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BUILT CoLAB and APA – Portuguese Environment Agency co-organized yesterday a Capacity Building Action in the scope of the Circular Agreement with the Construction Industry, dedicated to the topic “Construction and demolition waste management: what has changed? What is new?”. This Training Action aimed to support the application of the new regulations and promote a...

BUILT CoLAB organised yesterday another Workshop in the scope of the Circular Agreement with the Construction Industry, this time dedicated to the topic “How to move from theory to action in the incorporation of recycled materials in the Construction sector”. This Workshop aims to internalise knowledge that enables companies under current conditions to incorporate recycled...

António Aguiar Costa, RD&I Director of BUILT CoLAB, is one of the jury members of the National Award for Innovative and Sustainable Public Procurement, which is promoted by APMEP – Portuguese Association for Public Procurement. This award aims to distinguish the best national practices in the application of the new culture of innovation and sustainability...

BUILT CoLAB organised yesterday the first Workshop that took place in the framework of the Circular Agreement with the Construction Industry, dedicated to the topic “Circular economy: life cycle view (LCA) from design to deconstruction of the construction site, the role of construction site owners”. This workshop aimed to internalize knowledge to comply with the...

The 10th Strategic Forum of PTPC – Portuguese Technological Platform for Construction / AEC Cluster took place on December 15th, with the theme “TWIN TRANSITION in the AEC Sector – Digitalization | Digital Twin & Sustainability | Circularity”. This event, which also marked the 10 years of PTPC, had a diverse panel that discussed the...

BUILT CoLAB has just been recognized by IPQ, the Portuguese Quality Institute, as a Sectorial Standardization Body (ONS). This attribution of responsibility makes BUILT CoLAB, from now on, the entity responsible for the coordination of CT 197, the Technical Committee for Standardization (CT) of Building Information Modelling (BIM). In addition to the coordination of the...

BUILT CoLAB, represented by Rita Moura, attended the 9th Annual Conference of ECTP – The European Construction, built environment and energy efficient building Technology Platform, which this year had the theme “The EU Construction Industry at the heart of the Green and Digital Transitions” and took place on December 2nd and 3rd, in Madrid. Rita...

The Mobilizing Agenda “Construction Industrialization – From ‘construction site’ to ‘factory’, a new paradigm of the sector for the 21st century” in which BUILT CoLAB participates was, on November 29, 2021, evaluated with “Very Good” and thus passed to the second phase of scrutiny. This agenda, resulting from a contest of ideas for the RRP,...

DIGITALbuilt, the collaborative initiative of the Architecture, Engineering and Construction Cluster (AEC), the Portuguese Railway Platform Cluster (PFP), ACPMR – Portugal Mineral Resources Cluster Association, Itecons Interface Centre, Ferrovia Competence Centre, StoneCITI, BUILT COLAB, FI GROUP and FNWAY, was recognized as a Digital Innovation Hub. This recognition means that it will provide, in a “one-stop-shop”...

BUILT CoLAB organized yesterday, November 11th, the Formal Kick-off Conference of REV@CONSTRUCTION – “Digital Construction Revolution”, the Mobilizing Project for the AEC sector that it coordinates. The online event, focused on the digital transformation of the AEC sector, sought to present to the nearly 200 participants not only the project’s objectives, but also the main...