixes and ceramics, advanced coatings and glazing solutions loaded with aerogel, fibers, PCMs and other nanomaterials providing multifunctional properties; pilot lines for nanodispersion, 3D printing and robotic spraying, as well as a network of four real scale living laboratories for nZEB technologies evaluation, will facilitate a realization tool for developing close to market technological solutions.

CETMA’s role | CETMA is responsible for Pilot Line 8 related to Cement-free (alkali activated) materials and components (precasted solutions) with recycled or natural aggregates. During the project will collaborate with the other partners to develop Cement-free construction materials and components with CDW (construction and Demolition Waste) aggregates to perform LCA/LCC analysis on novel materials that will be studied. CETMA will also perform some characterization test on the materials and components that will be developed bringing also their skills and knowledge in the OITB supporting start-up and SME that want to develop or test innovative solution in the field of sustainable construction material.

Partnership | UNI SYSTEMS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (GR), SINTEF (NO), NTUA (GR), NTNU (NO), RISE (SE), CSIC (ES) UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART (DE), UNYVERSITY OF NAVARRA (ES), KANS (TR), INLECOM COMMERCIAL PATHWAYS (GR), STAM (IT), ADVANCED MATERIAL SIMULATION (ES), BUREAU INTERNATIONAL DU BETON MANUFACTURE (BE), IRIS (ES), YCCM (CY), DBC (GR) TECH INSPIRE (UK), CETMA (IT), WHITESTEPS TECHNOLOGIES (GR), UNIVPM (IT) BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL (RO), UNISMART (IT), FORTH (GR), SOLITEK (LT), CROWDHELIX (IR), NETWORK IRELAND LIMITED (IR), LUCERNE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS (CH)

Status | Ongoing

Website | https://exploit4innomat.eu