Contact person(s):
Adrienn Kökösy-Németh – nemeth.adrienn@vasmegye.hu
Krisztina Rimányi – rimanyi.krisztina@vasmegye.hu

Program website:

Rebuilt - Circular and digital of central Europe construction and building sector

Construction is a major contributor to resource consumption, waste generation and greenhouse gas emissions. For this reason, the transition to a circular economy in the construction sector is encouraged, which has a significant impact on the well-being of Central European society and increases the efficiency of resources. The current state of innovation ecosystems for circular and digital construction varies significantly from region to region in Central Europe. Some regions already have good practices in the use of recycled materials, established administrative procedures, such as the criteria for ending the status of waste, others are in the phase of the first steps in the direction of circular and digital construction.

There are common gaps, such as a general dislike of products based on secondary raw materials; data on the quality of products based on secondary raw materials and their traceability (flows of waste to products); lack of administrative or legal channels for product reuse; lack of good practices of circular economy business models; lack of a transnational training program for professionals. Project ReBuilt, founded by Interreg Central Europe, is introducing new solutions and encouraging the adoption of circular and digital practices in the education curriculum, which will help reduce the environmental impact of the construction sector.

Slovenian national building and civil engineering institute (ZAG) from Slovenia is leading 14 project partners from Slovenia, Italy, Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Czech Republic, and Germany and 6 associated partners from Slovenia, Hungary, and Germany, who are aware that the adoption of circular and digital practices can help reduce the sector's impact on the environment.

The partners will contribute to the goals and results of the ReBuilt project: i) increase the awareness and attractiveness of circular and digital construction by developing a new educational program; ii) upgrade, development and testing of new, pilot technical and digital solutions and measures, including green labelling, end-of-waste status and green public procurement; iii) creation of the first Central European strategy for circular and digital construction, which will be implemented through a network of regional circular and digital construction centres. The achievements and results of the project will support the further development of construction in Central Europe, taking into account the peculiarities of the regional and urban/rural environment.

LEAD PARTNER:

• Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute (SI)

Project partnership:

• Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Štajerska (SI)
• Nigrad, civil engineering company, d.o.o. (SI)
• Opencontent SCARL (IT)
• INFORDATA SISTEMI SRL (IT)
• Technical University of Vienna (AT)
• POR Consult, Projects of Sustainable Development, d.o.o. (HR)
• BURST Nonprofit Llc (HU)
• Vas County Government Office (HU)
• Institute of Construction and architecture, Slovak Academy of Sciences (SK)
• Industry Innovation Cluster (SK)
• The Institute for Ecology of Industrial Areas (PL)
• Czech Green Building Council (CZ)
• Munich University of Applied Sciences MUAS (DE)

Associated partners:

• European Cultural and Technological Center Maribor, so.e., Slovenija (SI)
• Regional Development Agency for the Podravje Region – Maribor, Slovenija (SI)
• Republic of Slovenia Ministry of Economic Development and Technology, Slovenija (SI)
• Hungary Green Building Council (HU)
• Vas County Chamber of Architects (HU)
• City of Munich, Building Department – Building Construction H31, Deutschland (DE)
• Ettengruber GmbH Recycling, Deutschland (DE)

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