Ecological and Innovative technologies for recovering industrial areas from LCA and Energy Efficiency point of view Erasmus Project

Project Title

Ecological and Innovative technologies for recovering industrial areas from LCA and Energy Efficiency point of view

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Environment and climate change; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

CONTEXT/BACKGROUND
The rapidly growing world energy use has already raised concerns in developed and developing countries, the environmental regulations are becoming stricter and this is noted in the recent European Directives which aware the need for reducing environmental impacts and to increase energy efficiency. It is well known that the construction industry is one of the major responsible of the environmental damages, buildings construction sectors are responsible for 36% of the global final energy consumption and nearly 40% of total direct and indirect CO2 emissions, so to manage these is important to start to calculate these emissions and the environment impact for both new and existing buildings.
Industrial sites employ energy-intensive systems to heat, ventilate, air condition, light, and otherwise support processes and personnel, these support functions consume up to 33% of all energy used in manufacturing sub-sectors. As the industrial buildings play a major role in the use of energy and natural resources, it is necessary to start to implement in the educational sector the carbon footprint, studies about the materials efficiency of the industrial areas through the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and the use of renewable energy sources to satisfy the energy demand of the industrial constructions for facilities and industrial processes. The need for energy restoration of the industrial buildings will highly help to implement in a pedagogical way the use of the new technologies such as thermography cameras, laser scanners and drones, in the energy efficiency combined with BIM (Building Information Modelling) and LCA.

OBJECTIVES
The RecoverIND project will deepen the interconnection between energy efficiency, LCA and the use of advanced technologies for building and rehabilitation projects from the construction sector with the upgrading needs of knowledge in the educational sector. To contribute to overcome the situation described above, the main objectives of RecoverIND are:
– Strengthen the awareness about the environmental impacts and climate change.
– Producing a useful tool for discerning between the suitability of rehabilitation or the rebuilding of an old industrial building.
– Introducing the new technologies of energetic rehabilitation in industrial buildings at educational level.
– Providing information among interdisciplinary of new technologies of data acquisition, BIM and LCA.
– Improving the energy efficiency of industrial buildings.
– Free access to OER platform of RecoverIND to agents involved in the construction sector (students, teachers, researchers, enterprises, AEC professionals, etc.).

PARTICIPANTS
The project target to which RecoverIND is addressed are:
– People of the construction and the technological sector at public and private level, who are low, intermediate and high skilled, who need to improve their skills for professional growth and to get more chances to find a new job or keep their job (at VET level, BIM Modelling).
– SMEs of the construction sector willing to improve their competitiveness.
– Employment centres dealing with updating of skills and active labour market policies.
– Policy and decision makers responsible for the definition and the implementation at local and regional level of employment and labour market policies.
– Researchers of national and international research organizations and other universities dealing with energy issues.
– Universities and VET.
– Public bodies.
– Engineering and architecture companies / Technology providers.

PRODUCTS
The main results of the project are:
01. Establishment of common learning outcomes on industrial areas restoration with new technologies, LCA and relative regulations.
02. RecoverIND Interactive Flashcards.
03. RecoverIND Open Education Rerource (OER).

ACTIVITIES
The RecoverIND consortium is made up of highly qualified staff with experience in other European projects and who have fundamental knowledge in the following vital areas for this project:
• Environment and energy efficiency.
• New technologies for rapid data acquisition.
• Develop of training materials and ITC based tools.
• Experience in coordination of ERASMUS+ projects.
• High capacity for disseminating of the project.

RESULTS
The climate change is a global problem so the transnationally is evident and all the European countries must adapt its national regulations with EU directives which are aligned to this challenge of saving energy and reduce of environmental impacts and, therefore, the environmental impact. Transnational cooperation within this project aims to improve the quality of training systems by developing innovative content, methods and procedures, and the experience of universities in this consortium in establishing a common curriculum.
RecoverIND is driving the transition to this sustainable industrial society by transforming environmental problems into opportunities to use new and advanced technologies.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 179082 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITATEA TRANSILVANIA DIN BRASOV & Country: RO

Project Partners

• Fundatia pentru Formare Profesionala si Invatamant Preuniversitar Viitor
• ASOCIACION EMPRESARIAL DE INVESTIGACION CENTRO TECNOLOGICO DEL MARMOL Y LA PIEDRA
• UNIVERSIDAD DE SEVILLA
• POLITECHNIKA POZNANSKA
• ASOCIATIA ROMANIA GREEN BUILDING COUNCIL
• Zespol Szkol Budownictwa Nr 1