GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

Proposals should:

• Investigate innovative approaches for industrialised deep renovation, covering the whole workflow from design through to offsite manufacture, installation, compliance checking on site and end strategies for maintenance, operation and end of life.
• Make use of innovative processes and technologies, including those delivered by previous research such as design based on circularity principles, prefabricated components and digital tools, that allow to optimise workflows.
• Develop significantly improved integrated digital twin solutions that can support all stakeholders involved in the different phases of the construction or renovation processes.
• Demonstrate a seamless integration of the proposed approaches with state-of-the-art digital technologies for construction and renovation.
• Investigate the use of robotic systems and automation such as additive manufacturing, on-site automated and robotic systems and other types of automated support to augment workers’ capability and safety for deep renovation.
• Investigate the application of the proposed approaches at neighbourhood- and district-level, with the aim to maximise synergies in renovation work and processes, decrease costs, and to optimise the use of energy-related shared district resources.
• Select processes and technologies that have a maximum potential for rapid and broad deployment at European level, with due consideration of the sector’s practices.
• Ensure effective involvement of the buildings supply chain, in particular SMEs, as well as of building owners/tenants and other relevant stakeholders.
• Where relevant, investigate whether and how the proposed approaches could apply to cultural heritage buildings.
• Ensure the proposed approaches allow to reach the highest level of energy performance, also considering other relevant aspects, while keeping costs in an attractive range for owners.
• Seek to ensure from the design phase that the project is developed with a view to integrate its results/deliverables under a digital building logbook.
• Demonstrate, based on well-defined metrics and key performance indicators, that the innovative approaches proposed lead to fewer mistakes, less waste, higher resource efficiency, higher quality in particular with regard to energy performance, increased replicability across sites, and other relevant life cycle aspects, enhanced safety of workers and their ability to work alongside robots, and faster construction.
• Investigate business models in view of mass deployment and EU-wide impact, seeking to address split of incentives between the owner and tenant of a building as a barrier to investments.
• Lead at least 3 large-scale demonstration to assess the proposed approaches for a variety of buildings typologies representative of the European building stock, ensuring the most adequate coverage of climatic conditions.