Project Aim: DeCO2 aims to address the compelling need for advancing innovative technological applications and solutions on the built environment, focusing on building elements, materials, products, and technologies. The project also aims to set up solid and long-lasting partnerships within the legal and regulatory framework and other stakeholders addressing the whole value chain forsocio-economic innovation, facilitating to close the performance and design-to-market gap, including for historical and cultural heritage buildings.
Objectives per Work Package:
WP1: The main objective of WP1 is to coordinate and manage the project across its lifecycle. Specifically, the objectives are to manage the project across and budget agreements as set in the Grant Agreement and in accordance with EC guidelines and requirements; Carry out effective management, including management of collected sensitive data (adherence with GDPR), and close monitoring of all activities within the project’s framework; Facilitate cooperation between consortium participants; Monitor and adjust the scientific and technical implementation plan; Establish an internal system for communication and a platform for the exchange of data and IPR management plan; Ensure the creation of a robust system and safeguard the work of the project and its generated outcomes.
WP2: (a) Identify stakeholder requirements, engage relevant actors, and assess their needs to guide project activities. (b) Address inclusivity, comfort, health aspects, and accessibility in sustainable renovation practices. The latter integrates DeCO2’s approach to measure meaningful impact on people, the environment, and climate neutrality in EU societies and economies, supported by user-cycle and LCA studies.
WP3: (a) Define the technical requirements for the integration of DeCO2 components; (b) finetune and adapt the DeCO2 digital tools on local and regional material flows; (c) establish circular workflows for AEC professionals; (d) digitalise the circular decarbonisation renovation process through digital twins (e) provide a customized integrated dynamic decarbonization framework for renovation, that pursues more local/nearby production. Integrate the DeCO2 digital and physical systems into a dynamic renovation framework.
WP4: (a) Implement and evaluate fast-tracking sustainable renovation solutions in deconstruction, re-use, construction demonstrators to showcase decarbonisation pathways through re-designing of products, services; (b) Evaluation and Replication Strategies (post-occupancy, LCA, upscaling).
WP5: WP5 complements WP2 and WP4 and aims at understanding what conditions are needed to expedite the desired transition of innovative ideas from research (TRL 6-8) to market. The consortium will utilise regulatory sandboxes, collaborate with SSH, standardisation and certification experts to identify barriers and enabling conditions within controlled testing environments for innovation pathways. Research includes customer needs analysis, refinement of value propositions, and alignment of solutions with market demand, whilst ensuring ethical and human considerations are central to sustainable solution development, based on WP2 to 4. A pivotal focus of this WP is to streamline the validation process for requisite qualities, leading to expedited approval procedure (UGR-L).
WP6: (a) Develop a Communication Dissemination and Exploitation Plan for an effective communication and dissemination strategy to ensure large uptake and coverage of the project achievements and effective utilisation of the project results. (b) Enhance knowledge on project outcomes by sharing and re-shaping results from WP2-WP5. (c) Share best practices and lessons-learnt (in several languages) in an easy-to-understand format (infographics, policy and summary briefings, etc.) with support from the WPs leaders; (d) Create synergies with other projects and initiatives; (e) Contribute, upon invitation by the CINEA, to common information and dissemination activities to increase the visibility and synergies between Horizon Europe supported actions.
