Project Summary:This project aims to provide a sustainable solution or an ecosystem for the construction industry across Europe for the design, development and validation of new material concepts for building facades. The core of the project consists of 9 Pilot Lines located in 7 EU countries and advancement and/or capable of handling different types of advancement. These pilot lines have responsibilities including separation and treatment of construction and demolition waste (CDW), nano-enabled multifunctional materials, development of sustainable materials and products, material characterization and modelling, monitoring and process control, environmental assessment, regulation and standardization, and innovation management. Pilot lines, in future, will be able to provide services to their customers, which do not have required infrastructure, with the services they provide.
Kansai Altan, for example, will develop functional coatings with nanomaterials with RISE in one of these pilot lines. Nanomaterials will be produced or supplied by RISE, and the prepared nanomaterials will then be dispersed in polymer systems proposed by Kansai Altan and tested in different types of coating systems and surfaces determined within the scope of the project and applications will be performed by Kansai Altan. When the desired performance of the coatings is achieved, large-scale applications will be carried in the demo sites determined for the project.
Scientific Output/Outcome Expected From the Project: The European Green Deal and Zero-Energy Buildings (nZEB) are becoming the new standard in Europe, efforts to reduce building materials and energy efficiency or related CO2 emissions are becoming increasingly important. Therefore, we need to accelerate our preparations for the transition to these programs in accordance with compliance laws and customer expectations.
Importance of the project in Tackling Global Challenges:The European Green Deal is a new development strategy aimed at transforming the EU by 2050 into a fair and prosperous society with no net greenhouse gas emissions and a modern, resource-efficient and competitive economy, where economic growth is decoupled from resource use. While protecting and developing the EU's natural capital, it also aims to protect the health and well-being of its citizens against environmental risks and impacts, for which the following objectives have been set:
- To provide clean, accessible and safe energy,
- Prompting industry for a clean and circular economy (an energy and resource efficient way to build and renovate, farm to fork: designing a fair, healthy and environmentally friendly food system)
- Zero pollution target for a toxin-free environment
- Accelerating the transition to sustainable and smart mobility
- Protecting ecosystems and biodiversity
Scientific/Social/Economic Innovative Contribution: The project promises to provide the optimization of material behavior and performance needed to significantly improve insulation capacity, energy performance, durability, maintenance cost and energy systems by using sustainable materials to achieve nZEB targets with the pilot lines to be installed. The application of a wide variety of nano-enabled materials (insulating to thermal storage properties) will enable a customizable element design for each building architectural style, optimizing and modernizing their efficiencies while enriching it with powerful, renewable energy generation properties, increasing its economic and aesthetic value, maintaining optimum operating parameters. Developing digital solutions for the analysis and planning of construction and renovation solutions will be the innovative aspect of the project.
Contribution to the Development of Professional Skills: As Kansai Altan, within the scope of this project, functional coating with nanomaterials will be developed and its contribution to energy efficiency will be seen within on site application.
