O workshop focar-se-á na discussão de quatro grandes temáticas, especificamente construção, tecnologias da informação e comunicação aplicadas à área da construção, reciclagem/economia circular e soluções baseadas na natureza. Será também efetuada uma primeira apresentação do apoio financeiro disponível para as PMEs no âmbito do projeto METABUILDING – a convocatória SEED.

O registo poderá ser efetuado aqui: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfiU8MB2KnMnZuOwNuy1QNQivUaKOHd0CHus_bYT5yG8PVGiA/viewform

The Austrian workshop for innovation challenges will take place on Wednesday, 2nd December 2020, 14:00 – 18:00 (2:00 – 6:00 pm). It will be held as an entirely open cross-sectoral workshop with participants of all five METABUILDING sectors: Construction, Additive Manufacturing, Nature Based Solutions, Circularity & Recycling, and ICT-Digitalization. 

OBJECTIVES 

• To identify and develop a common understanding of challenges and topics of the future​.
• To identify and analyze key gaps.
• To develop and promote cooperation between researchers, innovators and investors and to increase the involvement of stakeholders from the government, research, the private sector and investors.
• Development and consensus regarding monitoring methods. ​
• Increased engagement with private companies, industry and investors to push innovations.​
• Identification of bilateral and multilateral collaboration.
• Further development of work programmes of METABUILDING funding.

This interactive online workshop will have a duration of 4 hours and will count with a maximum of 30 participants. It will be organized as follows:

1. Warm up session: Presenting successful cross industry innovation projects.

2. Analysis and evaluation session on prepared challenges.

3. Brainstorming session to collect ideas for further cross-sectoral challenges.

4. Quick evaluation session
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This edition was placed under the theme of energy renovation as a response to climate change, with the presentation of field solutions to facilitate the energy renovation and its massification.

Massifying supposes to innovate : an innovation that is both technical and organizational in order to remove barriers.

You can find all the contributions here: https://www.novabuild.fr/actualites/retour-sur-cirq2020-100-en-ligne-100-renovation

Also, the METABUILDING project has been presented during this online conference (webinar). For more information, watch the « morning » video (from 2h44min27sec).

* Construction and building Cluster in the French region « Pays de la Loire », and sustainable construction’ resource Center.

Link to video:    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXt9O8z1c1Q

From an economic point of view, the construction and building activity sector plays a preponderant role in the European economy, and is characterized, among other things, by the predominance of micro-enterprises and SMEs: 99% of companies in the sector in Europe are SMEs, accounting for 83% of total employment. SMEs therefore constitute a considerable potential and a breeding ground for solutions and major innovations. 

Yet today, the construction sector is still described as “aging” or “traditional”, and is struggling to renew itself to cope with a growing rise of new players, whose core business is innovation.

Indeed, compared with other industrial sectors, the world of construction has a significant deficit in terms of productivity growth, and R&D investments made by construction companies are still low.

To introduce innovations, companies often need to cooperate with partners in order to gain access to new knowledge and skills.

Large companies then tend more in this direction than SMEs (60% of large innovative companies establish cooperations to innovate). However, the latter are not to be outdone and have many assets for innovation: 61% of managers of SMEs in the construction sector in France consider innovation to be a key element of their development strategy.

Always fully in our role to support and help the growing skills of building professionals, we are continuing our series of deliverables on passive cooling and summer comfort with the publication of a new file to raise awareness of adaptation of buildings to global warming.

After several complete deliverables on the subject, the objective of this one is to facilitate, thanks to a work of synthesis, the comprehension via 3 levels of reading:

• Global warming: What are the challenges? Why is the adaptation of the building necessary today?
• Passive cooling: How can it be a solution for summer comfort? How to set it up?
• The user: What is its role? How to change its behaviour?

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The PTEC is oriented to contribute to 4 major current global challenges defined from the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals:

• Energy transition and decarbonization

• Digital transition

• Circular economy and industrialization

• Built environment geared towards user needs

Its objective is to provide a framework for the Spanish construction sector, its national evolution and its influence in Europe, especially highlighting the technological progress that the sector has developed in recent years, as well as the R & D & I priorities that it must develop. in order to maximize its socioeconomic and environmental impact, in addition to highlighting the work carried out by the PTEC as a network of understanding and collaboration in the Spanish construction sector at all levels (small, medium, large companies, technology centers and universities). To do this, it analyzes the evolution of the Construction sector in Spain, the specific role of the PTEC (mission, objectives, positioning), the keys to evolve in the sector.

This Positioning document also offers a vision of the R+D+i priorities to solve the global challenges of the sector (priority technological lines, promotion of innovation in construction and digital transformation of the sector) and the keys to its evolution.

PTEC intends to show not only its capabilities, but also its commitment to the European future of the construction sector, in which it intends to make valuable contributions and also grow with it.

PLATAFORMA TECNOLÓGICA ESPAÑOLA DE LA CONSTRUCCIÓN PTEC

C / Diego de León, 50 Madrid 28006

www.plataformaptec.es