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February 12, 2019Renewable Electrical Energy Systems (SEER UPC) is participating in the Sudoket project, to boost key Enabling Technologies -KETs for the construction of innovative buildings..
KETs can be applied in the construction sector to design and build innovative buildings that are more environmentally friendly, efficient, and competitive, with new and better features, to enhance quality of life. However, despite current regulations and technological advances, the construction sector still uses mainly conventional methods and technologies.
SUDOKET has four pilot projects to construct buildings in France, Spain and Portugal. The aim is to validate experimentally the advanced technological features used to construct innovative buildings, and to demonstrate the feasibility of using these features under real operating conditions.
In addition, SUDOKET promotes the research and development of new KET-based solutions in universities and research centres. Online collaborative information systems are developed such as KETpedia, to disseminate the state of the art in KETs, and KETcluster, an initiative designed to promote collaboration between agents (builders, manufacturers, designers, and technologists) by creating connections and synergies that help to improve the quality and competitiveness of the sector.
SUDOKET will contribute to boosting growth and Europe’s technological leadership of the innovative building sector. This will be achieved through a transnational, cutting-edge approach to the promotion of new technologies and the interaction between key agents in the value chain.
The project, with a budget of 2 million euros, will last 37 months and end in February 2021. In addition to SEER UPC, twelve participants are involved, including the Heat and Mass Transfer Technological Center (CTTC UPC), which is also a CIT UPC member.
The construction sector represents 10% of GDP in the EU and generates 20 million jobs. Buildings are responsible for 40% of energy consumption and 36% of CO2 emissions in Europe.
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- A research team from the UPC, in collaboration with the company B. Braun Surgical, has created a ceramic and biocompatible catalyst that captures greenhouse gases and transforms them into useful chemical products in a more sustainable way and at a lower cost than current technologies. The technology has successfully passed the pilot phase through joint projects with companies from different sectors.
- The company Trace ID and the group Twin Investors, in collaboration with the Textile Technology research group (TECTEX), which is part of the Institute of Textile Research and Industrial Cooperation of Terrassa (INTEXTER) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC), are developing electronic devices to identify, monitor, and study the traceability of the products in which they are embedded.
- The Hydrogeology Group (GHS) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC) is participating in the LIFE REMAR project to develop an innovative and sustainable solution for the reuse of treated wastewater through infiltration, with the aim of increasing the availability of freshwater resources and improving the state of ecosystems.
- A team from the Environment Centre Laboratory (LCMA) of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC) is taking part in a study commissioned by the city councils of la Llagosta, Mollet and Santa Perpètua (in Vallès Occidental), with the main objective of identifying the impact of industrial plants on the generation of unpleasant odours and continuously monitoring air quality in these municipalities.
