INFINITE project
INFINITE project
Concept:
The EU’s building stock is relatively old. Half of all homes in most EU countries were built pre-1970 and before the first thermal regulations.
This is why upgrading the energy efficiency of the building envelope – the physical barrier between indoor and unconditioned environment – is important.
The EU-funded INFINITE project will pave the way for the decarbonisation of the EU building stock by facilitating the uptake of all-in-one industrialised envelope technologies by the market.
INFINITE's approach for deep renovation of buildings will result in both cost and time reduction, with attention to the life cycle perspective and the design for assembly and disassembly, including end-of-life residual value as well as construction and demolition waste.
Objectives:
INFINITE aims at increasing the market penetration of industrialized all-in building envelope kits for the deep renovation, as competitive, reliable, stakeholders-accepted and life-cycle-based sustainable approach contributing to decarbonization of the EU building stock.
INFINITE will work to narrow the gap towards the full adoption of an industrialized renovation approach developing a set of multi-user and multi-disciplinary tools, and all-in-one industrialised envelope technologies, based on robust business, meeting the demand side requirements, by keeping the focus on final users and all the stakeholders in the value-chain.
The INFINITE development drivers are:
- Cost and timing reduction,
- Life Cycle perspective,
- Design for assembly and disassembly, considering end-of-life residual value and the Construction-Demolition-Waste topics,
- Low carbon impact materials adoption,
- Stakeholders-centered approach to assure concept acceptance.
Moreover, INFINITE will setup an open structured knowledge hub and an organized network of entities as hard-facts based dissemination, for the demonstration of the coupling of digital and industrialised approach.
Thanks to INFINITE, EU construction sector can take the chance to move forward towards a long-lasting decarbonisation of the building stock, exploiting the advantages of the “Renovation4.0” (industrialisation + digitalisation) as new generation of industrialised renovation process.
The underpinned ground-breaking technologies, tools and business models, will impact the whole value-chain, being able to trigger the deep renovation market activation.
Demo-cases can validate the mentioned Renovation4.0 approach, while the consortium already well-established commercial channels in EU that will facilitate an extensive replication potential
Participants:
- HUYGEN INGENIEURS & ADVISEURS B.V
- GREENDELTA GMBH
- REBUILD S.R.L.
- GRUNSTATTGRAU FORSCHUNGS- UND INNOVATIONS-GMBH
- ONE TEAM SRL
- NOBATEK INEF 4
- Others
Start date: 1 November 2020 - End date: 30 April 2025