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Applications for the BIM 2021 Excellence Award, an award created by CT197-BIM, the Bim National Technical Commission for Standardization, are open, and this year with the support of BUILT CoLAB, and Cluster AEC/PTPC. The BIM Excellence Award aims to enhance and promote the digitization and implementation of BIM at the national level through the dissemination...

ACA Group is the new member of BUILT CoLAB with the unanimous approval of BUILT CoLAB members present at the 3rd General Meeting of the Association. The company, founded in 1982, is today one of the most relevant Portuguese and international players in the construction sector. Focused on dynamic, innovative, and ambitious management, the ACA...

Today, March 4th,  we celebrate the UNESCO World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development. This date, established at the 40th UNESCO General Conference in 2019 and marked since 2020, is an opportunity to distinguish the achievements of engineers and engineering in the modern world, as well as to promote a better public understanding of how engineering...

Today, February 26, the Consortium Agreement and the Terms of Acceptance were signed, marking the beginning of the Project Digital Construction Revolution – Rev@Construction, which intends to implement a digital revolution in the AEC sector. The digitization of the AEC sector in Portugal is increasingly necessary to address competitiveness and productivity challenges at the international...

An application submitted to the “Notice 01/2020 – Recognition of Digital Innovation Hub and access to the European Network” is under evaluation for the creation of DIGITALbuilt, a Digital Innovation Hub that unifies three sectors in the theme of the Built Environment: Architecture, Engineering and Construction, Mineral Resources and Railway. The three Clusters thus came...

BUILT CoLAB aims to support national companies in their evolution towards digitization and implementation of processes that make them more efficient, competitive, and sustainable. For this, it has a team available to provide R&D services adaptable to the needs of companies, and that fall within the scope of SIFIDE – the System of Tax Incentives...

Margarida Amândio, AI Researcher of BUILT CoLAB, will be one of the speakers at the virtual conference “Artificial Intelligence in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AI in AEC) 2021”, which will take place on March 24 and 25. Margarida Amândio’s intervention is scheduled for March 25, at 2:50 p.m., in the Autonomous Construction panel, where the...

The applications for the 1st call “SEED” of the METABUILDING project has a new deadline! The call will remain open until February 26! We recall that METABUILDING has available up to 5000€ for innovative SMEs, whose innovation processes have application in the construction sector and with application in the areas of additive manufacturing, circular economy,...

BUILT CoLAB is one of the entities that participate in the Working Groups of the Portuguese Commission of Geotechnics in Transport. Its presence aims to analyze the theme Digitization in The Geotechnics of Transport. BUILT CoLAB is represented by Paulo Fonseca (Executive Director) and will have the intervention of the AI Team (Artificial Intelligence team),...

BUILT CoLAB participated in the preparation of one of the new Manuals of Ecological Criteria for Public Procurement, published under the National Strategy for Ecological Public Procurement – ENCPE 2020, with the contribution of Paulo Fonseca, Executive Director, who also represented the AEC Cluster. This collaboration focused on the Manual “Conceção, construção, reabilitação e conservação...