Scope:

The project aims to integrate innovative tools, products, and techniques for construction and renovation, focusing on extending building service life and enabling adaptability, reuse, and deconstruction within a circular economy framework.

Proposal Requirements:

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Proposals must:

• Validate construction and renovation solutions integrating innovative tools and methods that facilitate deconstruction and reuse, based on life-cycle approaches.

• Ensure solutions address adaptability and reversibility of buildings to changing uses and surroundings.

• Improve the ease of reuse and recycling of construction elements and products.

• Develop disassemblable and reusable building elements, including those made from CO2-storing materials and innovative lower emission materials.

• Address all building components, including structural elements, envelopes, interior fixtures, fittings, and technical systems.

• Be rooted in local and regional value chains, with participative approaches for social acceptability.

• Flexibly adapt to local/regional sourcing of innovative products and materials.

• Address climate change mitigation and minimise emissions, pollution, and biodiversity loss.

• Validate solutions in a relevant environment, covering residential and non-residential projects across at least two countries with diverse climates.

• Involve local and regional value chains, particularly SMEs, and increase innovation buy-in from users.

• Provide clear, measurable indicators of improvements due to the solutions.

• Deliver guidance and recommendations for technology providers, regulatory authorities, and standardisation bodies, and promote the demonstrated approaches.

• Contribute to standardisation and regulatory evolutions fostering reuse and deconstruction of building materials and products.

• Report results to the Built4People partnership and contribute to its network of innovation clusters.

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Specific Conditions:

Activities are expected to achieve Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 5-6 by the end of the project.

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