Seed Call Winners

The SEED call intended to support SMEs to validate technical, economical and intellectual property aspects of project ideas and innovation opportunities. The aim was to increase the innovation potential of the construction sector through cross-sectoral and/or cross-border collaboration.

SMEs from the following countries participated in the SEED call and have received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No. 873964.

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Winners from Austria

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Winners from France

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Winners from Hungary

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Winners from Italy

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Winners from Spain

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Winners from Portugal

SEED CALL winners from AUSTRIA

AutARC-Construct

Adapting an industrial shop-floor application to accelerate and secure collaboration between workers and robots in the construction industry.

Disintegration of Fungal Growth

Presenting innovative straw-based construction materials for insulation or sandwich wall construction to create a composite, which works out without additional adhesive.

Energiedigital

Using expertise and experience from real-estate companies to help estate projects implement energy communities.

EU Carbon Credit

Accelerating climate-friendly buildings and nature-based solutions in Europe by calculating and optimising their net climate impacts to create a huge data and knowledge base.

Green Roofs

Determining the feasibility of mounting the greening modules on buildings will enable a fully comprehensive customer service from certified planning to final assembly.

HVAC Systems in BIM

Enabling an 80 % reduction in the planning time and up to 20 % less energy consumption during the building's lifecycle through the autonomous configuration of suited HVAC systems.

Mobile Heating Units

Providing customers with targeted and timely information about the state of the concrete slab heating process to improve the construction process.

Products for Hardwood Sector

Introducing a novel band saw technology to increase the share of solid wood in the construction sector.

Recyclable 3D Printed Mould

Developing a 3D printed recyclable formwork based on Selective Binder Activation High-Speed 3d printing technology to reduce the carbon footprint in the construction industry.

Robotic Solutions

Evaluating market acceptance and using cases for mobile construction robots to increase efficiency and safety on construction sites.

Smart Sensors

Creating an intelligent sensor which measures, analyses, and documents the indoor climate to help to improve the well-being inside rooms avoiding high costs for renovations due to damages, and increasing the lifespan of buildings.

Water Cleaning & Retention Ways

Producing water-bound and solid road surfaces, using natural materials to achieve less permanently sealed areas.

SEED CALL winners from FRANCE

AI Solutions to Prevent Accidents

Developing auditing and coaching artificial intelligence solutions to detect risky situations to help to propose corrective actions and eradicate accidents at work.

Biosourced Telecom Pylons

Producing a bio-sourced telecom pylon made up of excavated ground to help to recycle a natural resource and offer elegant structures fitting perfectly into rural and urban landscapes.

Building Plans in 2D & 3D

Developing a digital application that performs on-site control to be able to transmit real field data for an accurate update of the digital twin in an efficient way.

Circularity of Construction Waste

Developing a set of digital innovative solutions for construction companies to increase the Comprehensive Ranking System (CSR) score of the construction companies and to decrease CO2 emissions.

Green Wall Solution

Developing a green wall solution made from recycled textiles with an autonomous and intelligent watering system to transform end-of-life textile waste into a culture support slab.

Marine Building Materials

Transforming sediments accumulated in harbours into new products for design and architecture to have an environmental impact by initiating the development of an onshore recovery sector.

Marketplace of Reused Material

Providing a digital platform allows connecting a reused materials database with its users in an automated way to encourage citizen engagement.

Reduced Carbon Emissions

Providing solutions to up-cycle existing infrastructures and drastically reducing wastes generated by necessary demolition operations to enable property holders to reduce their carbon footprint.

Renting Reusable Offices

Developing a platform for renting and fitting out reusable offices by simplifying the layout of workspaces to reduce the amount of material landfill and CO2 footprint of buildings.

Renting Reusable Offices

Creating and operating office space by building partnerships between landlords, tenants, and manufacturers, offering a sustainable and rental-based approach to the fit-out process to reduce the amount of material landfill and CO2 footprint.

Simplified Renovation Process

Implementing BIM-oriented strategies to anticipate the amount of work and costs of the renovation process, using nature-based prefabricated solutions.

Timber Construction System

Proposing an innovative, fully removable and reusable timber construction system, offering freedom of design and comfort in assembly and the possibility of complete disassembly and reuse at the end of the building’s lifecycle.

SEED CALL winners from HUNGARY

Augmented Reality Technology

Analysing the possibilities and conditions needed for the implementation of AR technology from a technical and financial point of view to become more innovative in the buildings industry.

Clouds for Smart Buildings

Developing a cloud-based data storage and management service to offer new functionality not only in the planning phase of building infrastructure but also during the maintenance period.

Green-Roof Technology 2.0

Offering an eco-friendly and faster-to-implement technology for creating a feasible natural environment, providing 100% protection to insulation.

Intelligent Window System

Focussing on an easy-to-install system to significantly improve the energy efficiency of a window in both winter and summer, cutting the heat loss to half by significantly increasing the thermal resistance.

SEED CALL winners from ITALY

Circularity for Clay Roof Tiles

Developing an operative protocol of microstructural tests to monitor clay roof tiles’ durability. The longer building materials last, the lower the consumption of energy and natural raw materials are.

Cladding System

Designing Insulating panels preassembled into a 3D wire rod reinforcement cage to ensure thermal insulation and avoid external wall overturning caused by seismic actions in reinforced concrete frame building.

Climate Proof Construction

Designing a tool to integrate the effects of climate change in the design and maintenance processes of buildings, by enhancing the adaptive potential and reducing the vulnerability of buildings through a better-informed decision-making process.

Recycled Aggregate Concrete

Proposing an optimized and integrated design approach for structural cementitious construction materials incorporating recycled aggregates from Construction & Demolition Waste to enhance sustainability in the construction sector.

Robotic Automation

Introducing an agile robot in the performance of engineering and architectural design activities to identify an innovative working method to be tested in different situations, to avoid risk factors, and to improve people’s safety.

SEED CALL winners from PORTUGAL

3D Printing Huts

Designing and building low emissions ecological huts using 3D printing technology and local soils as the main raw material to provide an innovative solution for the region and the country, where the construction sector needs efficiency and sustainability.

AEC's Drone Services

Developing a roadmap for cloud point extraction from image data streams in the scope of a fixed camera and drone photography to reach building owners, construction developers, construction companies and project managers.

Data Exchange

Integrating an Openbook office management system, with its building design division, to enhance the workflow of assigning products in BIM models, to connect a common database, while promoting recyclability and circularity reporting.

Drone Surveillance in Construction

Gathering information via drone surveillance for more accurate proposals and management to decrease the uncertainty and lack of knowledge on the construction site prior and during construction.

Evolving into Digital Enterprises

Improving construction decision-making and KPIs assessment, developing a properly organised quality construction data warehouse and providing an executive digital dashboard to help advance regional development and economic progress.

Hot Water Intelligent Management

Using an intelligent Domestic Hot Water management system that transforms the data of buildings and internal processes into useful information to make the investments profitable.

Hybrid Management Platform

Offering A hybrid platform for construction cost and environmental impact management to help clients achieve optimised results in collaborative environments regarding national and regional developments.

Management for Hydraulic Sector

Sourcing and sharing real-time applications to allow to automatically acquire, share and control data and parameter settings about work progress, and to ensure optimized management, which is an important advantage for SMEs towards digital transformation.

Potential of Concrete 3D Printing

Providing 3D printing with cement allows materializing of complex patterns and shapes in a fast way to maximize the potential of the printing.

Satellite Observation Technology

Applying satellite earth observation technology to architecture and engineering project design to minimize the R&D costs and democratize access to these technologies.

Services for Civil Engineering

Exploring the PointCloud4BIM application commercially, which is useful for different stakeholders in the AEC sector, to achieve competitive advantages and to boost the creation of this kind of digital tool.

Sustainable Sewer Facilities

Developing powerful digital tools to assist sewer facilities to become more economic and environmentally sustainable through accurate real data acquisition, to comply with environmental best practices to recycle water, and to upcycle novel bio-products.

SEED CALL winners from SPAIN

3D Printing Calcium Silicates

Developing sustainable and high technology engineered building materials based on hydrated calcium silicates by means of 3D printing for thermal and sound insulating components with low-carbon consumption.

3D Printing Machinery & Materials

Developing a constructive system (materials, techniques, tools, procedures and equipment) to print up to 4 floors on-site with an 85% reduction in waste generation, noise, dust and emissions.

Autonomous Irrigation System

Implementing green walls with an autonomous irrigation system to be able to condense the room humidity to get the necessary water, and eliminate the requirement of a water supply.

Blockchain for Traceability

Assessing the feasibility of the blockchain technology for being applied to machinery-rental business as well as to size the technical and economic scope of further developments to bring this idea to a first demonstrator.

Blockchain in Construction Sector

Reducing costs and time by analysing which construction processes might be subject to implementing Smarts Contracts, defining its future implementation and evaluation, and benefiting companies and hired people.

Concrete Electrical Resistivity

Developing a portable device to measure concrete electrical resistivity by means of accurately defined measuring techniques in order to use electrical resistivity as an indicator for two purposes.

Construction Waste Furniture

Giving a second life to plastic and metal waste from the construction sector by returning the waste generated by the city to the city again to offer eco-designed and sustainable urban furniture products.

Digital Solution for Engineering

Developing a digital solution for the civil engineering sector to facilitate the online monitoring and management of concrete elements and structures through providing reliable data-driven decisions in real-time.

Energy Efficient Foams

Showing highly improved passive fire safety foams to reduce flammability and slower fire propagation, avoiding the emission of toxic smoke. This means a reduction of 50% of the energy consumption of buildings while increasing fire safety.

Lignocellulosic Chemicals

Studying the feasibility of developing new lignocellulosic speciality chemicals for wood-based construction materials with flame retardant and antimicrobial properties

Seafood for Thought

Introducing a regenerative and circular business model for construction products to activate local economy and ecosystems through the valorisation of the urban bio-waste creating construction products in addition to utilising local and innovative manufacturing techniques.

Self-navigating Drones

Producing self-navigating thermographic drones for rapid building envelope audits to identify problem areas in building facades at large speed.

Smart Cluster Building System

Performing a feasibility study for a system called Smart Cluster Building oriented to maximize the energy efficiency in buildings as well as to ensure the optimal indoor air quality.

Solutions for New Buildings

Proposing a new concept in the design and management of a building all over its shelf-life to decrease CO2 emissions, involving the use of Big Data tools from the very beginning of the construction process.

Traceability in Granite Industry

Presenting a software-based solution to solve the traceability of granite products by addressing the colour detection directly to the granite and to reduce human errors and waste significantly.