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...
BUILT CoLAB will be attending the 6th ptBIM – Portuguese Building Information Modelling Congress, which will take place from 17 to 19 June at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto. Throughout this event, which is a leading event in this field in Portugal, Luís Sanhudo, Pedro Ferreira, Nycolas Glerean, Hélder Silva and Luís Jacques...
BUILT CoLAB provided specialist technical support to the Digital Fabrication Lab (DFL) at the Nuno Portas Study Centre (CENP) of the Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto (FAUP), in the development of a Quality Assessment Platform for Modular Construction Projects, as part of the R2U Technologies project, funded by the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR)....
BUILT CoLAB, in partnership with CESAM – the Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies at the University of Aveiro – and as part of the ODESSA project, has developed an open-source WebGIS platform for forecasting hospital admissions associated with respiratory diseases and other non-communicable diseases linked to exposure to air pollution, with an initial focus...
On 5 May 2026, the plenary meeting of TC 197 – BIM, the Technical Committee for Building Information Modelling Standardisation, took place at LNEC. The meeting was coordinated by BUILT CoLAB in its capacity as the Sectoral Standardisation Body (SSB). The meeting was held in a hybrid format and enabled members of Technical Committee 197...
The application period for the 2026 BIM Excellence Award is open until June 12. This is an initiative by CT 197 – BIM, in partnership with BUILT CoLAB and PTPC/Cluster AEC, which aims to promote and advance the digitalisation and implementation of BIM methodology at a national level by disseminating and promoting best practices, particularly...
As part of the DIGITALbuilt project, BUILT CoLAB offers a ‘Test Before Invest’ service for software used to assess the environmental impact of buildings. This service enables companies to trial and evaluate software in a test environment supported by experts, allowing them to explore the tool’s features for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and the calculation...
