Projects
•RockChain - Transversal technological skills for the ornamental rock industry focusing on the applicability of Blockchain in a Circular Economy (RockChain)
Project no.: Erasmus +KA220-HED 2023-1-DE-02-KA220-ADU-000166863
Implementation period: 2023 - 2027
Digital technologies will be the fundamental basis for economic and social development in the 21st century. That is why we must take full advantage of the potential that these new technologies offer for the benefit of a more sustainable economy, both for society and for the environment.
The RockChain project was born under this concept: to create a basic training base for vocational training students, technicians and professionals in the stone and construction sector and waste managers, in which the potential use of combining a novel technology such as Blockchain, the Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data in the management of waste from the stone industry is promoted.
In the EU, construction and demolition waste (CDW) accounts for approximately one third of all waste generated. This problem is aggravated when the treatment and management of this waste is not done properly, making it impossible for a large amount of it to be reintroduced into the value chain. Proper management of CDW and recycled materials, including correct handling of waste, can bring major benefits in terms of sustainability and quality of life. It can also bring major economic benefits to the EU construction and recycling industry by increasing the demand for recycled materials.
It is under this background that the concept of the circular economy and waste management appears as an important avenue of opportunity to change the model of production and consumption that has been in place since the previous industrial revolution.
This is where Blockchain technology will play an important role. The Blockchain technology was born to support and make work an electronic payment system, but nowadays, any sector can find advantages if it applies this technology properly, such as the insurance sector, health, transport and logistics, industry (waste management, product quality, process verification, etc.) and many others, because it can help them to improve the management of the company, and also to discover and exploit new business models.
Objectives:
- educate about Blockchaintechnology and begin to raise interest in it among students and professionals;
- provide technicians and workers in the stone sector tools for the management of waste derived from the industry, in order to determine its traceability for greater control of its management and value enhancement;
- encourage professionals and students to become entrepreneurs in the field of waste management and Blockchaintechnology, showing the potential that blockchain has in this aspect;
- make students and professionals in the stone and construction sector aware of the importance of construction waste management and its reintroduction into the value chain, in the search for meeting the Sustainable Developmentobjectives that the European Union has set as a goal;
- promote the development of a transparent, decentralized system of documentation follow-up, which covers from the beginning to the end of the waste management process, in order to store the information on the types of waste generated and to inventory them, in order to facilitate the process of reinsertion of these wastes into the value chain.
Parteners:
• RecoverIND - Ecological and innovative technologies for recovering industrial areas from LCA and Energy Efficiency point of view
Project no.: 2020-1-RO01-KA203-080223
Implementation period: 2020 - 2022
The rapidly growing world energy use has already raised concerns in developed and developing countries, the environmental regulations are becoming stricter and this is noted in the recent European Directives which aware the need for reducing environmental impacts and to increase energy efficiency. It is well known that the construction industry is one of the major responsible of the environmental damages, buildings construction sectors are responsible for 36% of the global final energy consumption and nearly 40% of total direct and indirect CO2 emissions, so to manage these is important to start to calculate these emissions and the environment impact for both new and existing buildings.
To contribute to overcome the situation described above, the main objectives are:
- Strengthen the awareness about the environmental impacts and climate change.
- Producing a useful tool for discerning between the suitability of rehabilitation or the rebuilding of an old industrial building.
- Introducing the new technologies of energetic rehabilitation in industrial buildings at educational level.
- Providing information among interdisciplinary of new technologies of data acquisition, BIM and LCA.
- Improving the energy efficiency of industrial buildings.
- Free access to OER platform of RecoverIND to agents involved in the construction sector (students, teachers, researchers, enterprises, AEC professionals, etc.).
The main results of the project are:
- Establishment of common learning outcomes on industrial areas restoration with new technologies, LCA and relative regulations.
- RecoverIND Interactive Flashcards.
- RecoverIND Open Education Rerource (OER).
Coordinator:
Partners:
- Asociación Empresarial de Investigación Centro Tecnológico del Mármol, Piedra y Materiales (España)
- Universidad de Sevilla (España)
- Asociatia Romania Green Building Council (Romania)
- Politechnika Poznańska (Poland)
- Fundatia pentru Formare Profesionala si Invatamant Preuniversitar Viitor (Romania)
- Zespol Szkol Budownictwa Nr 1. (Poland)
• CircularBIM - Educational platform focused on advanced strategies of reinstatement of building materials in the industrial value chain to promote the transition to the Circular Economy through the use of BIM learning technologies
Educational platform focused on advanced strategies for reintroducing construction materials into the industrial value chain to promote the transition to the circular economy through the use of BIM learning technologies
Nr. project: 2019-1-ES01-KA203-065962
Implementation period: 2019 - 2021
The CircularBIM project proposes the use of new BIM technologies (Building Information Modeling) and technologies for revaluation and reuse of construction materials to create a useful tool for both students and professionals in the field and those in public or administrative institutions, a tool that can be used in the current activities of design and control of buildings.
- raising awareness of the circular economy in the construction sector;
- new teaching / learning methods regarding the reduction of construction materials waste;
- providing information on the possibility of reusing construction elements;
- reducing waste from the construction sector by reintroducing it into the value chain;
- free access to tools for consulting and using techniques and methods of reusing building materials, including in BIM format;
- the involvement of students, but also of professionals in the field, in new technologies applicable in the construction sector, such as BIM applications.
Coordinator:
Universidad de Sevilla - Spain
Partners:
Centro Tecnológico del Mármol, Piedra y Materiales - Spain
Cype Soft SL - Spain
Centro Tecnológico da Ceramica e do Vidro - Portugal
Universidade do Minho - Portugalia
Transilvania University of Braşov - România
Asociația Romania Green Building Council - România
• BIMHealthy - Housing as a strategy for the promotion of health from an intersectoral and multidisciplinary approach
Project No.: 2019-1-ES01-KA203-065060
Implementation period: 2019 - 2021
The BIMhealthy project aims to develop interoperability between buildings and the health of their users to promote the realization of healthy housing as a global model, both in terms of the built environment and public health, by integrating new BIM technologies (Building Information Modeling) as tools design and control of buildings.
Objectives / Activities:
- comparative studies of the regulations applicable to the construction sector in the participating countries, which ensure health conditions for people living in those dwellings;
- comparative studies of specialized articles that correlate, based on scientific evidence, different environmental factors that may influence the health of people in homes;
- development of a guide for methods, design procedures and social habits for the promotion of healthy housing;
- creating a curriculum based on addressing the challenges between health and home safety, by integrating BIM methodologies as tools for building design and control;
- carrying out multiplication activities in partner institutions;
- design and social habits; housing as a health manager;
- promoting healthy housing as habitat models;
- the interactive methodology for learning the BIMhealthy tool applied to the construction sector.
Coordinator:
Fundación Univeritaria San Antonio - Spain
Partners:
Centro Tecnológico del Mármol, Piedra y Materiales – Spain
Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria y Biomédica de Alicante – Spain
Politechnika Warszawska - Poland
Datacomp spolka z ograniczona odpowiedzialnoscia – Poland
Transilvania University of Brasov - România
• BKSTONE - Higher Education–Enterprise platform for fostering, modernisation and sustainable growth in natural stone industry in Western Balkans
Project No.: 610483-EPP-1-2019-1-AL-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP
Implementation period: 2019 - 2022
The main objective of the BKSTONE project is to encourage the modernization and development of the building stone sector in the Western Balkans by strengthening the relationship between higher education institutions and construction production units. In order to develop in line with EU standards and requirements and to meet current needs and requirements, the stone industry must bring important changes in resource management, extraction and processing methods, quality control, while respecting international standards, methods marketing, marketing strategies, etc. These changes require the participation of all those involved in construction, namely higher education institutions (HEIs) and training and vocational training organizations (VETs), as well as private companies and public and administrative institutions.
Coordinator:
Universiteti Politeknik i Tiranes – Albania
Partners:
Universitet ”Aleksander Xhuvani” Elbasan – Albania
Universiteti "Eqrem Cabej" i Gjirokastrés – Albania
Univerzitet u Sarajevu – Bosnia and Herzegovina
University of Mostar – Bosnia and Herzegovina
Univerzitet Mediteran Podgorica Privatna Ustanova - Montenegro
Universiteti i Prishtines – Kosovo
Universiteti Nderkombetar per Biznes dhe Teknologji ubt Shpk – Kosovo
Universidade da Coruna - Spain
IES Ribeira Do Louro – Spain
Centro Tecnológico del Mármol, Piedra y Materiales - Spain
Universita degli Studi di Roma la Sapienza – Italy
C.P.I.P.E. – Italy
National Technical University of Athens – Greece
Transilvania University of Brasov – România
• UrbanBIM - Innovative educational integration of urban planning based on BIM-GIS technologies and focused on circular economy challenges
Project No.: 2018-1-RO01-KA203-049458
Implementation period: 2018 - 2020
http://urbanbim.eu
The UrbanBIM project aims to integrate BIM-GIS technologies and calculate total CO2 emissions in the field of post-use of buildings, taking into account the processes of the circular economy on urban planning and rehabilitation of buildings, in order to produce a useful learning tool through which students and professionals from the construction sector should be able to become aware and subsequently implement all these notions in daily activities.
Coordinator:
Transilvania University of Brașov – România
Partners:
Universidad de Sevilla – Spain
Centro Tecnológico del Mármol, Piedra y Materiales - Spain
Politechnika Warszawska - Poland
Datacomp spolka z ograniczona odpowiedzialnoscia – Poland
Asociația Romania Green Building Council - România
• OERCO2 - Innovative study on the life cycle analysis of construction materials
Project No.: 2016-1-ES01-KA203-025422
Implementation period: 2016 - 2018
http://oerco2.eu
The basic idea of OERCO2 is to create an open system of educational resources that includes data on how to calculate CO2 emissions for each phase of a construction work so that anyone can get a clear idea about the concept of "Carbon footprint" and be able to decide on the choice of the various variables involved in the design and execution of a construction.
Coordinator:
Universidad de Sevilla – Spain
Partners:
Transilvania University of Brașov – România
Centro Tecnológico del Mármol, Piedra y Materiales - Spain
CertiMaC Soc. Cons. a r. L. - Italia
Centro Tecnológico da Ceramica e do Vidro - Portugal
Asociația Romania Green Building Council - România
PROIECTE NAȚIONALE
• Supervision services, technical consultancy in order to implement Agreement no. 1/852019 Design and Execution of construction works and installations for 9 objects - Brașov International Airport - Ghimbav
Contract: 13360/23.10.2019
Implementation period: 2019 – 2020
The 9 objects are part of the third stage of the large-scale investment of Brașov-Ghimbav International Airport. The objectives of the contract were: evaluation of the designed technical solutions, in accordance with the specialized publications and technical regulations in force. In the second part of the contract, specialized reports will be drawn up after the completion and receipt of the proposed investment works. The project analyzed specialized documentation specific to civil buildings, roads, construction installations and networks related to runways.
• Research on the identification and design of optimal solutions for the modernization of painting workshops, plastics and fresh preheated air compensation installations at the Surface Treatments workshop. Beneficiary: S.C. IAR S.A. Ghimbav
Contract: 17969/27.12.2016
Implementation period: 2016 – 2017
The project consists of a study of solutions in order to optimize the lines of work that serve the maintenance and upkeep of helicopters. The project consisted of three stages:
- phase I - investigation and evaluation of the state of architectural-structural degradation of the building;
- phase II - solutions for architectural-structural rehabilitation of degraded areas / elements; evaluation of rehabilitation-protection-finishing works for the investigated building;
- phase III - preparation of the scientific research report.
During the project, several topics were addressed, such as: evaluating the resistance capacity and identifying solutions to restore the level of safety in operation for the pillars of a ground floor industrial building, optimizing ventilation solutions in the space with controlled temperature and humidity.
• Research on the identification and design of the optimal solution for a mixed, annular and branched water supply system with operation in industrial operation. Beneficiary: S.C. IAR S.A. Ghimbav
Contract: 16250/18.11.2016
Implementation period: 2016 – 2017
• Research on the identification and design of optimal solutions for functional modification of a space in: “Workshop for pickling aircraft structures and simple parts”. Beneficiary: S.C. IAR S.A. Ghimbav
Contract: 8016/14.07.2015
Implementation period: 2015
• Research on the assessment of the state of degradation of a production building, for Surface Treatments, exposed to chemical aggression of the operating environment. Identification and proposals for structural rehabilitation solutions. Beneficiary: S.C. IAR S.A. Ghimbav
Contract: 16203/11.12.2014
Implementation period: 2014 - 2015
