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SECTOR GROUP
SUSTAINABLE
CONSTRUCTION
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EDITORIAL
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 I am proud to present the 13th edition
of our newsletter, which has been timed so
that it is available in synchronization with
the Matchmaking Event taking place
during the International Textile
conference in Aachen on 29th &
30th of November 2018.
This conference is considered as one of the
most important textile conferences in Europe
with approximately 600 participants.
Starting in 2016, each of these three cities
(Aachen-Dresden-Denkendorf) takes it in turn
to host the International Textile Conference
on a yearly rotation basis.
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R+T
The main topics of the conference
are:
• Materials, Chemistry, Finishing &
Functionalization
• Textile Machinery, Manufacturing,
Composites with Plenary Talks and Special
Symposia on
• Functionalization and New Materials
• Textile Machinery and New Technologies
• Trends & New Markets in the Field of
Building & Construction
• Trends & New Markets in the Field of
Medical Textiles
• Transfer-Session: R&D projects in small
and medium-sized enterprises
One might wonder why the sustainable
construction sector group is interested to
participate in a textile conference. The
answer is easy: 'Turning Fibers into
Valuable Construction Material' is what
we are aiming for.
This is the first year that the Enterprise
Europe Network is organising an
International Brokerage Event during the
Textile conference in Aachen. Below you may
find some interesting profiles submitted to
the B2B platform. This Matchmaking event is
organised in collaboration with both the
Sustainable Construction Sector Group and
the Textile and Fashion Sector Group.
Taking this opportunity, the two sectors
groups are organising a joint meeting during
the conference as well, in order to
investigate the possibility of further
collaborations with fruitful results.
A prize will be given to the member bringing
the most interesting and innovative item or
material which combines both textiles and
construction. So start searching for
something to surprise us and get the
creative-co-operative energy flowing!!!!
For those of you who are still looking for
ideas, do not forget to read the
Inspiration Articles below. This time we
have not one, but two inspiration articles.
One article from Brussels, on student
housing using Cross Laminated Timber (CLT).
This is an impressive mix of conserved
buildings and new constructions around a
large landscaped garden, which respects the
neoclassic architecture of the already
existing buildings, using at the same time
the sustainable and pioneering properties of
CLT.
The second inspiration article is about a
cultural Journey in China. Are you a
European SME in the construction machinery
industry looking to understand new supplier
or customer relationships in China? If yes,
then read this article and get motivated!!!
For extra inspiration and boost, our
Technology Article coming from Germany
is top of the pops!! State-of-the art
vegetation for buildings and urban
landscapes is what is needed in a city with
dense construction.
Don’t forget to have a look at the other
Matchmaking Events organised by the
sustainable construction sector group, as
well as our Research Successes, which are
something we are very proud of.
I am looking forward to seeing you at one of
our events !!
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MEET US AT THE INTERNATIONAL TEXTILE CONFERENCE 2018
Participants the Matchmaking Event:
Meet@ International Textile Conference 2018
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29 - 30 Nov 2018 / Aachen, Germany
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INSPIRATION ARTICLES
Cité du Centenaire: energy retrofit and
neighborhood urban renewal
Woodskot: Student housing using Cross
Laminated Timber (CLT), an innovative
material in new construction projects.
An impressive mix of conserved buildings and
new constructions around a large landscaped
garden, to obtain a hundred or so student
housing with common areas and 8 social
housing units. This is the project designed
by ÁRTER Architects in Brussels. |
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Contact
Person: Simon Claeys
Environmental Director
Stoofstraat 30 Rue de
l’Etuve, Brussel 1000 Bruxelles
Tel.: +32 (0) 2 513 77 95
info@arter.be - www.arter.be
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Free mission to China for the construction and
mechanisation sectors
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A group of European furniture
manufacturers, looking to expand their
markets to east Asia, travelled to
Guangzhou in China to visit one of the
largest furniture fairs in the region.
Translated business cards in hand, this
group spread out across the floor to
talk with potential distributors and
partners. Much to shock of a few of the
small companies in the group, they found
exact replicas of their European-made
products. |
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SUCCESSFUL RESEARCH
PROJECTS
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Launch of the STUNNING Renovation Hub:
EU platform for energy-efficient
refurbishment technologies and business
models
 The EU-funded, Horizon 2020 project
STUNNING, which promotes the accelerated
adoption of successful business models
for energy-efficient building
refurbishments, launched the STUNNING
Renovation Hub in September 2018. It is
a virtual platform for interactive
knowledge exchange and enables all
participating stakeholders to share
knowledge and experiences through
accessing and submitting articles on
their innovative refurbishment packages,
replicable business models and case
studies on the successful implementation
of their energy-efficient refurbishment.
For further information please visit our
STUNNING project website and the newly
launched site of the Renovation Hub.
Contact Person: Franziska Bergmann
Project Manager
Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum/Steinbeis 2i
GmbH
Steinhäuserstr. 12
76135 Karlsruhe
E-Mail: bergmann@steinbeis-europa.de
Tel: +49 721 93519 118
Fax: +49 721 93519 120
https://www.steinbeis-europa.de
https://www.steinbeis2i.de |
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KET4CleanProduction (KET4CP)
 Clean production processes are a key
success factor and competitive
advantage. The KET4CleanProduction
(KET4CP) project funded by the European
Commission has addressed this issue: By
promoting the use of advanced
manufacturing technologies and related
key enabling technologies (KET), the aim
is to make the production processes of
small and medium-sized enterprises
(SMEs) cleaner and more
energy-efficient.
Stay up-to-date at all times!
Subscribe to our KET4CP Newsletter:
https://www.ket4sme.eu/
Follow us on Twitter (@KET4CP) and
LinkedIn (/company/ket4cp/)!
Write to info@ket4sme.eu or contact us:
Dr. Kristin Dallinger | Steinbeis 2i
GmbH | Stuttgart |
dallinger@steinbeis-europa.de
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TRAINEE: Towards market-based skills for
SustAINable Energy Efficient
construction
 The project “TowaRd market-based skills
for sustAINable Energy Efficient
construction” is EU funded project under
HORIZON 2020 programme, topic:
Construction skills, Type of action: CSA
Coordination and support action. Overall
objective is to increase the number of
skilled building professionals according
to recommendations from National
qualification roadmap:
http://buildupskills.mk/images/Publikacii/Roadmap/EN_Roadmap_BUS-MK.pdf),
concerning two priorities, training of
4.500 building professionals and blue
collar workers and overcoming barriers
for implementation of EE measures in
operation and maintenance.
Contact Person: Irena Mojsovska,
Independent Advisor
Directorate оf Branch Associations and
Regional Chambers,
Economic Chamber of Macedonia
Str. Dimitrie Chupovski 13,
Skopje, Macedonia
T. ( +389) 23 24 40 09
F. ( +389) 23 24 40 88
M: ( +389) 70 277 849
E. irena@mchamber.mk
W. www.mchamber.mk
f. www.facebook.com/chamber.mk
t. www.twitter.com/Chamber_MK
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FINERPOL: New ways of
financing building retrofits
Inspirational best practice in the field
of energy renovations of buildings
including the buildings from the Czech
Republic have made it into an online
tool Finermap. The tool enables owners
and managers of public and private
buildings, representatives of
municipalities and SMEs to quickly and
intuitively find interesting forms of
financing from non-subsidy financial
instruments.
Contact Person: Magda Drholcova
Department of Foreign Affairs
Brno Regional Chamber of Commerce
Enterprise Europe Network Brno
Výstaviště 1, 648 04 Brno
Czech Republic
Tel.: +420 532 194 932
Email: drholcova@rhkbrno.cz
www.rhkbrno.cz
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COUNTRY ROFILE -
Campania and Puglia
ENEA, as member of
Enterprise Europe Network
within Bridgeconomies
Consortium, operates in
Campania and Puglia regions
located in the South of
Italy.
In the Country, over 65% of
constructions have been
built before 1970-80, when
very little was ruled by
national law about energy
efficiency and
sustainability in general.
There is therefore a great
potential to operate in the
field.
This is the reason why
several universities and
research centers focus their
research activities in
sustainable constructions,
either in terms of
environmental impact of
materials and methodologies
used in the construction
process, either in terms of
sustainability in the
building utilization, as for
example, energy efficiency.
The same applies to several
companies that are
developing research and
business in the field for
the same reasons.
In Campania and Puglia, the
two regions where ENEA, as
member of EEN, operates,
there is a very active
innovation ecosystem.
In Campania, as an example,
there are:
• 7 universities, (6 public
and one private) with over
12 thousand researchers and
teachers and 180K students
• 40 advanced research
centers active in technology
transfer and innovation
services
• 7 High-Tech Districts and
21 public private
laboratories operating in
the regional strategic
fields where sustainable
construction is one of the
most relevant.
• 25 structures to support
entrepreneurship
(incubators, science and
technology parks, Fab lab,
accelerators and service
centers)
Città della Scienza, one of
the largest european Science
& Business Centres
1 billion euro invested in
Research and Innovation
Policies (+Digital Agenda)
2014-2020
Puglia, on the other hand,
is a leading Region in the
production of clean energy,
holding first place in the
production of wind and
photo-voltaic energy and
third in bio-energies.
The Region is also part of a
sustainable urban planning.
Apulian construction
companies are, in fact,
incentivized to build
structures that are
increasingly energy
efficient and that have a
progressively lesser impact
on the landscape, achieved
in part through the use of
natural materials of local
origin.
A Apulian Sustainable
Construction Business
Cluster has been recently
established to develop
sustainable construction in
Puglia and to promote
production quality in the
market. The strategic aims
are to strengthen the
relationship between firms
and public agencies; to
stimulate engineering
quality through
environmental impact
reduction and finally to
promote technological
research and innovation. The
cluster also operates to
broaden the market,
targeting products and
services with higher added
value. In addition, it
facilitates the development
of new professional profiles
able to disseminate
sustainability in
construction and urban
development. The cluster
includes: 165 companies, 10
research centers and
universities, 11 training
schools, 24 agencies,
associations, professional
orders and financial credit
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LINKS TO OTHER SGS
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The Autumn Sustainable Construction
Sector Group Meeting will be co-organised
together with the SG Textile and Fashion in
Aachen, Germany on the 29th and 30th of
November 2018.
The two SGs will meet together on the 29th
in order to investigate possibilities of
collaboration with regard to smart textiles
used for construction applications.
On the 30th of November the two SGs will
co-organise a Brokerage event, which will
take place within the International Textile
Conference that is realized in Aachen. This
is the first time that a B2B is organised in
parallel to this conference.
This annual conference is considered to be
one of the most important textile
conferences in Europe with over 600
participants. Since 2016, the German
Institutes of Textile and Fiber Research,
Denkendorf (DITF) is also a co-organizer.
Thus, the International Textile Conference
takes place in one of the following cities:
Aachen, Dresden, Denkendorf on a yearly
alternating basis. In 2018 the Conference
will take place in Aachen.
Gregor Stolarczyk, who is our host for this
meeting, has already made arrangements for
all the Sustainable Construction SG and
Textile SG members to enter the conference
without charge.
The topics of the Conference are: Materials,
Chemistry, Finishing & Functionalization
Textile Machinery, Manufacturing,
Composites.
During the conference there will be Plenary
Talks and Special Symposia on:
- Functionalization and New Materials
- Textile Machinery and New Technologies
- Trends and New Markets
- Textiles for Medicine and Health Care
- Textiles for Building and Construction
In this particular joint SG meeting and B2B,
we would like to investigate the
possibilities of new and innovative textiles
that can be used for construction. The
participants will be asked to bring with
them samples of smart textiles with
applications in the construction sector.
Alternatively, they could also present, in a
ppt presentation, company products with
textiles that can be used in the building
sector to improve building performance.
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SECTOR GROUP
MEMBERS
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Attached you'll find all of our Sector
Group Members.
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Sector Group
Sustainable Construction |
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