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Cities are responsible for 80% of global energy consumption, 70% of total waste generation and 60% of greenhouse gas emissions of the planet. For this reason, measures need to be taken to transform cities into more sustainable, circular ecosystems.\r
The BINAFET project, in which the Construction Research and Innovation Group (GRIC) at the UPC participates, builds a strategy for integrating flows between buildings and urban agriculture (UA) as a key and necessary step for the ecological transition in cities. This integration with its smart management acts as a nature-based solution between a building and its greenhouse. Synergies are created between building needs to reduce the air temperature and CO\u2082 to a maximum, and the benefits of local resources and vegetation. Waste flows generated in the building (for example, CO\u2082, residual heat, residual water) and in UA can be redirected to improve the quality of indoor air, the building\u2019s and the greenhouse\u2019s energy efficiency, the crop yield and the local production of food. These flows will be managed in a smart way through predictive control and automatic learning, which will contribute to the digital transformation.\r
The BINAFET project proposes symbiotic interaction between buildings and urban agriculture to boost circularity, generate flows of residual heat, residual water and CO\u2082 to reduce energy consumption and contamination of urban water and to increase nutrient production and the local production of foods. This system is based on better air quality inside the building and the local, sustainable production of foods to improve health and people\u2019s quality of life. Making cities more sustainable is one of the planetary challenges of the twenty-first century and involves strategies to mitigate and adapt to climate change, increase energy efficiency and improve the management of natural resources and waste. The result will be a leading project in agricultural solutions integrated into smart and efficient buildings.\r
Participants in the project include a team of researchers at the Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTech (UPC) and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). The UPC team is comprised of members from the Construction Research and Innovation Group (GRIC) and the Miquel Agust\u00ed Foundation (FMA). GRIC is in charge of modelling the performance of the proposed agricultural system integrated into buildings, implementing a prototype of agricultural solutions integrated into smart buildings to demonstrate the BINAFET concept and analysing along with the UAB team the feasibility and functionality of the BINAFET concept in terms of scalability and sustainable performance.\r

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BINAFET has a duration of two years (November 2022 \u2013 November 2024). The budget for the UPC group is \u20ac149,500, which is funded by the Spanish State Research Agency of the Ministry of Science and Innovation and the EU Next Generation fund, through the State Programme to Promote Scientific-Technical Research and its Transfer (Strategic Projects Oriented towards the Ecological and Digital Transition) (Project TED2021-130047B-C22 funding by MCIN\/AEI\/10.13039\/501100011033 and by the European Union \u201cNextGenerationEU\u201d\/PRTR).
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