Vanessa Tavares, Head of Sustainability at BUILT CoLAB, was one of the speakers at the Symposium ‘Sustainable Materials and Innovative Construction Technologies in Portugal’, which was organised by CCILA – the Portuguese-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry and took place on 15 October in Lisbon. The event, which was attended by around 80 people, aimed...
October 14th is World Standardisation Day! BUILT CoLAB, as the ONS – Sector Standardisation Body responsible for coordinating CT 197 BIM, joins IPQ – Portuguese Quality Institute in celebrating this date, which aims to highlight the importance of standardisation and reinforce the commitment to promoting and using standards in Portugal. To mark the date, the...
BUILT CoLAB recently established a partnership with Blufab and TopBIM, part of the Casais Group, to drive innovation and digitalisation in the modular construction sector in Portugal. As part of this collaboration, BUILT CoLAB is developing BIM support software that aims to optimise modular construction processes, providing more efficiency and precision at every stage of...
BUILT CoLAB is the first Built4People Innovation Cluster (B4PIC) in Portugal. The agreement formalising its entry into this network of clusters was signed on 23 September during the Built4People Stakeholder Forum 2024 at the European Convention Centre in Luxembourg, where BUILT CoLAB was represented by the Head of Sustainability, Vanessa Tavares, and the Director, João...
Vanessa Tavares, Head of Sustainability at BUILT CoLAB, took part in the working group meeting and 3rd meeting of the management committee of the COST CircularB action, which took place between 11 and 13 September in Istanbul, Turkey. The aim of this event was to discuss the work carried out so far by the different...
BUILT CoLAB celebrated its 4th anniversary on 20 September! To mark another year of activity, and as has become customary, this was a time for the team to come together, with the organisation of teambuilding activities such as a Peddy Paper around Porto, lunch and a social party in the office, and we also had...
In recent months, BUILT CoLAB has been hosting internships for international students in a business environment. The French students, Romain Colleau and Mathilde Andre, and the German students, Jan-Philipp Binz and Matthias März, came to BUILT CoLAB with degrees in architecture and civil engineering, and under different agreements, with the common goal of gaining experience...
BUILT CoLAB is organising a Cycle of Training Actions on Contaminated Soils and Rocks. This initiative follows on from the protocol it established with APA – Agência Portuguesa do Ambiente (Portuguese Environment Agency) and the Fundo Ambiental (Environmental Fund) with the aim of promoting a series of actions within the scope of the ‘Soil Quality...
BUILT CoLAB will host and co-supervise 3 PhD students with scholarships awarded by the FCT to carry out their studies in a non-academic environment: Elis Ribeiro, Jaime Cunha and Ahmed Ashour. The applications were developed in close collaboration between the students and their supervisors, based on the core skills of the BUILT CoLAB team. Work...
BUILT CoLAB took part in five Design Thinking sessions organised by ADENE in July, with the aim of co-creating the ECE – Citizen Energy Space, in collaboration with companies and entities from various sectors of industry, as well as several local entities. In this process BUILT CoLAB was represented by Vanessa Tavares in the sessions...
