METABUILDING LABS

Acronym: METABUILDING LABS

Programme: European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme

Contract No.: 953193

Project implementation period of time: 01.01.2021 – 31.01.2026

ITB’s budget:  EUR 575 125,00

Coordinator on behalf of ITB: prof. ITB Michał Piasecki, PhD, DSc

Project Coordinator:

NOBATEK INEF 4, France

Partners:

EUROPEAN CONSTRUCTION, BUILT ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY EFFICIENT BUILDINGS TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM, Belgium

EUROPEAN ALUMINIUM, Belgium

EUROPEAN NETWORK OF LIVING LABS IVZW, Belgium

COMITE EUROPEEN DE COORDINATION DE L’HABITAT SOCIAL AISBL , Belgium

HORMIPRESA NEC SL, Spain

RISE RESEARCH INSTITUTES OF SWEDEN AB, Sweden

BUNDESANSTALT FUER MATERIALFORSCHUNG und PRUEFUNG, Germany

AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GmbH, Austria

ÉMI ÉPÍTÉSÜGYI MINŐSÉGELLENŐRZŐ INNOVÁCIÓS NONPROFIT KFT,  Hungary

INSTYTUT TECHNIKI BUDOWLANEJ (ITB), Poland

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY, Ireland

STEINBEIS INNOVATION GGMBH, Germany

CENTRE SCIENTIFIQUE ET TECHNIQUE DE LA CONSTRUCTION, Belgium

ECOWISE EKODENGE LIMITED, United Kingdom

LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Luxembourg

COVERIS, France

TERRELL , France

EDILIANS, France

POLY-OUVRAGES, France

MATERALIA, France

ARAMIS, France

OCTOPUSSY AGENCE POUR LA CREATION ET LA DIFFUSION D’ACTIVITES CULTURELLES ARTISTIQUES TECHNOLOGIQUES SCIENTIFIQUES, France

SVILUPPO TECNOLOGIE E RICERCA PER L’EDILIZIA SISMICAMENTE SICURA ED ECOSOSTENIBLE SCARL, Italy

R2M SOLUTION SRL, Italy

FEDERAZIONE DELLE COSTRUZIONI, Italy

CASA S.P.A, Italy

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI MEDITERRANEA DI REGGIO CALABRIA, Italy

ONYX SOLAR ENERGY SL, Spain

INDRA SOLUCIONES TECNOLOGIAS DE LA INFORMACION SL, Spain

FUNDACION CARTIF, Spain

FUNDACION IDONIAL, Spain

FUNDACION TEKNIKER, Spain

VIVIENDAS DEL PRINCIPADO DE ASTURIAS SA, Spain

UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAIS VASCO / EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA, Spain

FUNDACION PLATAFORMA TECNOLOGICA ESPANOLA DE LA CONSTRUCCION, Spain

EKODENGE MUHENDISLIK MIMARLIK DANISMANLIK TICARET ANONIM SIRKETI, Turkey

TC BASAKSEHIR BELEDIYESI – BASAKSEHIR MUNICIPALITY, Turkey

ARCELORMITTAL INNOVACION INVESTIGACION E INVERSION SL, Spain

IMPULSE PARTNERS, France

Short description:

METABUILDING LABS is a five-year Horizon 2020 EU-funded Innovation project whose main intention is to contribute to reach the Paris Climate Agreement (COP21) goal of “nearly-zero energy, zero emission buildings”.

A large consortium of 40 partners from 13 European countries have joined forces to provide European small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from the construction sector with easy access to a wide network of high value testing facilities allowing them to develop and test innovative envelope solutions for next generation buildings.

These testing facilities will be provided by:

• Research & Technology Organisations (RTOs)
• Living Labs
• Social Housing buildings

The METABUILDING LABS network of testing facilities will extend across the following countries:

Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, ITALY, Luxembourg, Poland, SPAIN, Sweden, Turkey

METABUILDING LABS project reaches out to SMEs and provides them with access to Open Innovation Testbeds (OITB) as part of a wider innovation support ecosystem, which will be of high value and tailored to their needs. Some SMEs, representing the main targeted stakeholder group, form part of the project consortium to collaborate in the specification and development of the OITB and its services, and to “test drive” their innovations. The OITB will help to accelerate SME innovation and allow SMEs to become competitive against big industry players.

In order to engage an ever-growing number of SMEs in innovation on a European scale, an OITB not only needs to create, organise and put to work technical and regulatory testing facilities and services, but should also deploy a sound and effective strategy to bring European SMEs into its ecosystem by means of metaclustering. The main idea behind the metaclustering concept is to maximize the outreach to up to 30.000 SMEs from all European regions through 12 Metaclusters that interconnect 180 existing European Clusters that will reach SMEs through a cascade communication methodology:

Metaclusters > European Clusters > National Platforms > Regional Clusters > SMEs

The METABUILDING LABS project is closely related to the H2020 project METABUILDING (G.A. Nº 873964), (www.metabuilding-project.eu), which started in June 2020. The METABUILDING project has put in place the first layer of this ecosystem by involving 6 target countries (which will now be extended to 13 European countries) and has created an Open Innovation Digital Platform for the innovation ecosystem of the construction sector. This platform will be consolidated and enlarged through METABUILDING LABS.

The metabuilding.com platform will serve as a virtual and ubiquitous Single-Entry Point to innovation support and services to the European construction ecosystem in general, and particularly to the Innovation testbed services, which are being developed within the METABUILDING LABS project.

This represents an ambitious twofold intent, which is strategically underpinned by the European Construction Technology Platform’s (ECTP) roadmap. Moreover, 21 of the ECTP’s members, including the ECTP itself, are partners in the METABUILDING LABS project themselves.

SECTORAL, REPLICATION AND EXPLOITATION OBJECTIVES

• Build up a future-proof, upgradable, competitive, sustainable, and inclusive European Innovation Ecosystem and OITB network.
• Stimulate investments in building-envelope innovations and new technologies by providing testbed evidence on material performance for companies and investors.
• Contribute to enhance the technical and environmental quality of EU building envelope products, through the harmonisation and streamlining of testing requirements.

SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL OBJECTIVES

• Unlock the potential of SMEs by getting access to prototyping, testing facilities, certification services and infrastructures to improve the quality of their products/solutions.
• Test user acceptance and environmental requirements of products and solutions in Living Labs.

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The project is co-financed by the Ministry of Education and Science under "Premia na Horyzoncie 2" instrument on the basis of contract no 512106 /PnH2/2021