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BUILT CoLAB took part in the 1st Meeting of Civil Engineers – Innovation and Sustainability, organized by the Regional Council of the College of Civil Engineering – North, which took place at FEUP – Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto on October 27. Vanessa Tavares, Head of Sustainability, was a speaker at the...

BUILT CoLAB, as the Sectoral Standardization Body (ONS) responsible for coordinating TC 197 – BIM, informs that the vote on the translations carried out to transpose the EN ISO 19650 standard into a Portuguese Standard (NP) is underway. This international standard, dedicated to information management through BIM, has been preliminarily translated into its parts: This...

Vanessa Tavares do BUILT CoLAB participou no 1º Workshop – Parte 2 “Creating a Roadmap towards Circularity in the Built Environment – State-of-the-Art”, da ação COST “CircularB – Implementation of Circular Economy in the Built Environment”, que decorreu em Córdoba entre 12 e 14 de setembro. The aim of this workshop was to develop the...

BUILT CoLAB celebrated its third anniversary on September 16. To mark the date, it brought together all the employees from the Porto and Lisbon offices for a picnic in Porto’s city park, promoting conviviality among everyone. This third year of activity was marked by the conclusion of structuring projects for the AEC sector – REV@CONSTRUCTION,...

The “Interface Mission”, a new phase of basic funding for collaborative laboratories such as BUILT CoLAB, began in June. The aim of this project is to guarantee basic public funding to strengthen the network of interface institutions defined in the current legal framework, approved by Decree-Law no. 63/2019 of May 16, commonly known as the...

BUILT CoLAB is starting to develop its tasks in the Mobilizing Agenda “Sustainable Stone by Portugal”, in which it participates. This Agenda aims to leverage the work that has been done in the Natural Stone Sector to create a new generation of highly disruptive and innovative products and production processes that will strengthen the sector’s...

BUILT COLAB co-organized with WATER CO-RE COLAB the thematic session “The Water-Energy Nexus at the heart of environmental sustainability”, which took place during the Science 2023 Meeting, held in Aveiro on July 6 and 7. The session sought to put into perspective and debate the importance of promoting a digital and environmental transition of the...

BUILT CoLAB, through João Poças Martins, represented the REV@CONSTRUCTION Mobilizing Project at the second International Conference on Construction, Energy, Environment and Sustainability – CEES, which took place between June 27 and 30 in Funchal. Organized by Itecons, in collaboration with the National Research Council of Canada’s (NRC) Construction Research Centre, the event brought together professionals...

The Conference “The Digital Construction Revolution in Portugal” was held on June 27, marking the end of the REV@CONSTRUCTION Mobilizer, a project with the participation of BUILT CoLAB. During the session, the main people responsible for the work carried out throughout the project – Francisco Reis and João Ribeiro (BIMMS), António Aguiar Costa (IST), Luís...

João Moutinho and Marco Pedroso, from BUILT CoLAB, took part in the closing session of the R2CS – Circular Network for Sustainable Construction project, which took place at Gaiurb’s premises on June 6th. During the event Marco Pedroso, Head of Sustainability, presented the pilot project ‘Glossary for sustainability and circularity in the built environment’, a...