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...
The master’s thesis carried out in a company environment at BUILT CoLAB was presented in July. This thesis, by Emanuel Ferreira, was co-supervised by Luís Sanhudo, Head of Digital Transformation at BUILT CoLAB, together with António Arede and João Poças Martins from FEUP, the student’s teaching institution. The thesis is entitled ‘Monitoring a monument with...
Vanessa Tavares, from BUILT CoLAB, took part in one of the panel discussions at the event themed Maior Circularidade, which took place as part of the TECH4Sustainability initiative on 19 July in Porto. In this panel, Vanessa Tavares, together with Maria Ramalho from Casais and moderated by Castorina Vieira from FEUP, addressed the topic of...
BUILT CoLAB will be present at Congrega 2024 – the 1st Ibero-American Congress on Asset Engineering and Management and the 2nd Portuguese Congress on Asset Engineering and Management. The international event will take place in Lisbon between 3 and 5 July at the FIL Meeting Centre and will focus on Sustainable and Digital Innovation in...
BUILT CoLAB is one of the participants in the INTENT project – Intelligent health monitoring of road infrastructures using bender elements embedded in pavements. INTENT is a project funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) that aims to investigate the use of Bender Elements to monitor the condition of pavements. Currently, most pavement...
BUILT CoLAB, represented by Leonor Santos, attended the Conference and Matchmaking “Business Cooperation and the European Green Deal” organised by Innovation Norway, in partnership with the Directorate-General for Maritime Policy (DGPM) and the Secretariat-General for the Environment (SGA), which took place in Sofia, Bulgaria, on 4 and 5 June. The aim of the event was...
