BUILT CoLAB carried out an ex-post evaluation of two projects to decarbonise Mota-Engil’s industrial plants for the production of bituminous mixtures, located in Famalicão and Montemor-o-Novo, following on from the ex-ante evaluation carried out in 2022. The ex-ante assessment was carried out as part of the respective applications under Call for Proposals No. 02/C11-i01/2022 –...
Two Master’s theses, carried out in a business environment at BUILT CoLAB, were recently defended. On the European Master’s programme MBUILD – Sustainable Design, Construction and Management of the Built Environment, at FEUP: Tese: “Development of a Lightweight End-to-End Scan-to-BIM Framework for Construction and Model Quality Assessment” Aluno: Bastian Stevanus Situmorang; Orientação: João Pedro Poças...
João Moutinho, Director of BUILT CoLAB, attended InnoTrans 2026, which took place last week in Berlin. Over the course of the event, João Moutinho had the opportunity to engage with a range of organisations, companies and international institutions that are promoting a more sustainable, digital and resilient future for infrastructure construction. At this event, as...
BUILT CoLAB celebrated its 6th anniversary on 18 September! This was an opportunity to bring the team together and strengthen bonds through a team-building activity, during which staff had the chance to work together to implement strategies. A number of members also attended this event, during which a review was given of the six years...
The BUILT CoLAB team is currently involved in four working groups organised by buildingSMART Portugal, contributing to the development of standards, content and resources designed to support the consistent adoption of BIM and BIM-LCA methodologies within the Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Operations (AECO) sector. This involvement forms part of BUILT CoLAB’s strategy to promote the...
BUILT CoLAB collaborated with EPOS on the development of an immersive training platform based on interactive 360° videos, designed to bring technical training closer to the real-world conditions encountered in underground environments. Available for virtual reality devices, such as the Meta Quest 3, and for Android, the solution was developed using content captured in a...
At the end of June, the first integrated prototype and demonstrator for the CRIARTE project was carried out at the experimental testbed, with the aim of validating the process of installing sandwich panels on 6-metre-high façades, under conditions representative of a real construction site and incorporating the technologies developed by the consortium partners, in both...
João Moutinho, Director of BUILT CoLAB, attended the Science and Innovation 2026 Conference, held on 15 and 16 July at the Lisbon Congress Centre. This year, under the theme ‘Preparing for the Future’, the event brought together the scientific community, businesses, public bodies and European partners for a wide-ranging debate on the strategic priorities that...
BUILT CoLAB has concluded its participation in Agenda Sustainable Stone, having transferred the digital developments created throughout the project to the CESMINERAL Hub – Centre for Research into Mineral Resources, in Porto de Mós, thereby ensuring their continuity and accessibility to the natural stone sector. Among the key outcomes now available is the Moodle platform,...
The first “Study on the socio-economic impact of Collaborative Laboratories (CoLABs) in Portugal” was presented at Porto Business School. This study concludes that the network generated €261.6 million in Gross Value Added between 2021 and 2025 and supported 2,178 direct, indirect and induced jobs. Over the same period, every euro of public funding channelled to...
