Towards BIM Bio-based Buildings Erasmus Project

Project Title

Towards BIM Bio-based Buildings

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 vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

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

The ToB3 project has 9 partners:
– 4 universities: Polytechnic University of Valencia, University of Calabria, University of Liège, University of Strasbourg
– a local authority: Grand Besançon Métropole
– an association of local authorities: Energia Calabria
– a company: the architecture agency L’atelier des Montaines
– a professional federation: the companion federation of building trades
– a public service carrying the project: the GIP FTLV

The ToB3 project is part of the European context of training construction stakeholders, more specifically on the use of BIM (Building Information Modeling) in eco-construction. Initially, the eco-construction concept primarily concerned wood construction, in particular due to the presence of Latvian partners and the evolution of rules on the authorized heights (and the number of floors) of buildings integrating mostly wood.

Over the course of the project (and with the entry of the partners from Liège and Strasbourg after the departure of the Latvian partners), the reflection widened to the circular economy in the building, a broader theme and of which eco-construction is a component. It paid particular attention to the challenge of developing the reuse of materials from deconstruction / renovation sites, both as a practice on the site but also as a sector to emerge in the territories.

Throughout the project, ToB3 pursued the objective of showing how BIM and the circular economy reinforce each other in collaborative approaches organizing all stakeholders. The end-of-study work of Amélie Hallbach, then a Master’s student at the Faculty of Architecture in Liège, is quite symbolic of what the project sought to clarify and promote.

The initial objectives of ToB3 were to develop inter-professional exchanges between:

– BIM trainers (teachers, trainers, public and private BIM referents), by making the BIM GAME training platform a platform for exchanges (pedagogical strategies and methods);
– the actors involved in a sustainable construction approach, carriers of innovation in the field of eco-construction,
– local authorities in partner countries (municipalities, regional structures, etc.) engaged in the energy transition and wishing to integrate the BIM approach into their specifications.

They were achieved in particular by:
– The holding of three BIM Game tests during three transnational meetings (Besançon, Valencia, Strasbourg) and with students from the universities of Calabria, Liège, Besançon, Strasbourg and Cuenca.
– The organization of numerous conferences given by building professionals on renovation and construction sites during the meetings in Rende, Brussels, Liège, Strasbourg, Besançon and the EUBIM 2019 congress in Valencia.
– The creation of a BIM Master at the University of Calabria.
– The creation of a pilot project in the circular economy with regional influence in Besançon (renovation of university buildings).

Finally, the project aimed to strengthen territorial cohesion between regions of Europe, through the exchange of practices and know-how. Thus, the involvement of partners from the regions of northern and southern Europe has made it possible to compare the tools and methods implemented in different socio-economic, climatic and cultural contexts to meet the challenge of energy transition in the construction sectors and to support the rise of BIM.

The central objective of the project was to strengthen the capacity of actors to articulate the use of digital tools in their professional practices, in harmony (and not in opposition) with the know-how constituting the specific identity of each profession, in a context of work focused on the environmental issue.
In a period where uses, regulations and the market are changing rapidly, the circular economy, notably based on the reuse or recycling of materials, opens up new perspectives in terms of innovation and sharing of values.
The audience of the meetings organized by ToB3 was diverse: business leaders, town planners, architects, teacher-researchers, education and training professionals, students, representatives of professional federations, elected officials and technicians. of local authorities.

The transnational aspect was essential to the achievement of the objectives, through the exchange of practices between different professional and cultural contexts, exchanges which were able to unite the partners around a shared vision.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 132875 Eur

Project Coordinator

GIP FTLV Franche-Comté & Country: FR

Project Partners

• UNIVERSITA DELLA CALABRIA
• Energia Calabria
• Communauté d’Agglomération du Grand Besançon
• RIGAS TEHNISKA UNIVERSITATE
• Fédération Nationale CompagnonniquE
• ARCHITECTURE ATELIER DES MONTAINES
• LATVIAN WOOD CONSTRUCTION CLUSTER